27-11-2014 Prime Minister Tony Abbott reckons that it has been the most serious failure as a nation that the Indigenous Australians that were displaced are not acknowledged in the Constitution. He confirms his support for Indigenous recognition in Australia’s constitution. At an event in Sydney the prime minister says he wants to get rid of the ‘them and us’ labels dividing the country and concedes that middle-class Anglo-Australian males have had a ‘magic carpet ride through life’. (The Guardian)
Wake Up Time comment: Once again a political leader does not advise how and what ‘recognition’ means and how it will be worded. So far it seems, that ‘Constitutional Recognition’ is probably the best way to create ‘us’ and ‘them’, instead of creating simply one ‘us’, because of -for the first time – defining the ‘them’ as separate from the ‘us’!