Lisa Jones wrote on Jun 23
rd, 2023 at 8:40am:
...This is not only incompatible with Australia’s legal and political heritage, but inconsistent with Australia’s preference for a race-blind constitution. This was a point that was most clearly expressed at the 1967 referendum, where 91 per cent of Australian electors chose to remove from the Australian Constitution two divisive references to race.
Yes.
51. The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to
make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the
Commonwealth with respect to:
…(xxvi) the people of any race,
other than the aboriginal race in any State, for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws.
127. In reckoning the numbers of people of the Commonwealth, or
of a State or other part of the Commonwealth,
aboriginal natives
shall not be counted.
So now—bizarrely, and divisively—some people want
to effectively add back into our Constitution similarly
racist terminology.
—Which is another reason I'll be voting NO.