Month: November 1997

1997_11_november_forum repub vote

The Nick Minchin-John Howard experiment has failed.

The vote for the constitutional convention was shamefully reduced to a bureaucractic function. It was like geting a new electricity connection or telling the bank you have changed your address.

I didn’t feel I was exercising my right to vote. My idea of exercising the right to vote means going to the local primary school — a public place — seeing other members of the public there, looking at how-to-vote cards and then being handed a ballot paper while others around are doing the same thing. In other words, it is a public expresion of a private right.
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1997_11_november_belize for travel

My Belize Yacht Club T-shirt often provokes the query: “”Where the hell is that?”

In Central America, I explain. It’s the cutest nation on earth. With a population of 220,000, it has its own Governor-General and a Parliament of 21 who occupy two impossibly out-sized buildings in the capital Belmopan, population 7000. Yes; 7000. The capital was moved inland from Belize City in the mid-1960s after Hurricane Hattie virtually wrecked the place.

The tallest building in the country is a 300-metre high Mayan ruin. And the second-tallest building is a 280-metre high Mayan ruin. The Mayan mysteriously deserted their cities in Central America before Columbus arrived.
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