Originally published: AQ: Australian Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 6 (Nov-Dec 1999)
The piece was published before the referendum on an Australian republic, which took place on the 6th November 1999.
https://doi.org/10.2307/20637858
It is interesting to read back the chapter ‘Makarrata Dreaming’ written in the late, which focused on our lost constitutional genius Andrew Inglis Clark of Tasmania, who embodied all of the good things that are in our constitution.