Upon becoming Australia’s Federal Prime Minister following the defeat of the Morrison Liberal/Country Coalition with a marginally small vote, Anthony Albanese immediately in his Victory speech committed his Labor Party to fully implement the “Uluru Declaration”.

That was to embroil his Nation in an Apartheid settlement where all claiming part or wholly aboriginal descent plus a few with provable genealogical research having not a millimetre of Aboriginal Blood, to be set apart as a special people with separate and enhanced treatment in law.

One year later a national referendum called “A Voice To Parliament” was duly placed before all voters of Australia. At the time of his utterly rash announcement Albanese was basking in a glowing public support for this entrenchment of special treatment by way of polling well into the sixties plurality. All based on dreams of enlightened behaviour to original inhabitants in opposition to some rather awful incidents since the beginnings of settlement where the UK used the rather inhospitable Lands as Penal Colonies.

Now all notions that Aboriginal Australia was a settled by peaceable embracing generous people before the arrival of the British has been demolished with a mountain of evidence the Native peoples who roamed the nation as Itinerants with a predilection for violence, subjugation of women and other basics in contravention of any laws of equality and caring for others, were anything but peace loving.

Apartheid became synonymous with arbitrary assessment of native peoples as somehow subhuman, with draconian racial laws overseen by a Minority, so in attempting to use that meme it is very different for Australia with entrenched power firmly held in the hands of a majority of a cosmopolitan bunch of non aboriginal voters. However it is equally abhorrent for any race to claim to be above or even different than any other. We all inhabit this planet, warts and all. The Voice and The Treaty here in NZ are both appalling examples of the very worst of Racism writ large.

Anyway, by the time Australians got to actually enter the booth to vote on The Voice, the 60.5% that had supported it one year earlier had evaporated and there had been a total reversal with the rejection vote reaching 60.6%. If that was not decisive enough it failed to gain a Yes in any state, meaning step two of it becoming entrenched in the Federal Constitution was also rejected totally by all the states.

Unsurprisingly the racist moves did gain a plurality in the Australian Capital Territory but that was of no significance as only States were needed to say yes, not one did.

Twelve months for a dramatic reversal in Australia. New Zealand, now facing equally obnoxious legislated raising of voters claiming any degree of Maori to an elevated status, will only have six months, so it may well be that this is a first move destined to fail in the face of persistent declarations by Mr Luxon that his National Party will never entertain any moves to dilute the grab for power that reached a crescendo under the six years of socialist government, where an emboldened Maori Caucus went full on to set up a divisive minority advantage for all those who claim a connection to the peoples under the dominion of a handful of chiefs.

So those opposing the entrenchment of advantage for a particular race may endure beyond this coalition Government. But the matter remains central in the ACT leader’s sponsored bill that attempts to define the very simple phrases of the document signed in the early 1840s, and to reassert the supremacy of the elected Members of Parliament who must face the voters, and not leave such legislative power in the hands of unelected Judges and lawyers with an inestimable belief in their ability and appointed positions amongst us.

The march from the North being hailed by the MSM is a distraction, but should a massive number of voters submitting in support of ACT, we could see the failing-to-read-the-room National Party become swamped in their hubris.