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Advance Indigenous Australia fair : Comments
By Mike Pope, published 18/8/2009The responsibility of all Aborigines, particularly the younger generation, is to join the broader population and embrace the 21st century.
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On 2-3-1898 it was made clear that Section 127 was unfair against Aboriginals but it was held better to do so because of the burden upon the newly formed States having to pay taxes per head of population. If Aboriginals had been included then this may have resulted to a mass extermination just to save a lot of money payable on taxes, and so in the overall it was better to have Section 127 and at the time few Aboriginals voted, as being the best all around.
The right to vote for an Aboriginal was with the States as like that of anyone else.
Subsection 51(xxvi) excluded any legislation against the general community. And while the High Court of Australia claims that the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 is not within Subsection 51(xxvi) but within external affairs powers, this cannot be so because the Framers of the Constitution made clear that “external affairs" powers only related to the given legislative powers!. The RDA 1974 is and remains to be unconstitutional.
Subsection 51(xxvi) PRIOR TO THE 1967 AMENDMENT protected Aboriginals against racial discrimination!