COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA CONSTITUTION ACT - SECT 117

Rights of residents in States
A subject of the Queen, resident in any State, shall not be subject in any other State to any disability or discrimination which would not be equally applicable to him if he were a subject of the Queen resident in such other State.


Would this not say residents of States AND Territories if the constitution acknowledged Aboriginals? Give this is exactly what the "intervention" is, would it not be unconstitutional if the indigenous were acknowledged as residents of Australia?

Lol, so now all the people i wen't to school with in central queensland are not aboriginals?
Last i checked northern territory is a state for all intents and purposes, and the intervention SAVED LIVES.

we fucked the aboriginals good, this is the least we can do for them.

The NT racial discrimination acts had to be suspended to pass the legislation for the intervention. That's acknowledgement of the discriminatory nature of the intervention, hence it would be deemed unconstitutional if the aboriginals were considered residents of a state.

The $587 million package came into effect with the passage of the Northern Territory National Emergency Response Act 2007 by the Australian Parliament in August 2007. The nine measures contained therein were as follows:
Deployment of additional police to affected communities.
New restrictions on alcohol and kava
Pornography filters on publicly funded computers
Compulsory acquisition of townships currently held under the title provisions of the Native Title Act 1993 through five year leases with compensation on a basis other than just terms. (The number of settlements involved remains unclear.)
Commonwealth funding for provision of community services
Removal of customary law and cultural practice considerations from bail applications and sentencing within criminal proceedings
Suspension of the permit system controlling access to aboriginal communities
Quarantining of a proportion of welfare benefits to all recipients in the designated communities and of all benefits of those who are judged to have neglected their children
The abolition of the Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP).

Which do you take issue with?
Something had to be done.

So coat hangers shouldn't be sold at the drug store?

the bill of rights is a bill of privileges

so what.

if we didnt invade this place and fucked up their ancestors they'd still be living the way they do. we owe em.


not without a safety cap on the pointy end.

This post was edited by Anphrax on Sep 19 2013 07:56pm

Compulsory acquisition by the Commonwealth of 5-year leases over declared Aboriginal land, Aboriginal ‘community living areas’ and town camps



UN declaration of human rights:
Article 2.

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 17.

(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Do you know why the native title was removed for specific areas?
I am personally not a fan of child rape so i support the intervention.

This post was edited by Lifebane99 on Sep 19 2013 08:02pm

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