This
is the issue that will lose the referendum. It is a mistake to ban
racial discrimination through legal prohibition, even constitutional.
Just look at the great success from making recreational drugs illegal.
Quite apart from the wider legal ramifications it is the wrong approach.
We need to educate Australians in tolerance, especially those who
claim it is their right under "freedom of religion" to be bigots.
Repressing discrimination will not stop people believing it, just stop
them expressing it in public. Aboriginal Conventions will not win over
the powerful, vocal minority of Australians who continue to deny that we
all live "on Country".
Outsiders
visiting sacred Yolngu country in Arnhem Land “may as well be going to
Hawaii” if they’re not prepared to get behind a push to ban racial
discrimination…
theaustralian.com.au
New Whig Racial Discrimination is a symptom of the problem, not the cause. Until Aboriginal people are universally accepted as the first nations of this continent and the custodians of country, discrimination in some form or its equivalent will persist.
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