
Conversations: with Nicholas Aroney, Professor of Constitutional Law at The University of Queensland
John Anderson: Conversations
Are We Speaking the Wrong Words?
In situations where people of a particular race are excluded from voting, they aren't counted for working out the populations of the different states. And that seems racist in a sense but actually what it does is it creates an incentive not to exclude people from voting. I think that could definitely be cleaned up. Because I don't think it's necessary. In my position that we ought to have a look at those things and speak the wrong words. We're explicitly saying this, that's right. Completely colourblind. Totally.
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