Labor Stunt - Aboriginal recognition - Liberal backed

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here we go again.
What is it with labor.
Do they honestly think Australians can't recognise an aboriginal when it sees one?
excerpts...

PM plan for indigenous recognition
September 20, 2012
Michael Gordon
National Affairs Editor, The Age

THE Gillard government has embraced a new strategy to recognise the ''unique and special place'' of indigenous Australians after conceding that a referendum proposing constitutional change could fail if it is put at or before next year's election.

It now plans to legislate an ''act of recognition'' before Parliament rises this year in the hope that it will build momentum for constitutional recognition of indigenous language and culture in the next two years.

The legislation will have a two-year sunset clause in the expectation that a referendum will be put by the next government, irrespective of who wins.

The Prime Minister agreed to the goal of a referendum before or at the next election in separate minority government agreements with the Greens and with independent MP Rob Oakeshott after the 2010 election.

But, in a report to the government late last year, a 22-member expert panel urged caution on the timing of the referendum, saying a failure to have it passed would result in ''confusion about the nation's values, commitment to racial non-discrimination and sense of national identity''.

The panel proposed changes to the constitution to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and languages, prohibit racial discrimination and remove the last vestiges of racism in the nation's founding document.

Co-chairman of the expert panel, Patrick Dodson, said the change in strategy made sense. ''There should be a clear distinction between the election and the need for statesmanlike behaviour to resolve a 200-year problem - the lack of recognition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.''

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I can't begin to tell you how enthralled I am at the prospect. Honestly... I really can't.