This just sounds like a list of ideas dreamed up in a humanities department canteen at some out of touch inner city Uni.

If your going call for a new Constitution I'd want to see better argument then this one. Exactly what is being stopped by our constitution?

A bill of rights has more to do with full employment for every grad of legal studies rather then any improvement in the average Bruce's life.

"Given thinking voters' low opinions of Australian politicians, they would never agree to interfering with or abolishing Sec 44. Anyone thinking otherwise is part of the wreck-the-joint mob."

How does that work out? These are obviously foreign and voted in :

Di Natale was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to Catholic Italian immigrant parents.
Xenophon (born Xenophou) was born in Adelaide, South Australia, to Theo Xenophou, from Cyprus, and Georgia, from Greece.
Penny Wong was born in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, to Jane (née Chapman) and Francis Wong a Malaysian Chinese of Hakka origin.

Well if folk are bothered by folks of foreign birth in the halls of power, why aren't they jumping in the rafters and or rattling the cage over the fact that those who penned our constitution were also foreigners! As is our head of state!

Our Constitution is older than my Dad's first car, a model T ford.

And out of its depth when asked to compete with my 1950's ford mustang.

As our Constitution would be if we had a new one, we Australians actually agreed to, before it became law! And what usually occurs in an alleged democracy!

This current constitution was one imposed on us, without our informed consent! Why? Because we were a former penal colony chock full of convict descendants/white trash and better than we lowlifes/cannon fooder, deserved.

Given we have so few real rights accorded to us by this archaic document, imposed on us from without, by foreign penmen. We need some serious penmanship applied, so the intent and purpose of the original document is at least preserved! That intent, along with our rights, properly codified!

And wouldn't then be troubled by a few folks born in former British colonies, that share our head of state!

Serving in our parliament, because they stood before us. Argued their case and like One Nation's Senator Roberts, won the ballot, on merit and the flow of preferences! Hard to ask for fairer than that!

Even if a few malcontents, who possibly didn't bother to vote formal, got someone with a foreign parent!
Sob/whine! Alan B.

Our dear Malcolm has stated that US and Oz are joined at the hip which indicates where SSM is headed. He can then decide the big issues of the day in Parliament:

"The U.S. Constitution uses but does not define the phrase "natural born Citizen", .', meaning born of citizen parents. Every president was born in the United States; , there have been seven that had at least one parent who was not born on U.S. soil.. experts have suggested that the precise meaning .. can be decided only by Congress rather than by the judicial branch of government.
Barack Obama was born in 1961 in Hawaii US . his father was a British subject from British Kenya. Indiana Court of Appeals stated," persons born within the borders of the United States are 'natural born Citizens' , regardless of the citizenship of their parents."

Only Bill and Malcolm , joined at the lip , should decide who to adopt into their House.

If the selectors need new players when electricity shuts down and streets get blocked by tents, knives and needles they could look overseas for star pollies.
The current soccer transfer record was set by the transfer of Neymar from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain for €222 million (£198 million) on 3 August 2017.
rugby league current record fee was paid for Sam Tomkins, for whom the New Zealand Warriors paid £700,000 to the Wigan Warriors in 2013.
Giancarlo Stanton: Miami Marlins Baseball. 13 years (2014-2027) $325,000,000.

We definitely need a new Australian constitution and republicans should be working with the Treaty mob/Tent Embassy to develop something. We could redraw the boundaries along tribal areas in cooperation with Elders from the areas, have a new flag, a new anthem, a true democracy and a better, more egalitarian/Australian future.