5. Section 122 - What the Aboriginal Political Elites Aren’t Telling You About Their Hidden Agenda and Their Voice in our Constitution
Noel Pearson, Marcia Langton and Pat Dodson are three members of the Aboriginal Political Elite who back the Uluru Statement and want to enshrine The Voice in our Constitution.
But in our opinion, they and their inner circle of supporters may have a Hidden Agenda that they are not sharing with the Australian public. To us, it looks like it could be alleged that these Aboriginal Leaders may be collaborating with other politicians, Big Business and the Progressive Left to slip a change through Parliament that will enshrine The Voice within Section 122 of our Constitution. Having Aboriginal Political Elites in control of Section 122 of our Constitution would enable the Elites to carve-out new, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander States, which they could run with their own State Parliaments and bureaucracies.
These New States would be based on Native Title Lands. Each New State would be entitled to additional seats in our Parliament, in the House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as seats at the Council of Australian Government’s (COAG) table, where they could demand a share of taxpayer’s funds to maintain their New States. This new, small group of Aboriginal Political Elites, representing only 3% of Australia’s population, would potentially have enormous power and access to huge finances provided by the Australian taxpayer.
The area of Australia’s land mass currently under Native Title is about 30% and within the next few years it is expected to increase to 62%. Therefore potentially, these new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander States could cover up to 62% of Australia’s land mass and be controlled by a mere 3% of Australia’s population who claim that they are of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent.
This 3% of the population would also get two votes – one during Federal elections and then another one via The Voice to Parliament – compared to just one single, Federal election vote for the other 97% of non-Indigenous Australians. Under the authority of The Voice, these New Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander States would be able to pass their own laws, including those based on traditional and customary law, some of which modern Australia agrees are unacceptable in this day-and-age and consequently are currently illegal.
The possible proof that this Hidden Agenda is being progressed by the Aboriginal Political Elites can be found in the Final report of the Joint Select Committee on Constitutional Recognition relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, released by the Parliament of Australia in November 2018.
This is the Report that the indigenous Affairs Minister, Mr Ken Wyatt, is using as the basis of his Co-Design Process, which is being led by the prominent Indigenous leaders Tom Calma and Marcia Langton. This Report specifically identifies, in the Section 2 headed, - Designing a First Nations Voice , sub-section 2.9 :
‘“…that the intention of The Voice is to…provide input where such power is exercised in relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples…[and]… that the primary purpose of The Voice was to ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices were heard whenever the Commonwealth Parliament exercised its powers to make laws under section 51(xxvi) and section 122 of the Constitution.”
Now, one could accept that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people may want The Voice to have a say in Section 51 (xxvi) of the Constitution – “The Race’s Power Section” - but, of all the other 128 Sections of the Constitution, why did the Aboriginal Political Elites single out only Section 122 as being worthy of enshrining Their Voice in the Constitution?
We suspect the reason is perhaps that once The Voice is enshrined in Section 122 of the Constitution, the Aboriginal Political Elites will then be able to get a sympathetic future Labor Government to start the Hidden Agenda process by enacting Laws under Chapter VI of the Constitution. We suspect that the Hidden Agenda will unfold as follows :
Step 1 – Under Sections 111, 121 and 124 of the Constitution, the Commonwealth Parliament has the power to establish New Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander States, which would have boundaries based on existing Native Title areas.
Step 2 – Under Section 122 with The Voice Power, the Parliament can make laws, under the direction of The Voice, for the New States and allow the representation of such New States in either Houses of the Parliament. That is, additional seats in the House of Representatives and the Senate will be made exclusively for these new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander State Politicians. The Aboriginal Political Elites will be able to enact any cultural, social or business laws they like within these states as The Voice gives them the power to do so.
And so there you have it. Australia will in the future consist of the six original, but reduced in size, States and Territories of NSW, VIC, WA, Qld, SA, Tas, ACT and the NT, and say, four New Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander States of say, Cape Yorkland, Torres Strait Islands, Yolgnuland and APYland for example. In addition, a number of other Aboriginal groups will also no doubt be working on achieving statehood as well.
Then, in another 20 to 30 years, the Aboriginal Political Elites would most certainly want to progress to full Self-determination and Indigenous Sovereignty for their respective States. They may move to secede from the Commonwealth of Australia as fully recognised First Nations on the International stage under the auspices of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. For Australia, the unique experiment of being the only country to fully occupy a continent as one Sovereign Nation will come to an end and our continent will begin a new, uncertain future as a divided collection of nations, not unlike Europe or, more worryingly, the Balkans.
“This morning’s formal support from the Australian Government for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is likely to go down in history as a watershed moment in Australia’s relationship with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples”
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma - 3rd April 2009
Now, we are not saying that the scenario we have described above for Australia is right or wrong, but just that it is alleged that it is being promoted in a most underhand way by the Aboriginal Political Elites and their allies, with no open discussion that involves the Australian people. If the Australian people are fully informed as to the consequences of adopting the Uluru Statement and enshrining The Voice into Section 51(xxvi) and Section 122 of the Constitution, and then they pass it at a referendum, then so be it.
Our great fear however, is that these proposals for constitutional change are being managed by a small group of Elites who appear to hold the average Australian in general, and Aboriginal people on-the-ground in particular, in total contempt such that they have no intention of explaining their real political aims in changing our Constitution. It is time for the media to do its job and start a conversation around this Hidden Agenda-see page 8) and Section 122 so that all Australians can be informed of the consequences, before being asked to vote in the Referendum.
We will leave the last world to one Aboriginal Leader who at least is honest and open in his desire to use the powers of The Constitution to achieve Aboriginal Statehood and ultimately Aboriginal Sovereignty and Nationhood.
Michael Mansell, Chairman of the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania and Secretary of The Aboriginal Provisional Government (APG) has written in May 2014 :
“An Aboriginal 7th State of Australia can be created under existing constitutional provisions…Section 121 of the constitution provides for the Commonwealth parliament to pass legislation establishing a new State. The States can legislate to surrender territory under section 111 of the constitution, but only to the Commonwealth. Once territory has been accepted by the Commonwealth under section 122, Canberra can…establish a new Aboriginal State entirely under section 121” - (our emphasis)