What is your full name?
Deborah White
What is your postal code?
5067
Do you support recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples by changing the Constitution or making some other kind of legal change?
Yes
What should the change look like?
See my final consolidated Comments
Should we have a statement that acknowledges the First Peoples of Australia?
Yes. This should be in the Constitution.
Where is the best place to put it?
See my final consolidated Comments
What should the statement say?
See my final consolidated Comments
Do you have any other comments on a statement about the First Peoples of Australia?
See my final consolidated Comments
Should the word 'race' be taken out of the Constitution?
I don't know
Should the Australian Parliament keep the power to make special laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples?
Yes
Do you have any ideas on what new words could be used to describe that power, or where in the Constitution to put the power?
See my final consolidated Comments
Do you have any other comments on powers to make laws for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples?
See my final consolidated Comments
Do you think that a guarantee against racial discrimination should go into the Constitution?
Yes
Do you have any ideas about what words to use for that guarantee, or where in the Constitution to put it?
See my final consolidated Comments
Should the guarantee protect all Australians against racial discrimination, or only Indigenous Australians?
All Australians
If there is not enough support for a guarantee in the Constitution, what other things can we do to stop racial discrimination in national laws?
See my final consolidated Comments
Do you have any other comments on changing the Constitution to stop racial discrimination?
See my final consolidated Comments
Do you think Indigenous people should have a say when Parliament and government make laws and policies about Indigenous affairs?
Yes
Should a new Indigenous group be set up under the Constitution to give advice and make sure Indigenous people have a voice in political decisions that affect them?
Yes
Is it worth creating the new group if it can only give advice and does not have the power to block new laws?
Yes
Do you have any ideas about what the new group would look like?
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Do you have any other comments on this Indigenous group?
See my final consolidated Comments
Should we delete section 25?
Yes
What would we achieve by getting rid of section 25?
See my final consolidated Comments
Is there any point in keeping it?
See my final consolidated Comments
Do you have any other comments?
I support both constitutional and other legal change to deal with the question of recognition of the original inhabitants/custodians of the continent and islands now known as Australia. A statement of acknowledgement of this recognition in Australian law
Are you making a submission on behalf of a person (such as yourself) or organisation?
Individual