>very few people in Australia have read the Australian constitution, much less
>take it seriously. there are downsides to this, of course. but the reason
>it's not taught in schools, fawned over in speeches, regarded as constitutive
>of 'the Australian people', is that it's actually a sub-section of a statute
>of the British parliament. how distressing this has been for Australian
>patriots.
And do Australian (republican) patriots dream of writing their own Constitution? Of being the (always-capitalized) Founders of a new nation?
Doug