Many commentators claim that it is a badge of shame for Australians that there have been only eight successful referendums to amend our Constitution since 1901. Yet it is worth noting that there have been only been twelve amendments to the US Constitution in the same period – and two of them related to the same subject (the introduction in 1919 of ‘prohibition’, and its repeal in 1933).
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