There is a widespread view that if this year’s referendum were stripped back to the specific recognition of the Aboriginal people in the constitution, it would be home and hosed. Instead, the referendum uses recognition to camouflage a machine which, we are warned on good authority, will divide the nation and make it ungovernable, blocking a reform government trying to correct the endless problems today’s politicians insist on creating or making worse.
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