Age readers give their views on Australia’s Constitution, Qantas and climate activists.
Alfred Deakin was a leading progressive of his time . He was a champion of a compulsory minimum wage, factory acts, old age and invalid pensions, equal pay for equal work, a federal arbitration court and women’s rights.
To fully understand Deakin’s thinking and that of the intellectual and political community of which he was a part in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, we need to locate him in historical context. The fact that Deakin, like most of his community, was shaped by a brand of race thinking that located Anglo-Saxons in the vanguard of modern civilisation – that held indeed that Anglo-Saxons had a genius for self-government – has been well established over the decades by many historians.
It is difficult to disagree with Lidia Thorpe’s propositions that the Constitution was designed by and for white people; and that the Voice to parliament would not empower Indigenous citizens in any substantive way, at least in the short term. That said, her ″Blak Sovereignty″ movement’s exclusionary rhetoric amounts to an inverse version of the white racist ideology lurking within elements of the No camp.
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