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The Weekend Read: Mark McKenna on ‘The Stunted Country’

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Indigenous Australians and the Australian Constitution

i think that our concept of the australian polity still fails to be genuinely inclusive. We sleep walk in the footsteps of our colonial forbears, who introduce both responsible government and federation without negotiating with indigenous australians. The discriminatory race power section 51 26 still stands. Without a proper constitutional response to this fundamental question, how can australia hope to become a fully reconciled republic?  The true source Australia's shame isn't the delivery of a speech by queen elizabeth or prince charles. It's the continued exclusion of australia's first nation's peoples from our constitution. And yet they've played out in parallel universes.

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