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South Australia
Constitution (Recognition of Aboriginal Peoples)
Amendment Bill 2012
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Constitution
Act 1934.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short
title
2Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Constitution
Act 1934
3Insertion of section 2
2Recognition of Aboriginal peoples
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Constitution (Recognition of Aboriginal
Peoples) Amendment Act 2012.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Constitution
Act 1934
After section 1 insert:
2—Recognition of Aboriginal
peoples
(1) The Parliament on behalf of the people of South Australia acknowledges
that—
(a) the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1834 passed a Bill called
An Act to empower His Majesty to erect South Australia into a British
Province or Provinces and to provide for the Colonisation and Government
thereof and that by Letters Patent dated 19 February 1836 His
Majesty established the Province of South Australia; and
(b) the making of the above instruments and subsequent constitutional
instruments providing for the governance of South Australia and for the making
of laws for peace, order and good government occurred without proper and
effective recognition, consultation or authorisation of Aboriginal peoples of
South Australia.
(2) Following the Apology given on 28 May 1997, the Parliament,
on behalf of the people of South Australia—
(a) acknowledges and respects Aboriginal peoples as the State's first
peoples and nations; and
(b) recognises Aboriginal peoples as traditional owners and occupants of
land and waters in South Australia and that—
(i) their spiritual, social, cultural and economic practices come from
their traditional lands and waters; and
(ii) they maintain their cultural and heritage beliefs, languages and laws
which are of ongoing importance; and
(iii) they have made and continue to make a unique and irreplaceable
contribution to the State; and
(c) acknowledges that the Aboriginal peoples have endured past injustice
and dispossession of their traditional lands and waters.
(3) The Parliament does not intend this section to have any legal force or
effect.