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Law academic (UTS), PhD (UNSW). I focus on Climate Change and (its impacts on) the Australian Constitution.
May 30, 2022 12 tweets 3 min read
How might Climate Change hurt our Constitution?

🧵👇 First, our Constitutional System is not floating around separate from the Australian Eco-System. It exists within, and is dependent upon, this Eco-System.

If this Eco-System collapses, so too does the Constitutional System built within it.
Jul 10, 2018 6 tweets 3 min read
Gough Whitlam was born 102 yrs ago today. Here's what he did:
- Introduced universal healthcare
- & no-fault divorce
- & Racial Discimination Act
- & Trade Practices Act
- & Family Court
- & Legal Aid
- Made unis free
- Sewered poor suburbs
- Ended (Cth) death penalty
#auspol /1 - Scrapped the draft
- Started relations with China
- Forbid ‘whites only’ sports teams
- Voted for sanctions on apartheid South Africa at UN
- Scrapped White Australia policy
- Established Multiculturalism policy
- Got France to stop Nuclear tests nearby
#auspol /2