2COMMUNITY RECOGNITIONthe immigrants of the Western nations. The Aboriginal community and the Torres Strait Islanderpeople demand for reforms in the Australian constitution which will empower all members oftheir community (Morphy 2013).They have the firm conviction that only when they have fullcontrol of their destiny, then only their children and the youth members of the community willhave a protected future and will flourish. The Aboriginal community demands a “voice” in theparliament and feels that mere recognition in the Australian constitution will not be enough toprotect their rights. Hundreds of members of the community have travelled to Uluru and tried toreach a consensus on whether they need a referendum or a constitutional recognition will besufficient for them to continue their struggle for sovereign rights. The Aboriginal and the TorresIslander community have demanded a model for change. The members of the communitycontinued their discussion for six months and they reached the consensus that they do not wantmere acknowledgement but also they firmly want for themselves a treaty and a justicecommission. The Commonwealth country Australia is the only nation which does not have treatyto protect the rights of Aboriginal people (Glaskin and Weiner 2013).There is the problem in thedetermination of the belonging to the continuing cultures of the Aboriginal Torres Strait Islanderpeoples. The unstructured nature of the ‘culture’ raises the concern among the group that theindigenous people of Australia will be given preference over the non-indigenous residents inmany legal circumstances. There has to be the recognition of these people in a symbolicdeclaration, which is outside the Constitution. However, there has to be constitutionallyestablished body of the indigenous leaders to give an opinion to the Parliament on the affairs ofthe Indigenous people (Johnston et al., 2013). The discrimination of the non-indigenousAustralians against the indigenous people has reduced since the impact of the ‘Act ofrecognition’. Indigenous Australians have not been recognized as the sovereign people or offered

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