The Australia Together Podcast

Listen to ACFP’s Founder Bronwyn Kelly’s interview with one of Australia’s most prominent political scientists, Professor Mark Beeson, about our prospects for getting world leaders and our own leaders to cooperate seriously to achieve international peace and environmental sustainability in the age of climate change. Want to know more about Australia Together ? Australia Together is the nation’s fi...

Listen to ACFP’s Executive Director David Kelly talk with Founder Bronwyn Kelly about the Vision for Australia Together in this Episode of the Australia Together Podcast. Want to know more about Australia Together ? Australia Together is the nation’s first community designed and driven long term, integrated plan for a better future. It’s designed to help Australians make the best future we can ima...

Episode 50: On progress with Australia Together and strategies for electoral reform in Australia. This is the final episode in ACFP's series of conversations with a range of inspiring Australians about Targets and Strategies in Australia Together . Australia Together is the nation’s first long term, integrated plan for a better future for everyone. It is being progressively developed by Australian...

Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly, Founder of Australian Community Futures Planning: In this series of the Australia Together Podcast we’re interviewing a range of people about the issues we can resolve by developing a long term integrated plan for a better future for Australia. We’re looking into a draft of such a plan - Australia Together - and canvassing views about strategies that are or should...

Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly: In this series of the Australia Together Podcast we’re interviewing a range of people about the issues we can resolve by developing a long term integrated plan for a better future for Australia. We’re looking into a draft of such a plan - Australia Together - and canvassing views about strategies that are or should be included in it. Last week I published an articl...

Introduction by Bronwyn Kelly In this series of the Australia Together Podcast we’re interviewing a range of people about the issues we can resolve by developing a long term integrated plan for a better future for Australia. We’re looking into a draft of such a plan – Australia Together . Last week I published an article summarising the key strategies in Australia Together for stopping climate cha...

In this series of the Australia Together Podcast we’re interviewing a range of people about the issues we can resolve by developing a long term integrated plan for a better future for Australia. We’re looking into a draft of such a plan – Australia Together . In today’s episode David Kelly interviews Bronwyn Kelly about one of the big ticket items in the plan – the need for constitutional reform. ...

Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly: Australia Together is the nation’s first long term, integrated plan for a better future for everyone. It is being progressively developed by Australians for Australians so that we can tell our governments what we want them to do for us as a cohesive, democratic community. The plan is in its starting draft phase but it already contains data and information about mor...

Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly: Australians are due to go to the polls in 2025 to elect their 48th federal parliament. Australian Community Futures Planning (ACFP) is working to ensure it’s easy for everyone to find the factual information they need to decide whether the current parliament has been working well for them or not, and then decide who they’ll vote for in the next parliament. The info...

Find the full transcript: Episodes 40, 41, 42 & 43: Saving Australian democracy and sovereignty by building a new Constitution - An essay in four parts by Bronwyn Kelly. Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly: Subscribers familiar with my writing will be aware of my most recent book, The People’s Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . I’d like to thank readers...

Find the full transcript: Episodes 40, 41, 42 & 43: Saving Australian democracy and sovereignty by building a new Constitution - An essay in four parts by Bronwyn Kelly. Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly: Subscribers familiar with my writing will be aware of my most recent book, The People’s Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . I’d like to thank readers...

Find the full transcript: Episodes 40, 41, 42 & 43: Saving Australian democracy and sovereignty by building a new Constitution - An essay in four parts by Bronwyn Kelly. Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly: Subscribers familiar with my writing will be aware of my most recent book, The People’s Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . I’d like to thank readers...

Find the full transcript: Episodes 40, 41, 42 & 43: Saving Australian democracy and sovereignty by building a new Constitution - An essay in four parts by Bronwyn Kelly. Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly: Subscribers and others familiar with my writing will be aware of my most recent book, The People’s Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . I’d like to tha...

Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly: On 28 September 2023, representing Australian Community Futures Planning, I addressed the federal Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights as a witness in its Inquiry into Australia’s Human Rights Framework. I made a case in support of a Human Rights Act but stated that the Constitution is a barrier to security of the human rights of Australians. After my appe...

Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly: On 28 September 2023, representing Australian Community Futures Planning, I addressed the federal Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights as a witness in its Inquiry into Australia’s Human Rights Framework. I made a case in support of a Human Rights Act but stated that the Constitution is a barrier to security of the human rights of Australians. After my appe...

Introduction from Bronwyn Kelly: On 28 September 2023, representing Australian Community Futures Planning, I addressed the federal Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights as a witness in its Inquiry into Australia’s Human Rights Framework. I made a case in support of a Human Rights Act but stated that the Constitution is a barrier to security of the human rights of Australians. After my appe...

On 28 September 2023, ACFP's Founder Bronwyn Kelly addressed the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights in their inquiry into Australia’s Human Rights Framework. She made a case in support of a Human Rights Act but stated that the Constitution is a barrier to security of the human rights of Australians. ​Dr Kelly testified that executive governments can - and they do - all too easily reduce...

In Episode 35 Bronwyn Kelly reads the final chapter of her book,  The People's Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . She states that: Australia can establish a safe and prosperous future for all its peoples but only if it reconstitutes itself as an inclusive, full democracy – one in which the people have their rightful share of power and can establish a...

In Episode 34 Bronwyn Kelly reads Chapter 9 Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 of her book,  The People's Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . She discusses the democratic processes by which Australians might alter their Constitution and examines potential obstructions to those processes. Bronwyn then suggests options for overcoming these obstructions. She also highl...

In Episode 33 Bronwyn Kelly reads Chapter 8 Parts 5, 6 and 7 of her book,  The People's Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . In Part 5 she discusses the last of four essential changes to the Constitution - the need to eliminate the clauses that enable racism. She recounts how the group most affected by these clauses - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islan...

In Episode 32 Bronwyn Kelly reads Chapter 8 Part 4 of her book,  The People's Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . She discusses the third of four essential changes to the Constitution - the need to limit the powers of the prime minister in relation to decisions on war. The suggestion is that this power should be shared with the people through the parl...

In Episode 31 Bronwyn Kelly reads Chapter 8 Parts 1, 2 and 3 of her book,  The People's Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . In Part 1 she points out how most suggestions about reform of our governance focus on mechanical alterations of the existing system. However, these don’t offer much, if anything, in terms of the possibility of political inclusion...

In Episode 30 Bronwyn Kelly reads Chapter 7 Parts 7, 8 and 9 of her book,  The People's Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . In Part 7 she states that the purpose of enshrining an Australian people’s national voice in the constitution is to enable Australians to develop terms of trust with the parliaments they elect. She suggests there is likely to be...

In Episode 29 Bronwyn Kelly reads Chapter 7 Parts 5 and 6 of her book,  The People's Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . In Part 5 Bronwyn refers to the fact that there is a problem of injustice in the Australian state arising from the brutal dispossession of First Nations. In the Uluru Statement from the Heart, however, Australians have been offered...

In Episode 28 Bronwyn Kelly reads Chapter 7 Part 4 of her book,  The People's Constitution: the path to empowerment of Australians in a 21st century democracy . In this section she sets out how it has been necessary to adapt and expand the process of Integrated Planning and Reporting already legislated for local councils so that it can function at the national level and can be used efficiently by...