Brian Ross wrote on May 28
th, 2023 at 2:54pm:
Gnads wrote on May 28
th, 2023 at 2:44pm:
Brian Ross wrote on May 28
th, 2023 at 1:56pm:
Gnads wrote on May 28
th, 2023 at 10:04am:
After "race" was removed from the Constitution in 1967.......dumbphucks like you & the Albanese Govt. want to re-insert "race" back into it.
Complete idiots.
"Race" wasn't removed from the Constitution in 1967. It is still there. When did you ever read the Australian Constitution? I bet never. Section III(XXV) still holds:
Quote:25. Provisions as to races disqualified from voting
For the purposes of the last section, if by the law of any State all persons of any race are disqualified from voting at elections for the more numerous House of the Parliament of the State, then, in reckoning the number of the people of the State or of the Commonwealth, persons of that race resident in that State shall not be counted.
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What happened in 1967 was a change to the clause that stated the Commonwealth was to have no power over Indigenous Australians to have power over them:
Quote:Section 51 (xxvi) was amended by the Constitution Alteration (Aboriginals) 1967, and previously read as follows:
"(xxvi) the people of any race, other than the aboriginal race in any State, for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws;"
It now reads:
Quote:Section 51 (xxvi) the people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws;
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It doesn't mention any specific race......it applies to all races
now you want a specific race to have a specific section applicable only to them enshrined back into the Constitution.
That's racist/exclusionary & divisive.
I stand by what I said about you.
You stated that the concept of "Race" had been removed from the Constitution, I proved that it had not. Admit your error. Tsk, tsk, tsk...
Aboriginals were given the right to vote before the 1967 referendum...
in which sections of the Constitution were amended by removing certain wording thus Aboriginals were considered the same as any Australian citizen regarding inclusion in the census.(that removed the deferential of race)
Even QLD gave Aboriginal people the right to vote in 1965.
Quote:Campaigning by FCAA and others led to the federal government establishing the House of Representatives Select Committee on Voting Rights of Aborigines in April 1961. The committee travelled widely throughout the country and interviewed 324 witnesses, almost half of whom were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
In its report, delivered late in 1961, the committee estimated that about 30,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people had been denied the vote as a result of discriminatory legislation in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland. It recommended that all Indigenous people be given the right to vote at federal elections.
The government responded by introducing a Bill ‘to give to Aboriginal Natives of Australia the right to Enrol and to Vote as Electors of the Commonwealth’.
Voting rights for Indigenous people enacted
The Commonwealth Electoral Act 1962 received assent on 21 May 1962.
It granted all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people the option to enrol and vote in federal elections.
Enrolment was not compulsory for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people,unlike other Australians. Once enrolled, however, voting was compulsory.
How the states and territories responded
Shortly after the federal government passed the 1962 Act, Western Australia and the Northern Territory granted Aboriginal people the right to vote.
Queensland established a committee to investigate ‘the promotion of the well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in Queensland’. Towards the end of 1965 the Queensland parliament passed an Act to extend voting rights to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Compulsory enrolment and voting for Indigenous Australians
It was not until 1984 that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people gained full equality with other electors under the Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Act 1983. This Act made enrolling to vote at federal elections compulsory for Indigenous Australians.
So from 1965(when QLD passed voting rights) up to 1984 all Aboriginal & TSI's had non compulsory enrolment & voting rights.
How was this a denial of full equality? They had more choice.
Today many Australians believe our system should be like the US one where enrolling & voting in elections is not compulsory.
Again I stand by my statement that Albosneses Morons & numpties like you want to reinstate an enshrined amendment to the Constitution which discriminates in favour of one race over all others.
It's a very divisive poor idea.
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