shadow minister - not quite. The point I am making is that self appointed activists characterise our democratic process. This goes for the committee that runs the local football club to the people who are elected to parliament. It is a weakness in democratic systems globally that needs to be addressed. One of the reasons so many democracies are lurching towards some form of totalitarianism is that it is beginning to be seen as 'normal'.

South Australian Labor is gagging to have its own Voice, and it can have it without reference to voters if they can get it through parliament, which looks possible, with a couple of Green nutters, and a powerless Liberal opposition.

Federal Labor could do the same thing: just legislate. But, no. They want to change the Constitution; which is why the referendum question should be rejected. It is the threat to our Constitution that is the real danger.

Ockernese doesn't have the guts to just legislate; he wants the excuse of 'just doing what the people wanted' when the dangerous nonsense goes tits up, but can't be abolished by a future government without another referendum to change the Constitution.

Don't let the bastard get away with it. Vote NO.

Although, it is thought by some commentators that we might not have to vote at all, given Ockernese's stuttering and stammering over questions put to him buy some sections of the media over the last few days.

I repeat, there is one unanswered question in all of this that
requires a clear legal answer;
What is an aborigine ?

It is not like that perennial question "What is a woman ?".
We seem to have a lot of Tick-a-Boxes around already.
This is a fundamental legal question that if not defined will destroy
the constitutional legal system where it relates to aborigines.

Imagine, if you will, in the high court a question of should the
government have taken more seriously a certain matter.
A party to the dispute says, "But these people are not aborigines !"

No Comment yet ? I thought I would be jumped on immediately.
Something I have noticed, the most active activists are as white as me.
So what is their reasoning or justification.
The whole thing puzzles me.

Bazz,

We've been over this before. There are three criterias
that have to be met as designed to be considered Aboriginal.
Why don't you look them up?

Bazz,

You should look the criteria up.

They cover:

Descent, self identification, and community recognition.
All three have been accepted by federal government
departments.

1) An Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander is a person of
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent.

2) Who identifies as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.

3) Is accepted as such by the community in which they live
or formerly lived.

Their skin colour does not come into it.