silver said:
Two party politics is a political football.... otherwise we would be seeing lots of previous decisions being recinded after each and every election that see's political power change hands
......... just sayin
White coffee is still coffee
Mrs S just corrected me by sayin
"No matter how much milk you put in your coffee, it's still coffee ! "
My point Silver, was that something adopted by parliament during any particular government doesn't necessarily mean that's what a later government "thinks" on the matter. And indeed, unless something is agreed to by all of the states (such as uniform gun laws for example), or is voted by all of the states in a referendum to change something in the constitution, then it can just as easily be changed in the future by a government that doesn't agree with it. Unless changes are made to the constitution via a referendum then laws can be tweaked, changed (and nullified) forever and a day.
One thing that springs to mind with this discussion, is the debacle surrounding the late Author, Poet, Playwright & academic Colin Johnson (aka Mudrooroo) who not only lived among the Nyoongah people of Western Australia, but who wrote numerous books as an Aboriginal author, and eventually became head of Aboriginal Studies at Murdoch University, only to be outed by the Nyoongah elders themselves many years later as not being a member of their tribe. His own sister (who identifies as white) researched the family history herself, going back five generations and claiming that she could not find one aboriginal relative.
Johnson/Mudrooroo himself had previously denounced aboriginal writer Sally Morgan as not being Aboriginal, despite her being a known and accepted member of the Bailgu people from the Pilbara. So, this thing about whether or not someone is aboriginal based partly on whether or not they are accepted by their own community as such, seems to me to be something that can be at the whim of aboriginal peoples own discrimination, and possibly something that can be granted, and/or revoked at whim as payback for an attack on another members claim to aboriginality.
Personally, I want laws that apply to all of us, equally and the same regardless of our skin color, religion, race, or who was supposedly here first.
