Constitution’s power to 'enable' race discrimination should be removed, MPs told

Mick Gooda says Australia is the only country in the world that has such laws and reform is urgently needed

The Australian constitution’s power to “enable” and “permit” racial discrimination should be removed as a matter of urgency, the joint select committee on constitutional recognition has been told.

Australia is “the only country in the world that has empowered our federal parliament to make laws based on race,” former social justice commissioner Mick Gooda told the committee, “and that provision has been used against Aboriginal people since 1967.”

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