The Plan necessarily targets and discriminates against native title holders and subordinates their interests to those of land and resource developers. Resource security is to be assured all those except native title holders. The Ten Point Plan perpetuates the historic policy of subordinating the rights of native title holders. Australia seems even now unable to accept that a prerequisite of any society must be equality before the law. Rather it seems to consider that it is the first principle to be put aside in the supposed interest of economic development.
Equality seems much too hard for Australia.
Professor of Law, The University of Western Australia. NZ PCC 387 at 390.