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Paul Bongiorno

Paul Bongiorno: Albanese right to put justice and self-respect into constitution

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is repatriating the full powers of our head of state to one of our own. Photo: TND

There is unfinished business at the heart of the Australian constitution. It goes to redressing a historical wrong and then to asserting who we are as an independent sovereign people.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese seized the opportunity of Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee to honour and congratulate the monarch, but also to remind the nation it was a good time to take a good hard look at ourselves.

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