WilliamsGeorge and HumeDavid, People Power: The History and Future of the Referendum in Australia (UNSW Press, 2010) 246–52.
2.
Expert Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Australians, Recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in the Constitution (January 2012) <http://www.youmeunity.org.au/finalreport> xix.
3.
MacklinJenny, ‘Handover of the Report of the Panel on Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ (Speech made at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 19 January 2012) <http://www.jennymacklin.fahcsia.gov.au/node/1699>.
4.
See, eg, LeighleyJan E, ‘Attitudes, Opportunities and Incentives: A Field Essay on Political Participation’ (1995) 48(1) Political Research Quarterly181.
5.
See, eg, Senate Standing Committee on Employment Education and Training, Parliament of Australia, Education for Active Citizenship (1989) 12.
6.
Ibid.
7.
Cited in KrinksKate, ‘Creating the Active Citizen? Recent Developments in Civics Education’ (Research Paper No 15, Parliamentary Library, Parliament of Australia, 1998).
8.
See, eg, VromenAriadne, ‘“People Try to Put Us Down…”: Participatory Citizenship of “Generation X”’ (2003) 38(1) Australian Journal of Political Science79; HarrisAnita and WynJohanna, ‘Young People's Politics and the Micro-Territories of the Local’ (2009) 44(2) Australian Journal of Political Science327.
9.
Cited in Senate Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training, above n 5, 9.
10.
Civics Expert Group, Whereas the People: Civics and Citizenship Education (1994) 47; Krinks, above n 7.
11.
GowDavidBeanClive and McAllisterIan, Australian Constitutional Referendum Study, 1999 (Social Science Data Archives, 2000). I have weighted the data (using the tool provided in the data set) to ensure that my findings are nationally representative of the electorate.
12.
This wording is a shortened version of the actual option given to participants in the ACRS survey, which read: ‘He can decide whether or not to dismiss the government’. While accepting that it is difficult to express complex concepts in the simple terms required by surveys, this statement would have been more accurate had it made clear that the Governor-General's ‘reserve power’ to act in this way can only be exercised in exceptional circumstances which are themselves the subject of controversy.
13.
Williams and Hume, above n 1, 193.
14.
Australian Electoral Commission (AEC), 1997 Convention Election Report and Statistics (1998) 62.
15.
Harris and Wyn, above n 8, 337.
16.
National Australia Day Council, Australia Consults 1996 (1996) and Australia Consults 1997: The Big Conversation (1997).
17.
Letter from SmithTony to SaundersCheryl, 3 February 1998: Records of the Constitutional Centenary Foundation, National Library of Australia, MS Acc01/64, 6.7.2 (69).
18.
See, eg, Evaluation Summary, ACT Schools Constitutional Convention 1998: Records of the CCF, NLA, MS Acc01/64, 6.2.7 (95).
19.
See in particular the Panel's proposal to repeal section 25, to replace the existing ‘race’ power with a specific head of power with respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and to insert a prohibition against racial discrimination: Expert Panel, above n 2, xviii.
