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Mal Oldis's avatar

Please, stop referring to the current group aborigines as First Nation , original inhabitants etc. You are swallowing their rhetoric. The aborigines was never a 'nation' and had no sense of nation hood until it seems, that centrelink became involved. It was made up of hundreds of seperate groups Also, the European settlers that moved here was (until the current ramapant immigration started) the most recent inhabitants, the current group of aborigines was the second last group of setrtlers, and who knows what groups arrived prior to that. Thos pushing the YES vote are either idiots, scammers or lawers. In any case I regard those who don't push NO as traiters and should be regarded as such.

DUTTON is gutless and trying to play the middle road.

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Vicki Sanderson's avatar

Harry, I worry about unexpected consequences of Dutton’s suggested second referendum regarding recognition of the presence of Aboriginal communities prior to colonial settlement. Whilst this may seem a welcome, and relatively innocuous insertion into the Constitution, I think it is a risky fall back position.

It has been rightly suggested that the Voice proposition is all about eventual acceptance of "co-sovereignty” whereby the Aboriginal people will have a separate and equal right to determine major issues affecting the country. While this may appear to be resisted if a “No” vote wins the referendum, a recognition of previous occupation by Aboriginal communities may be the basis of a subsequent High Court decision in respect to the question “sovereignty”.

I very much regret that Dutton has made this offer. Like many well meaning concessions, it will be exploited by the activists and just add to the increasing division in this land.

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