Pedro Curevo wrote on Feb 23
rd, 2023 at 11:11am:
You cannot have a constitution that begins with British colonial history as the beginning of Australia.
Recognising the Aboriginal people as the first people in the constitution effects no one but the Aboriginal people.
No one is saying how changing the constitution dramatically effects others...
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Well, as a country, Australia DID start with 1788.
That Aborigines were here before that doesn't alter it.
Giving a special race-based power to advise on laws IS a dramatic change from equality.
It is stupid/sinister to say, as Tennis Albo et al do, that such a constitutional change will have no effect on non-Aborigines. Why agitate for something that has no effect?
The only point of having a constitutional Aboriginal Voice is to enable the High Court to abjudicate if insufficient notice is taken of it.
A mere recognition of pre-1788 Aboriginal presence in the Constitution is not what the Voice is about at all. Such recognition could be easily inserted in the preamble without any additional power to advise parliament and government - these are additional matters about Abiriginal sovereignty, not mere recognition.
But Aboriginal sovereignty never existed in Australia - but is being invented now, by Aborigines with more Anglo Celtic blood in them than most migrants since WWII. Oh, the ironing!!!