AQ: Australian Quarterly

It is quickly becoming a cliché to say that the world will be forever altered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our systems of work, our relationship to government, and even our relationship with our ourselves and neighbours, are likely to be put under the k

For a moment, imagine this: The supreme law of a nation lies covered in cobwebs, its words of wisdom interlaced with absurdities, irrelevances, anachronisms and fantasy. Clever counsellors in fine silk, debate before judges, who in turn decide whethe

EDITOR: Grant Mills ASSISTANT EDITOR: Stephen Burke DESIGN AND PRODUCTION: Art Graphic Design, Canberra DIRECTORS OF THE AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF POLICY AND SCIENCE: Leon R Beswick (co-Chair) Andrew Goodsall Maria Kavallaris (co-Chair) Jennelle Kyd Su

1 See BR Wise: The Making of The Australian Commonwealth, 1913. University of Sydney Library 2 See: Sir Henry Parkes, March 1891, Sydney. 1 M.Kirby ‘Lucinda’s Handiwork - The Australian Constitution - A Centenary Assessment’: Monash University Law Re