MeisterEckhart wrote on Aug 2
nd, 2022 at 11:24pm:
No. A shadow government implies sovereignty. You're confusing guaranteed representation with government.
So now you imagine that an elected by a small group body has no 'sovereignty' over all other electors, and that therefore their views have no value unless accepted in the wider range of views?
And that special elected seats by a tiny group only, somehow does not represent sovereignty of that small and specified group?
Good thinking....
So the absolute sovereignty of a few selected seats (not elected) does not imply any sovereignty of a specific social group who never had a concept of sovereignty of a small and specified group?
How does that gel with the DEMAND for a special voice at every level of government, and then the election of the top rung by those special voices only, as being anything but a demand for sovereignty of groups that never had it?
The final report was that there should be bodies appointed by a small minority at every level of government, and that the 'top rung' should be voted on ONLY by those appointed to those positions by that small minority, and that they should then have 'advisory' power to the Parliament as a whole - this to be enshrined in the Constitution - unlike any other lobby group (such as miners, white supremacists, Lebos, Eye-ties, Grecos etc) ....
And now you moot the idea that totally separate but decidedly unequal seats be handed as a right to that small minority, and that they not just be an elected by a tiny minority advisory group, but have guaranteed seats?
Clearly in mooting that idea of totally separate and voted on by a tiny minority seats, you have betrayed the entire thrust of this specious non-argument about Aboriginal shadow government.
And you deliberately overlook the fact that the final report (solution for Australia) clearly demands representation at every level of government without going through the tortuous route of actually being elected by the majority of all voters in the seat they wish to hold.
Do you even begin to understand our form of democracy?