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Statehood and regionalisation

An issue I feel passionate about is  Statehood  and the possibility of designing a modern constitution for a new State. Constitutional law was an interest during law school. The potential we have during this important time in history is, in my view, often overlooked, and to our detriment. With such a complex issue many Territorians are asking questions. In one sense there is simply too much information – many questions cannot be answered because we aren’t in a point of time in our history to provide an answer. What can follow is uncertainty masked as confusion. Whilst this happens there is the chance for leadership and for those showing leadership to coalesce around some core principles that define us. Dave Richards from Alice Online kindly posted  this piece  about Statehood and regionalisation – a speech I recently delivered to the  LGANT  general meeting. The Alice Springs News printed  a modified version . The  NT News  (online copy unavailable) printed a modified version over t