It seems like a very long time ago. OK, it was a very long time ago. The year was 1998 and a two-week Constitutional Convention was held in Canberra. There were 152 delegates, half of them were ‘elected’ by some dodgy postal ballot (less than 50 per cent of eligible voters bothered to send it back) and the other half were appointed.
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