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Australian Notes

Australian Notes

11 June 2015

1:00 PM

11 June 2015

1:00 PM

The redoubtable Andrew Bolt wants a referendum on same sex marriage. Edmund Burke gave the best and traditional answer to government by referendum in his famous Speech to the Electors of Bristol in 1774: ‘Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment, and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

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