Prime Minister John Howard's Draft
Constitutional Preamble
With
hope in God, the Commonwealth of Australia is constituted by the equal
sovereignty of all its citizens.
The
Australian nation is woven together of people from many ancestries and arrivals.
Our
vast island continent has helped to shape the destiny of our Commonwealth and
the spirit of its people.
Since
time immemorial our land has been inhabited by Aborigines and Torres Strait
Islanders, who are honoured for their ancient and continuing cultures.
In
every generation immigrants have brought great enrichment to our nation's life.
Australians
are free to be proud of their country and heritage, free to realise themselves
as individuals, and free to pursue their hopes and ideals. We value excellence
as well as fairness, independence as dearly as mateship.
Australia's
democratic and federal system of government exists under law to preserve and
protect all Australians in an equal dignity which May never be infringed by
prejudice or fashion or ideology nor invoked against achievement.
In
this spirit we, the Australian People, commit outselves to this Constitution
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