Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Chapter 6: Right and Responsibility

Introduction

The political dysfunctional of Australia within recent years, is evidence prove that the Australia Government Structure is outdated and needed major upgrade. The Commonwealth of Australia Government structure, is introduced in 1911, over 106 years ago, when the population of Australia is a mere, 4.5 million. Today, Australia is a country of over 24 million. Flaws of Australia government structure, that would not cause problems, one hundred years ago, is now helping to create the issue of political dysfunctional and political disorganize for modern Australia.
This series would explore flaws of Australia Government structure and how it is helping to create the issue of political dysfunction and political disorganize for modern Australia and what sort of upgrade will help resolve the problems. 

Chapter 6: Right and Responsibility

Unlike the constitution of most countries, Australia constitution have no guarantee of any human right. This is a major problem due to firstly, an unethical parliament can easily make law that violate human right and Secondly, can even leads to legalized unethical dictatorship.

An example of law that violate human right, in the past of Australia history, without a doubt is, the Stolen Generation. However, it can still happen in the future, for example, if Christian fanatics managed to hold control of over half of the parliament, they can easily pass a law to “Kill all gays” and having the cops dragging gay people out of their home middle of the night and put a bullet in the back of their head, execution style and it would be perfectly legal. (That is also the main reason, I didn’t support the legal recognition of gay marriage in Australia, not because I got a problem with gay people, but, a law like that could pass in Australia and if it pass, the secret police only need to look at the marriage registry, to see, who is in a gay marriage and then go into their home and then drag them onto the streets and execute them, but if gay marriage is not legally recognize, the gay people, can simply go underground)

An unethical parliament can even through law, hold dictatorship. For example, China is currently under the dictatorship rule of the Chinese Communist Party. But, according to China’s constitution, China is a democracy, but with a lack of constitution right that give all people the right to vote and allowing anybody to run for political office. The law of the People Republic of China, allowing, the Chinese Communist Party to be the gate keeper, in regards to who can vote and run for political office, as a result, the Communist Party and those who are pro Communist Party, hold control of the absolute majority of the parliament of China, in addition in China, the Parliament elect the President, thus, also allow the Communist Party to control the Executive Government. Without the protection of relevant right, by constitution, an unethical parliament can do the exact same thing, to Australia.


Although some people argue, a democratic elected government would represent the opinion of the people, the truth is, it can only represent it to a certain extent. Only a public referendum, with compulsory voting, can truly represent the voice of the people, in complete. For example, during WW2, the only reason Hitler got elected and stay in power, is, nobody else could fix Germany’s economy and Germans were desperate, but his policy in regards to invasion and Jews, did have some controversy amount German people, despite many didn’t dare to speak out. Also, during WW2, when Japan Government initiated its policy of invasion, it actually received wide criticism and protest from the Japanese public, even the Emperor speak out against the decision of the Parliament and the government support slide massively in the polls, thus, the Japanese Government declared martial law, even the Emperor was not able to do anything about it, based on then Japanese constitution, as then Japanese Emperor was more as a figure head, then modern British monarch. The only reason the government receive support, is due to the warrior culture of Japan and the Japanese people understand, Japan is now far too deep in this and their only option now, is either fight for victory or surrender in shame. Thus, Japanese people decided to fight till the end, despite still does not approve the reason that led their government to start this war, to begin with.  

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