“ Two former judges have questioned whether the final batch of Morrison government appointments to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal breached the Constitution by reappointing members well before their terms expired.
Keith Mason, KC, a former president of the NSW Court of Appeal, and Leslie Katz, SC, a former Federal Court justice, say there are “serious questions” about the validity of some appointments – announced in April – that could even affect the rights of litigants in the AAT.”

“ afr

Daves2017 wrote on Dec 24^th, 2025 at 6:28pm:


No, you are answering my questions about alleged breeches of the constitution, alleged breeches which are yet to be proven.  Tsk, tsk, tsk...

Daves2017 wrote on Dec 24^th, 2025 at 6:48pm:

Dead right. It clashes with 'Guy Fawkes in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot, an attempt led by Robert Catesby to blow up King James I and Parliament, motivated by religious persecution. Fawkes, a devout soldier with expertise in explosives, was tasked with guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder under the House of Lords'.

Fawkes wished to communicate his political opinion in the form of compressed air at only 2,000,000 kPa as the room volume reduced maximum explosive force. Most Lords are going deaf so this was not a significant problem but they would have noticed 36 barrels. 

Daves2017 wrote on Dec 24^th, 2025 at 4:32pm:

The referendum is not an act of parliament giving Cwlth authority over State law.  A referendum is not binding to compel a law being made and less so for a State, if the referendum is given to the Cwlth.
'Commercial treaties first emerged in the 17th century and were agreements made between the European fur trading companies and the local First Nations. The Hudson's Bay Company, a British trading company located in what is now Northern Ontario, signed numerous commercial treaties during this period.'
They don't have to be by sovereign nations.

Brian Ross wrote on Dec 24^th, 2025 at 10:20pm:


Merry Christmas Brian to you and your family.

Now back to hostilities 🤣

“ Confirmed and Potential 2025 Constitutional Breaches”

“ my quote from my post above from AI.

Please read the “Confirmed “ part.

Unfortunately when the  Governor general is both your best friend and your just gave them a huge pay rise it becomes very difficult for them to act impartial and  do their job properly!

I got go to work  now and try and help people tripping out on drugs get home without the police being called in and they wake up tomorrow in the watch house.

A lot of tired and exhausted and emotional people around ATM

I will check back during the course of the  night.

I will say that Australia's political future is more like a Yugoslavia, hopefully without the violence, than a Unification.

The Political power base will be the reversal of northern hemisphere politics like you see in Great Britain and USA which moves upwards to a single individual.

Instead, it goes downwards from an individual like a weak PM & GG to be spread out for the mass. That is - the People at large. The Common Wealth of the common people.

So in essence, the true political power will be at the Shire level which hold the power within a multitude of 'independent nations' like...
Cape York
Capricornia
Riverina
Orara
Orana
Monaro
Sydney
Avalon
Hunter
New England
Gippsland
Canberra
Wimmera
Goulburn Valley
Ngarkat
St Vincent
Eyre
Centralia
Pitjantjatjara
Arnhem
Kimberly
Pilbara
Stirling
...and more.

These will of course come together at times upon a continental level when in need against continental threats. But the strength of the Australian DOMESTIC ECONOMY will be from trade between these nations due to the differences between them and what they have to offer.

Unlike Great Britain & USA. Australia never really had to unify. It was already just one big One Nation of same sameness everywhere and with everyone.
Through the States though, difference in Cultures began to emerge like Rugby League in NSW and Aussie Rules in Victoria. Crossing the border was becoming a whole new experience to be enjoyed. Australia was moving away from being one big boring land mass.

But then, around 2000, it was obvious that Australia had regressed backwards with Aussie Rules in Sydney, League in Melbourne and basically the States had become more or less the same sameness of a One Nation selling snow to a snowman. Even with a Political Party having emerged like a Go Fund Me for a Media depending individual, as a retardation back in time.
The rednecks of Sydney were in Melbourne and the Gays of Melbourne were in Sydney but proving to be a negative, rather than a cultural positive.

During COVID Lockdown - we saw a glimmer of State identity emerge in differences and a Domestic Economy BOOM to be #1 in the world at that time until the Australian umbrella Federal level forced the States to lock down internally also like ghost towns shut for business.

Still, despite Australia's current One Nation of mediocre boring same sameness of everywhere at once.
There is still that individual regional independent cultures kicking along.
Like the accent of the Adelaide (St Vincent) area where it is distinctly different to anywhere else in Australia and the fashion of wearing Lanyards in the ACT and the cultural refusal of high rise buildings on the NSW southern coast.

When Prime Ministers through the decades have served the USA here
and Governor-Generals have served Great Britain here. Little wonder that the Shires are the true essence of serving the Australian people at its deepest level,
even if they are still being exploited by the One Nation Federal level in favour of the USA, Great Britain, China, the EU and more like millions of dollars siphoned and given to Hamas, Indonesia and more .