ARM makes an announcement on “Model”

Galvanised by the Meghan and Harry interview, ARM suddenly announces that it will reveal a “Model”, presumably about how to select the Head of State, “later in the year”.  The intention now is to bypass preliminary plebiscites and go straight to referendum. We have counselled ARM against this approach because voters have to be onside for such a major change ie they need to be fully consulted. Malcolm Turnbull supports plebiscites most recently in this autobiography “A Bigger Picture” published in April 2020. ARM claims that its model to go to referendum will be the result of public consultation but this is only with its members, a process has been aleady been underway for more than a year so progress is slow. A few months later, they brought in a team of constitutional lawyers to assist. The date for announcement is still “later in the year” reasserted in both May and June. We await developments.