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The charge of the Recognition brigade

The Voice is toxic

29 February 2020

9:00 AM

29 February 2020

9:00 AM

So committed to the Constitutional ‘Voice’ Recognition movement are some commentators that they can happily concede that the recent High Court decision that effectively grants Aborigines a special, privileged status in Australia is bonkers; that the judges who did that seem to be activists, out of control activists; that Aboriginal activists have already seized on this decision to push for more; and that it is now considerably harder to argue that any constitutional changes, any at all, will be safe from further judicial activism still – and yet they want to push on all the same.

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