I’ve discussed this issue with many of my
Aboriginal friends, of those many friends none have expressed a desire to be submitted to the final indignity of
inclusion in the Constitution.
A Treaty is ALL they've ever asked for and
ALL they've ever wanted.
I would be directing our tax payer dollars at
removing the continuing racist sections of existing legislation i.e. the NSW
Parks and Wildlife Act where Aboriginal Human Beings are still listed as Native
Flora and Fauna.
Then I would direct those funds to removing
the lubricious requirements of the Office of the Registrar of
'Indigenous" Corporations (known as ORIC) where unlike ASIC
(Australian Security & Investments Commission) they are
not afforded even the slightest hint of privacy that is not only
legislation for in our Commonwealth, but is expected to exist by so many of us.
I was HORRIFIED to discover that our Aboriginal community have every
single detail of their lives open to anyone in the public that searches the ORIC
website, that's anyone in the world! Not only can you access the DOB, Home
Addresses and other contact
details of the Directors of Aboriginal Corporations (something that simply
is outlawed on free publicly available ASIC searches), then to add insult
to an already massive injury, you can also obtain all the personal details
of every member of that Corporation, there is no way that the shareholders
personal details such as addresses and dates of birth would be made
available freely for ALL the world to access on the ASIC database.
These are ISSUES of far greater importance
and deserving of priority than imposing another form of 'assimilation' on an
already dismissed and undervalued blessing that is the Aboriginal people of
this land.
I am constantly introduced to issues such as
these I've detailed and by either self-discovery or through my friendships with
Aboriginal people. They are HORRIFIC MAJOR LEGISLATIVE ABUSES AND
INSTITUTIONALISED RACISM and they are permitted to continue while the Governments
of the day divert our attention to efforts which in no way bring reconciliation,
let alone a celebration of the gift and blessing that Aboriginal people are to
this land now known as Australia
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