A favourite argument of the elites is that something is ‘inevitable’  or, more subtly, ‘the planets are aligned’.

Blasting what he dismisses as our ‘horse and buggy‘ constitution, Professor George Williams laments the lack of referendums. So, what even more pejorative term does he reserve for the much older  US constitution? Prehistoric?

The real reason we don’t have referendums today is activist judges have awarded Canberra the very powers the people denied them, in some cases five times.