A few of course parroted the distortions the «No» campaign was built on or gave wanting to do in Nick Clegg as an excuse for voting against, but far more voted AV down because it had become too tied up with the politics of the Coalition and thus divorced from a wider and more genuine
discussion of constitutional reform.
In a nutshell, it is a review
of the Court's engagement with
constitutional conventions, from the 1930s and into the early 21st century — I don't discuss the Reference re Senate
Reform, 2014 SCC 32, [2014] 1 SCR 704, because that
discussion would have required a separate, and longer, paper.
«This announcement today has the potential to be history - making and is the first step in
Constitutional reform which will provide us with a solid foundation for future
discussions about how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people participate in the life
of the Australian nation.»