20 August

Professor Cheryl Saunders, who chaired the gathering, commented on the Youth Constitutional Forum held in Canberra which supported an Australian Head of State. She said, “in terms of the head of state, (the young people) were concerned that the symbol that they presently identified with wasn’t the head of state. They were also concerned people didn’t have an adequate understanding of rights, and favoured a bill of rights of some kind.”