Appendices

Model 5 (People Choose from Parliament's List)

Because the bulk of the operative provisions will be the same as those in Model 4, we have simply provided here a new Section 60 which deals with the election of the President.

60 The Election of the President

1. The President shall be directly elected by the people of the Commonwealth in such manner as the Parliament may provide, subject to this Constitution.
2. Any person may, subject to sub section 4 hereof, be a candidate for President if at the time he is nominated that person is qualified to be, and capable of being chosen as, a member of the House of Representatives and is not a member of the Commonwealth Parliament or a State Parliament or Territory legislature.
3. A candidate for President may be nominated by any Australian citizen qualified to be a member of the Commonwealth Parliament, by either House of a State or Territory Parliament or by the Council of any unit of Local Government.
4. All nominees for the office of President shall be published in the Government Gazette. Not less than 30 days after that publication a joint sitting of both Houses of the Commonwealth Parliament shall, by at least a two-thirds majority, choose not less than seven of the nominees to be candidates in the election for President. No person shall be a candidate for President unless he has been chosen as such by the joint sitting aforesaid.
5. The actions of a person otherwise duly chosen as President under this section are not invalidated only because the person was not qualified to be chosen as President.