Description - Constitutional Politics by John Warhurst
Constitutional Politics is a systematic reflection on the future and immediate past of the constitutional politics of the Republic issue. It is both a historical analysis of the main elements of the constitutional debates of the 1990s, concentrating on the 1999 Republic Referendum and the events surrounding it, and a forward-looking analysis of the political prospects of constitutional and republican reform in the twenty-first century and the major issues involved. It is the first comprehensive book on the subject.
Detached academic analysis is presented alongside personal statements by some of the most committed and important leaders of the political debates and campaigns, such as Kerry Jones (Australians for Constitutional Monarchy), Greg Barns (Australian Republic Movement), Ted Mack and Richard McGarvie.
As well as the content of constitutional politics, the book analyses a decade of public education by the Constitutional Centenary Foundation, the processes of the referendum itself, and the public deliberation experiments such as 'Australia Deliberates'. A range of views is offered, with contributors disagreeing over many issues, including the likelihood and timing of republican reform of the constitution.
John Warhurst has been an active registered supporter of the Australian Republican Movement since the early nineties while Malcolm Mackerras has been equivalently active with Australians for Constitutional Monarchy.
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