POGG
1. Commonwealth law is founded on the constitutional principle of “peace, order, and good governance” (POGG). All Australian legislation – from the loftiest of statutes to the most trivial of local by-laws – must conform to that ideal if it is to be reckoned constitutionally (that is to say: legally) valid. It should be obvious by now to all and sundry, that Australia is hardly a nation of pacifists. Rather, “peace” in the holy triumvirate of POGG should be read as “the state of being free from civil disorder” or – more sinisterly, to my mind – “the state of being free from dissension.”
2. In the absence of economic equality there can be no social justice; in the absence of justice there can be no peace. Economic inequality breeds suspicion, discontent, anger, enmity, malice, conflict, and ultimately violence between the two broad classes, the Haves and the Have-Nots. Gross disparity of wealth breeds civil disorder, dissent: the very antithesis of peace.
3. From this truth – which the Have-Nots, at least, hold to be self-evident – it follows that any Australian law promoting socio-economic inequality is unconstitutional, and therefore, technically invalid.
4. Go to town. Paint it red. Take the tram (it's free). Exercise, in short, your democratic right: civil disobedience.
2. In the absence of economic equality there can be no social justice; in the absence of justice there can be no peace. Economic inequality breeds suspicion, discontent, anger, enmity, malice, conflict, and ultimately violence between the two broad classes, the Haves and the Have-Nots. Gross disparity of wealth breeds civil disorder, dissent: the very antithesis of peace.
3. From this truth – which the Have-Nots, at least, hold to be self-evident – it follows that any Australian law promoting socio-economic inequality is unconstitutional, and therefore, technically invalid.
4. Go to town. Paint it red. Take the tram (it's free). Exercise, in short, your democratic right: civil disobedience.