What constitutional rights??

submitted to SMH
I sincerely hope that John Guyer (letters 26 Sep) was writing tongue in cheek. It is however worth pointing out again that Australia doesn't have any defined ongoing constitutional rights of individuals, except as electors. There are 16 occurrences of "right" (singular or plural, including "copyright", and section headings) in our constitution. No occurence of word "freedom" one of "obligation" (financial), and zippo on "moral".

Apart from the High Court which can only rule on cases brought to it (usually years after enactment), Australians have no constitutional protection from a govt with a slender numerical majority over-riding and undermine any or all historical conventions and "democratic" protections that they wish to dispense with.