Keating confirms: a treaty next. Apartheid must follow

First, giving some people a different form of citizenship on the grounds of their "race" and allowing them a superior claim to be here is a surrender to one key principle of apartheid and the destruction of the opposing principle of "one people, one law" that unites us.

Second, protest movements and the victim industry are in practice never appeased. Each concession is met by demands for another. Otherwise the activists would lose their power and their followers would lose their excuses for failure and attention.

Now former Prime Minister Paul Keating confirms it.

Paul Keating does not support ­recognising indigenous Australians in the Constitution but ­instead backs a formal document of reconciliation or a treaty he believes would be more meaningful.

“I am not a supporter of the so-called constitutional route to recognition,” he said. “The route to recognition has to be straight through the front door, with a document acknowledging prior occupation, including recognition and atonement for the dispossession.

“A treaty is the best way to do this, notwithstanding it has to be 200 years late. If my forebears had been here 60,000 years, there is no way I would be fobbed off with some weasel words in this country’s horse-and-buggy utilitarian Constitution.”

And after a treaty there comes sovereignty. Race-based rule over parts of Australia.

Which is apartheid.

Once the Left raged against apartheid as the greatest evil and a stain on the human soul. Now it actually campaigns to bring it to Australia.