APARTHEID AUSTRALIA has enacted race-based laws violating human rights of Aborigines and particular refugees groups

Apartheid Australia.

The question in the 1967 Referendum was “Do you approve the proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution entitled 'An Act to alter the Constitution' so as to omit certain words relating to the people of the Aboriginal race in any state so that Aboriginals are to be counted in reckoning the population?” The overwhelming 90.77% support for the ‘Yes’ vote gave the Federal Government a clear mandate to implement policies to benefit Aboriginal people. The other aspect of the constitutional change, enabling of Aboriginal people to be counted in population statistics, has led to clearer comparisons of the desperate state of Aboriginal health. For details see “Australian referendum, 1967 (Aboriginals)”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_referendum,_1967_%28Aboriginals%29 .

The 1975 Racial Discrimination Act outlawed racial discrimination in Australia (e.g. race-based entry to Australia under the so-called white Australia Policy) (see: Racial Discrimination Act 1975: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_Discrimination_Act_1975 ).

However the Liberal-National Party Coalition and Labor both supported race-based legislation that excluded Northern Territory Indigenous Australians from the protection of the 1975 Racial Discrimination Act, thereby returning Australia to de jure status as an Apartheid state in addition to Australia’s de facto Apartheid state status because of the appalling living conditions of indigenous Australians and the ongoing Aboriginal Genocide in which 9,000 Indigenous Australians die avoidably every year out of an Aboriginal population of 0.5 million due to gross, White Australian-imposed deprivation (see “Northern Territory National Emergency Response”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Territory_National_Emergency_Response ) .

The pro-war, human rights-violating Australian Labor Government extended this gross violation of human rights by also excluding from the 1975 Racial Discrimination Act Afghan refugees fleeing the Afghan Holocaust and Afghan Genocide (post-invasion war-related deaths 5.6 million; see “Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/afghanholocaustafghangenocide/ and “Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ ) and Tamils fleeing the Tamil Genocide (50,000 Tamils butchered in the last year alone; see “The Tamil Genocide by Sri Lanka” by Professor Francis A. Boyle: http://www.claritypress.com/Boyle-Tamil.html ).