Abstract
The federal government has committed to holding a referendum at or before the next federal election on recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution. This Issues Paper examines the background to this proposal, and suggests how the Constitution can be changed to achieve this goal. It also explains how a referendum on this topic can be won, and sets out the legal, practical and political preconditions for referendum success.
Disciplines
Constitutional Law | Indian and Aboriginal Law | Law
Date of this Version
7-15-2012
Recommended Citation
George Williams, "Recognising Indigenous Peoples in the Australian Constitution: What the Constitution Should Say and How the Referendum Can be Won" (July 2012). University of New South Wales Faculty of Law Research Series 2012. Working Paper 25.
http://law.bepress.com/unswwps-flrps12/25
Comments
This article was published in Land, Rights, Laws: Issues of Native Title (Vol 5 No 1, September 2011, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies), 1-16. This paper may also be referenced as [2012] UNSWLRS 25.