The con-stitutional re-cognition (s)cam-pain: the campaign for the hidden recognition of first nations peoples' racial inferiority

The constitutional recognition campaign has received party-wide support and its efforts have been promoted by Prime Minister Tony Abbott as being something that would 'complete our Constitution.' The broader rhetoric surrounding this campaign suggests that it will result in a just, albeit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gordon Chalmers
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Indigenous Law Bulletin 2014
Subjects:
Aboriginal Australians
Indigenous peoples
Constitutional amendments
Aboriginal Australians > Legal status
laws
etc
Aboriginal Australians > Government relations
Abbott
First Nations
Online Access:http://apo.org.au/node/62942
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Summary:The constitutional recognition campaign has received party-wide support and its efforts have been promoted by Prime Minister Tony Abbott as being something that would 'complete our Constitution.' The broader rhetoric surrounding this campaign suggests that it will result in a just, albeit delayed, recognition of indigenous peoples in the Australian legal system. However, beneath the surface of this seemingly benevolent gesture, is a reaffirmation of the colonial subordination and erasure of the several hundred original nations' peoples and ways of being.

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