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CARRYING ON REGIME’S PROPAGANDA AGAINST DRAFT GHAI CONSTITUTION: BOB CARR, the UNELECTED Australian senator and Minister of Foreign Affairs “bobbying” against Great Council of Chiefs and National Peoples Assembly

By VICTOR LAL

BOBBYING is the act of stripping down into your bra and underwear then running down the street. The Australian Foreign Minister and unelected Senator Bob Carr is fortunate that the world’s leading constitutional lawyer Professor Yash Ghai drafted a new Constitution for Fiji. For if Ghai’s Draft Constitution was for Australia, Carr would have been stripped “bobbed” of his positions and sent packing out of Australian parliament. The Ghai Constitution has recommended the abolition of Senate, a recommendation which the illegal regime has wholeheartedly embraced, and which Carr has cleverly avoided commenting on in his recent interview with ABC News television in Australia. Instead, Carr is carrying on perpetuating the Fiji regime’s propaganda against certain features of the Draft constitution, namely the National Peoples Assembly and the role of the now defunct Great Council of Chiefs. He told Australian TV: “The notion, for example, of a largely unelected national people’s assembly comprised principally of non-government organisations sitting alongside the parliament is something I can’t think of enjoying precedence anywhere else in the constitution of a democratic country. The re-creation of an unelected Great Council of Chiefs would seem to give rise to the suggestion that ethnic divisions in the country were going to be exaggerated by new constitutional arrangements. I can find it understandable that the interim government has objected to both these features of the draft constitution presented to it.”
Carr has opted not to comment on the fact that the unelected and military appointed President Epeli Nailatikau had no legal power to do what he did: his job was merely to act as a post office – to receive the Draft Constitution, store it, and pass it onto the proposed Constituent Assembly, that was to be chosen by the unelected Prime Minister of Fiji and coupist Voreqe Battan Bainimarama.
In his treasonous address to the nation Nailatikau pointed out that “The Australian constitution which was drafted over 110 years ago has  only had 8 amendments to it since its inception. It has endured the test  of time.”
It is time the Australians amended their Constitution, abolished Senate, stripped unelected Bob Carr of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, and send him running down the streets of Sydney.
They could hire the world’s leading constitutional authority Professor Yash Ghai to help them subject Bob Carr to Australia’s own  “constitutional strip show”  –  one hundred and ten years is too long a wait to carry on with unelected Senator Bob Carr.