Given the dodgy moves and removal of rights during the WuFlu (which the government has got away with), does the Constitution mean anything these days? Constitutional lawyer, Professor David Flint has said on many occasions that our politicians are acting unconstitutionally now, and they always will. The average Australian drone seems neither to know nor care.

Thanks to the fear of Covid, and the increasing dependence on government under Morrison, the 'quiet Australians' have become the brain dead Australians. Our virtually free-from-opposition government will soon be able to do as it pleases, and to hell with the Constitution. Rather than being alarmed by Communist China as Jeffery Wall, above, thinks they should be, the Morrison government seems to have developed a liking for the less complicated, more convenient, Chinese system.

Will there even be a referendum given the Leftist influence on everything in Australia, including the Morrison government, that used to be right of centre, but is no more?

As for "Our present PM has been quiet on the matter", that's par for the course. Morrison will lurk until he decides on what's best for his career and survival in the job he is clearly not suited for

A substantial percentage of the people of "aboriginal descent" have a minimal claim to aboriginality which makes the claims for recognition somewhat of a farce. We should just be doing more to improve the living conditions of all people of whatever race who are disadvantaged. No referendum is going to accomplish that.

David

Right, David. But we have been trying to better their conditions for over two centuries now, without much effect, and nothing, including a referendum will fix that either. The whole aboriginal thing is a pointless, virtue signalling farce.

. Activists and ignorant do-gooders have rendered rational, evidence- based argument impossible by manipulating the category of “indigenous”, which opportunistically conflates Aborigines and people of aboriginal descent however tenuous. Living in totally different worlds, Aborigines in remote Australia have little, if anything, in common with self identified “indigenous” urban professionals with distant Aboriginal forebears but who are the spokespersons of the strident pressure group demanding constitutional amendment. And though they are too wilfully blind to see the self defeating contradiction, their adoption of the American category of “first nations” makes it impossible that the over 200 Aboriginal “nations” could be involved in the process.

Whist the aboriginal youth see going to jail as a rite of passage, the number of aboriginals in custody is not going to get less either. Their elders seem to be hopeless lot who have lost control of their communities. Assaults on aboriginal women by drunken relatives is still continuing, recognition and so called truth telling wont fix that either.
David

We've heard all the pros and cons of this previously.
And it appears to be complicated. However why can
other countries succeed in their dealings with their
Indigenous people while we fail so miserably?

If the current position is only to ask whether citizens
are in favour of there being some sort of recognition of
the historic presence of Indigenous people in this country
as the author of this article tells us - then why are
we objecting on the assumption that it won't work?

If we maintained this sort of attitude in our daily lives
nothing would ever get done.