Aussies asked for Commonwealth input

Australians are being asked to help draft a new charter for the Commonwealth.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the leaders of more than 50 other nations agreed at last year’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Perth to create a charter setting out the organisation’s aims and values.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is now seeking public submissions from ordinary Australians on what the charter should include.

Submissions are now open on DFAT’s website and will close on February 17.

Commonwealth countries are expected to consider a draft of the charter later this year.

The charter was a central recommendation of a major recent report on how to reform the Commonwealth to arrest its slide into irrelevance.

Leaders rejected the report’s other key recommendation that the Commonwealth should appoint an independent human rights watchdog.

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