TLDR: The Australian Constitution is a powerful document that Aussies are far too ignorant of. That ignorance has been actively fostered by corrupt forces in the nation, and now threatens our sovereignty at an unprecedented level. Learning about the Australian Constitution is key to us taking back our power from a corrupt governmental culture and their corrupt systems.
About 7 or 8 years ago, I used to be envious of the Americans, of the American constitution. For reasons I'm not certain of, around 2013, I became very interested in American history, specifically the American War of Independence and the emergence of the American Constitution, a revolutionary document in the history of mankind.
But in recent years, that sense of envy has morphed into something else; a much greater appreciation for the Australian Constitution. Developed in the late 1800's, the drafters of the Australian Constitution drew from the best elements of the American, British and Swiss (apparently) constitutions, and in itself is a revolutionary document.
Unlike that of our American brethren, however, our sovereignty and the constitution that enshrines it were not discovered or recovered in the fiery crucible of war, but rather were accomplished peaceably on the foundation of all the preceding wars and victories in the Anglo-Christian cultural sphere.
In other words, because we never had to physically fight for it (aside from the Eureka Stockade incident), our Constitution came to us without the same level of ethical and moral crystallization that the wars and conflicts in America and Britain and Europe engendered on those peoples.
And thanks to intervening years of corruption, malfeasance, fraud and treason by Australian politicians and the secret societies that infiltrated them, Australians do not know about our constitution.
We're ignorant. We have no idea what we have, or how powerful our constitution truly is. Truly, in this case as much or more than any other, that powerful Q-ism rings true for Australians:
You have more than you know. Q
Accordingly, I exhort all Ausanons to take up this challenge; learn your constitution. learn the law, and make the law work for you instead of against you.
(In the last 2 years, we've seen case after case dropped and overturned with regards to that so many of the the fines imposed by corrupt govt officials and their lackeys during covid19.)
So here is a starting point. This is how we begin to actually fight back, because everything they have done in the last several decades, culminating in the COVID19 social holocaust, is based on fraud and our ignorance.
And more generally: start here:
https://constitutionwatch.com.au/
Constitution Watch: If you can see through the illusion, you are part of the solution
EDIT: Addendum
Know Your Constitution II: The "Queen of Australia" Fiction & the Dissolution of the Commonwealth
We already know. This is why scomo kicked it to the states and relied upon social and economic ostracism to enforce their will.
The government doesn't give a fuck. They do what they want because they have the guns.
I think it's a bit more complex than that.
Firstly, there are kazillions of Australians who do NOT know.
Secondly, the government isn't a monolith. We have governments, federal and state and (unconstitutionally, local) and within them, there are factions, cliques, and agendas.
Thirdly, states cannot lawfully override the constitution. So yes, the play between the federal govt and the state governments was a shell game to outwit and bamboozle the population, but it doesn't mean it was lawful.
Well, yeah, although personally I would say "governments" rather than government. Also, it's actually the political class and the system they run, because technically, the opposition and any members of any parliament that are not in the executive are not the government.
That's not true. When was the last time any significant numbers of Aussies were forced into certain actions because guns were pointed at them, or even threatened them?
That's a cop out, in my opinion. They (the corrupt) do what they want because collectively, the people are ignorant, entranced and have been unwilling or unable to hold them to account.
The law is a gun. Every interaction with the government is by force. It's not voluntary. They get away with whatever they want because they have a monopoly on the initiation of force. Don't pay you taxes? Escalates to a gun. Don't wear your mask when legally required? It escalates to a gun.
Every law is a threat of violence if you don't comply, that's how it works. The only moral use of force is self defence, or defence of another, against the initiation of force, which is about 0.00001% of government laws. The rest of it is the government initiating force. Therefore the majority or the population is forced into certain actions every day.
It seems to me that what you are doing here is drawing out a philosophical argument. On that level, I agree with you that in the end, the law (now serving us) is enforced by force or the threat of force. On that level, you are right, although I don't agree that "every interaction with the government is .... not voluntary".
The argument can be made that the threat of force is used to coerce behavior, which ultimately may NOT not voluntary, but how many people stop when police pull them over and demand to see their ID, how many comply simply because they think that the police have the lawful right to do that? As opposed to thinking they do NOT have the right, but I'd better give them my ID because if I don't, they'll haul my ass off to jail?
See Bastiat: the Law.
My point however is that the use of force and the threat of force, used OUTSIDE the law and what is lawful, is accepted and tolerated by a form of willing compliance. They require consent, and they obtain people's consent via deception, ignorance and manipulation.
In the end, if you comply because of the threat of force, even when it is unlawful, then whose responsibility is it?
i also think its relevant to draw a contrast between the situation and circumstances in Australia with, for example, Communist China, where the regime was established via direct use of force and indeed, murder to the tone of tens of millions (and destruction of many more lives).
That situation doesn't pertain in Australia. The nation was established via a means of law, the constitution, and the application of the law, and what is lawful, has been extensively undermined over decades. This has been executed NO via the direct threat of murder and imprisonment, but by the aforementioned manipulation, deceit and was wholly made possible because of the ignorance of the People as to what the law actually is.
Philosophically, we can bemoan the fact that corrupt governments use the legal system backed ultimately by 'force', but it doesn't, in my view, preclude the fact that ultimately we are responsible for our fate, and what choices we make in regards to corruption, self-governance, and ignorance of what the law actually is.
If we have a lawless nation, it got that way because the people (including myself) allowed it to get that way. Unlike Soviet Russia, Communist China or Cambodia under Pol Pot, where actual force (murder, etc) was used to coerce whole populations into submission to a totalitarian regime.
You ask: That's not true. When was the last time any significant numbers of Aussies were forced into certain actions because guns were pointed at them, or even threatened them?
How about this time. https://www.rebelnews.com/police_confirm_use_of_controversial_lrad_device_at_canberra_protest
That's one example. Moreover, it has NOT been made clear how many responded on that day to the use of that device; it was posited (corroborated by direct testimony) that many felt ill effects, after the fact, but many more did not.
more importantly, the participants, some of who I know personally, did NOT choose to cancel the event, avoid the situation, or flee Canberra because of "threat of force" or threats from this device or others. So it's not correct to use this as an example of a large number of Aussies being forced to do X because they had literal guns pointed at them, which was the point I was making.
ATLAS was positing a philosophical argument equating the enforcement of government made laws as the use of force, aka "a gun". That's a different issue to being forced by a revolutionary militia to do X in order to comply and survive, or not, as in the case of the communist revolutions of the 20th Century.
2020 and 2021 were an aberration in Australia. However, MANY in Victoria and elsewhere in Australia actually chose to demonstrate and go against government demands regardless of the intimidation that was exerted by corrupt police forces. Regardless, and despite.
Currently, at least, in a nation like Australia, the governments get away with what they do NOT because they have roaming bands of militia carrying machine guns shooting citizens in the streets or in their homes if those citizens get out of line, but rather because the citizenry is ignorant of the law, of their rights, and how the corrupt governments are perpetrating their crimes in defiance of the law, not because of it.
At least, that's my opinion, from my first hand experience living here for the past 20 years and experiencing first hand many of the complex issues of the past 3 years.
If the ONLY reason the corrupt forces are able to get away with their corruption is because they hold murder, incarceration and death over our heads, then we're screwed. I choose not to subscribe to that perspective. I believe we, and an awakened and aware people can change the situation.