In a time of climate disasters, can the Australian Constitution protect Country and itself from harm?

I have a rag-tag copy of the Australian Constitution. It has stalked me through thirteen house moves since the ’90s. When I first held the document, I was a bright-eyed law student convinced Eddie Mabo would realise justice and certain Paul Keating’s Redfern speech had ignited the national imagination. He said, ‘We are beginning to learn what the Indigenous people have known for many thousands of years—how to live with our physical environment.’ ¹