cohenite,

To be fair, here is the article to which Windschuttle was replying:

http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/3792080.html

Have to agree with cohenite.

How on Earth can you have provisions that give special “recognition” (status) to one racial group and it not be racist?
It never ceases to amaze how those on the left can in one breath rant about racism and in the next seek to further it.

And it’s no mere coincidence that those pushing such provisions are in league with those who are seeking to open our borders to all comers.There’ a method in their madness.

As there is no law in the world that says we can dictate who enters or leaves any country what do people suggest we do about the tiny number of asylum seekers who transit Indonesia?

We already pay tens of millions to jail them, have them forcibly deported or tortured to death in Indonesia - it's not our country though so what do people suggest?

We start a war maybe so they stop letting the victims of our two dirty wars escape?

@Marilyn,

<<so what do people suggest?>>

Well here’s a few for starters.

Let’s get SERIOUS about border control.

1) Stop, giving blanket approval to illegals.
2) Stop, releasing smugglers under all sorts of loopy excuses.
3) Start, finding something for all our underemployed activists to more usefully occupy their time (one possibility: a national TAFE scheme that allows them to learn tiddlywinks)

Poirot; the Windschuttle link is to his response to the Brull article you have linked to.

The Constitution is currently racially neutral; it does not mention any race and unlike Marcia Langton and Megan Davis's interpretation of Section 51 (xxvi) as allowing detrimental as well as positive government action under this section, the proper and historical intepretation is that only positive action is allowed.

Activists like Ms Langton and Davis and Brull would claim that this lack of explicit positive bias towards aboriginals is racist.

Legally this is a nonsense. You do not correct a disadvantage which does not exist by creating the very thing you are objecting to, in this case racism by specifically referring to a race.

Marilyn Shepherd
I wish you’d take a more in depth look at who is actually coming to this country and why. For a start all the Tamils who were coming here recently were not fleeing from any war involving America or Australia. The Afghanistan people aren’t coming here fleeing our army (unless they are Taliban with fake papers, which wouldn’t surprise me)they are actually fleeing their own crazy muslim leaders and the Taliban, looking for life in a country known for it’s freedom and lack of tolerance for crazy fundamentalist religious ideas be they Christian,Muslim, Hindu or The Orange People. This is what they are running from.
If they are so scared of our Army people then why are they running to the place where those same Army people are based. Not too frightened of us are they? Can’t run to us fast enough. I wouldn’t run to the country of an army I was frightened of. Your statements don’t stand up to any in-depth scrutiny.
All these terrified- of- us -refugees are running straight to us, voting with their feet.