Quite a number of people have taken the time to write to me by email and I thank them. Any person so elected with a popular mandate ultimately must become in conflict with the Prime Minister of the day. President Clinton, apart from personal failings, has never managed to have any significant social reforms passed by Congress in his two terms of office. These very worthwhile reforms were always the heart of his platform. The principal role of an Australian President should be to safeguard the constitution as well as the rights of the Australian people.
Subsidiary roles are purely ceremonial.
Political campaigns COST money and, obligations invariably ensue. This is certainly not the case. My mother migrated from England on a troopship with her brother in 1919. My father's parents were Scot and Welsh respectively. My wife's antecedents were Irish and English.