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GEORGE SANTAYANA wrote in 1905: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," and Talleyrand said of the Bourbons: "They have learnt nothing and forgotten nothing." The recent constitutional history of Trinidad (formally the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago) has lessons for Australia which I trust we will learn, and not have to repeat. Trinidad is in the eastern Caribbean close to Venezuela and Guyana. Its population of some 1,200,000 is divided, with 40 per cent each of Indo- and Afro-Caribbeans with the rest mixed.
In 1962 the former crown colony became an independent member of the British Commonwealth as a constitutional monarchy. It adopted ...