Comments by "" (@pwillis1589) on "‘Yes’ campaign launches ‘patently untrue’ advertisement: Liz Storer" video.
-
2
-
2
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
the Constitution as finally adopted contained a clear power for the Commonwealth Parliament to legislate in a manner that discriminated on the basis of race, both as to immigrants coming into Australia, as well as to people (whether British subjects or otherwise) of a particular race already in Australia. There was an expectation that the new Commonwealth would use these wide powers to implement the ‘White Australia’ policy, which it proceeded to do. That Constitution contained, and still contains, a direct constitutional requirement to discriminate on the basis of race in certain voting matters. There was no contrary constitutional limitation in the nature of an equal protection clause or a non-discrimination clause on the basis of race or the like, either at the Commonwealth or the State level. And the Constitution left Aboriginal people entirely under the control of the States and their Parliaments, with freedom to enact State laws that discriminated against them or otherwise. A number of discriminatory laws on the basis of Aboriginal race were thereafter enacted by the States, followed later, when the Northern Territory became a territory of the Commonwealth in 1911, by similar Territory laws. Such a summary must, it is submitted, lead to the conclusion that the Constitution was designed to promote a race-based legal and social system in Australia.
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1
-
1