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No aborigine can feel absolutely free and equal to other Australians whilst the Commonwealth Constitution contains the two clauses which exclude him from the Census . . . and from Commonwealth laws.
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The statement argues that Aboriginal people cannot feel fully free and equal while the Constitution excludes them from the national census and from Commonwealth laws. Its point is that equality is not only a personal feeling: it depends on being fully recognised and included in the country’s basic legal and political system.
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