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Democracy has long odds in a stacked house : Comments
By Scott Prasser, published 6/7/2009Executive power: unicameral parliaments cannot rely on watchdogs alone to guard against corruption.
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Those of us born before 1949, were born into a representative democracy, in every State except South Australia. It abolished representative democracy in 1927 when it gave its Judges absolute power, by abolishing civil juries. Representative democracy was abolished in New South Wales in 1970. When the Liberals created the Federal Court of Australia in 1976, it could be democratic, but was given a choice. It has never constituted itself as a court since its inception. A court is essential to a representative democracy.
A Judge is a State God. He or she is not a democrat. None of our Judges and Magistrates are either honest or democratic, and the word Judge does not appear in the Constitution. When the Parliament of the Commonwealth enacted s 268:10 Criminal Code Act 1995 ( Cth) so as to make it a twenty five years imprisonment offence to exercise ownership over another human being, Judges should have accepted their time was up. That is what a Judge does. He exercises ownership over another human being, and he or she is no less a criminal because the State has authorized this particular form of slavery.
Scot Prasser’s problem is that he has failed to remember there can only be One God, One Queen and One Nation in Australia, and until we work that out it is a miserable place, for so many of us. Kevin Rudd can fix homelessness. He has not as yet faced the fact that just throwing money around is not enough. He must assert the dominance of the Federal Government. Instead of having a one legged cripple as the Federal Court of Australia he should make it a democratic institution, that in the conduct of its business stops dealing exclusively in the private sector