{"id":3147,"date":"2023-06-13T04:58:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T04:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aussieflyers.com\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2024-01-27T23:42:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T23:42:13","slug":"the-australian-constitution-is-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aussieflyers.com\/the-australian-constitution-is-racist","title":{"rendered":"The Australian Constitution Is Racist."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I suggest to you that the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia is racist and that this actually resulted as a consequence of an unwitting change to the Constitution effected by the 1967 Referendum; namely, the Australian people agreed, without realising the full implications of such agreement, that the Federal Government would take over the role of the States in the management of native Aborigines and, for that purpose, would be permitted to make laws specifically for Aboriginal natives.  This change entrenched racism into the Australian Constitution.  Although its genesis may have been rooted, by some, in good intentions, it was a clause that discriminated against the majority of Australians on the basis of their race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This change was not accidental.  I believe it was deliberate and, after the change was made, was quickly taken advantage of by both Whitlam and Hawke (who had an association with the Fabian Society) and this gave rise to the racist, discriminatory welfare system that is in place today whereby people with some smattering of Aboriginal genes are the beneficiary of government largess without the need to be means-tested.  For example, if a person declares they are an Aborigine, they are exempt from paying TAFE fees and even University fees.  This is grossly unfair to those impoverished Australians who do not have any Aboriginal ancestry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To understand how this happened you firstly have to understand the meaning of the term “Aboriginal Native” or “Native Aborigine”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1901, the Attorney-General Alfred Deakin provided a legal opinion on the meaning of section 127 of the Constitution.  Section 127 excluded “Aboriginal Natives” from being counted when reckoning the numbers of the people of the Commonwealth or a state for the purposes of determining electoral boundaries.  His legal advice was that “half-castes” were NOT “Aboriginal Natives”. [Deakin, Alfred (29 August 1901). “Opinion Number 13 \u2013 Aboriginal natives whether half-castes to be included in count for reckoning population”. Legal Opinions. Australian Government Solicitor. Retrieved 17 September 2020.]  Further inference could be drawn that these persons also lived on reserves or missions and followed largely a nomadic, hunter-gatherer lifestyle as well as being totally dependent on the State Governments for their welfare should they find themselves in a desperate situation.  (I will explain later why this inference could be reasonably drawn at that time, namely 1901). Conversely, those persons who were fully or in part of the Aboriginal race who participated in “modern” society, ie, worked a job and paid taxes were not classed as Aborigines.  They were entitled to all the rights to participate in politics and society as any other Australian citizen.  This fact has been “memory-holed”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is noteworthy that the Commonwealth Government website, https:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/About_Parliament\/Parliamentary_Departments\/Parliamentary_Library\/pubs\/rp\/rp2122\/Chronologies\/IndigenousChronology<\/a>, provides an untruthful and distorted version of Australian History.  For example, it uses the term “Aboriginal People” instead of “Aboriginal Native”, saying that Aboriginal People were excluded from voting etc.  A person reading this, in this present day, would infer that all persons with some smattering of Aboriginal genes were excluded when this was nothing like the case.  Added to that, the word “Indigenous” now crept into modern parlance when referring to Aborigines.  In doing this the term “Aboriginal Native” has been entirely lost!  This serves two purposes for those who wish to malign the early Australians of non-Aboriginal ancestry.  Firstly, it devalues the status of any non-Aboriginal Australian who was born and raised in this country, ie, is actually indigenous to this country per the strict use of the word.  Secondly it avoids using the word Aborigine because that word would bring into focus the fact that the speaker\/writer is discriminating on the basis of race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To further underline the point I am making here, the Commonwealth Electoral Act No. 31 of 1962 states in its foreword that it is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n