• Elliemac@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Specific groups and races have no place in Australia’s constitution. Find another way.

    • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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      You say this as someone who has at least skimmed the constitution, right? I ask because here’s the first couple of paragraphs of our constitution - the bolding is mine…

      Whereas the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, humbly relying on the blessing of Almighty God, have agreed to unite in one indissoluble Federal Commonwealth under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and under the Constitution hereby established:

      And whereas it is expedient to provide for the admission into the Commonwealth of other Australasian Colonies and possessions of the Queen:

      Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

      But yeah - if you put aside the huge chunk of the text calling out specific individuals and groups throughout the entire document, you’re right.