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This is what everybody should be taught to understand. The Constitution as a whole has served us pretty well as a "living document," but clearly there are amendments that were written with the state of the late 18th century in mind, not the 21st or even the 20th century. We need constitutional reforms that we'll probably never get.
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Downer urges Britain to continue leading Western alliance
Latika Bourke29 March 2018 — 9:18am
By Latika Bourke
Updatedfirst published at 7:35am
London: Australia's chief diplomat in London Alexander Downer says Britain must continue the leadership of the Western alliance shown this week when 27 countries, including Australia, stood up to Russia "at last" by expelling more than 100 spies.
Downer, Australia's high commissioner to Britain, also urged NATO to continue its engagement with non-member allies to deal with threats to the world order, including Russia.
Alexander Downer has urged Britain to break from the European Union completely.
Photo: Penny Bradfield
He also urged Britain to break from the European Union completely, warning that any proposal to remain half in the trading bloc would render Britain "irrelevant" to Australia and other countries with which Britain wants to negotiate new trade deals.
Speaking to the Policy Exchange think tank, which he will chair when he finishes his extended posting as high commissioner, Downer said Britain had a responsibility to be "one of the great leaders of the Western world", which it had "magnificently demonstrated" in co-ordinating a global response to the attempted assassination of Russian defector Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.
"Not only did the British government react robustly to the chemical weapons attack in Salisbury but it has brought to bear the power of Britain to corral the great network of Western allies at long last to stand up to Russian intransigence," he said.
"For once, Russia has learnt that the Western alliance really does have some backbone and it is Britain, not America, which on this occasion has led that alliance.
"Congratulations on a job well done," he said.
Australia expelled two Russian spies, sparking an extraordinary face-offbetween the Russian ambassador to Australia Grigory Logvinov and Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop in Canberra.
Downer said the Western world needed to show more confidence in confronting global challenges than it had in recent years, including standing up for democratic political systems and values.
He said the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network between Australia, the US, Britain, New Zealand and Canada had begun expanding its remit, collaborating on counter-terrorism and defence.
He said NATO's work in working with non-member but partner countries - including Australia, South Korea, New Zealand and Japan - needed to be stepped up to betterco-ordinate global policy responses to threats.
Poisoned: Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal.
Photo: AP
"This is a project we've got to work on ... it still needs more work," he said.
"We've got to find ways of getting the great upholders of the Western alliance and the rules-based system - whether they're in Asia, or whether they're in Europe or whether they're Americans -together more often to talk more often strategic issues and try to co-ordinate their policies."
He said leaders of the great alliance countries needed to be brought together so they could more effectively deal with threats including North Korea, the rise of China and Russia's increasing antagonism.
Downer's encouragement of Britain to take a greater lead in the world came just hours before Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson gave a speech promising just that.
Johnson said the mass expulsions were not a demonstration of love for Britain but the result of global sentiment towards Russia "suddenly crystallising".
And he compared the British inventing the lightsabre, a fictional weapon used in the Star Wars movies, to Russia's development of Novichok, the fatal nerve agent used against Skripal and his daughter to show that the creativity that comes from living in a free society would prevail.
"Which of those two weapons is really more effective in the world of today?" he asked.
"Which has delighted the imaginations of three generations of children and earned billions?
"Which one is loved and which one is loathed?" he said.
Johnson was one of the leading faces of the Vote Leave campaign in 2016, which called for Britain to rekindle relationships with Australia and forge stronger ones with the US and emerging powers through trade deals.
Currently, as part of the European Union, Britain can only trade according to rules and agreements negotiated by the customs union.
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Britain will leave the EU in March next year. The first 12 months will be a transition period and there is pressure on Prime Minister Theresa May, from Remainers, to keep Britain in the customs union so that it can continue trading freely with the EU.
But Downer warned strongly against this approach and said it would be the worst of both worlds for Britain, leaving it "irrelevant" to international diplomacy on economic issues.
"You would be better off remaining within the EU or being completely out of it in every way than leaving yourselves in such a position of weakness and irrelevancy.
"It would be humiliating for a once great country to end up by being little more than a dependency of the European Union.
"So we very much hope you will not go down that path. If you did, you wouldn’t be negotiating any trade agreement with Australia. But let’s assume you do not commit such a gross active folly," he said.
Latika Bourke is a reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age based in London. She has previously worked for Fairfax Media, the ABC and 2UE in Canberra. Latika won the Walkley Award for Young Australian Journalist of the Year in 2010.
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