The debate over Indigenous recognition in the Constitution might take a new angle.
The words of ‘Acknowledgement to Country’ could be inserted, with a slight amendment.
‘The Commonwealth and States acknowledge the traditional custodians’ could replace ‘We acknowledge…’.
The words are well known around Australia, maybe learnt by heart, and would most likely therefore pass at a referendum.
This insertion could take place at a new section 0.1 or in the old section 127, where the text was removed in the 1967 referendum on Indigenous census.
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