One of the referendums tried to: they put rights in with monopolies and all the others that had failed repeatedly.
A quick look the other day when categorising them showed the majority of the referendums to be about centralisation, IIRC I counted about 24 of them or so to be about increasing federal power. Not many were about increasing representation or enfranchisement (a couple were), including rights (a couple were), improved governance etc. A couple were aesthetics too.
They were mainly about centralism, which were the ones that got rejected. Somehow the feds found a way to centralise without the inconvenience of referendums.
I believe that successful change depends upon the merits the proposal
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