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"Sorry" says the WA Premier. The Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2021 was a mistake. Now the proposed Voice ...

The WA Premier Roger Cook is quoted in the Australian today saying:

 "Simply put, the laws went too far, were too prescriptive, too complicated and placed unnecessary burdens on everyday Western Australian property owners."

Well done you Mr WA Premier. You did a rare thing in politics. You admitted your government got it wrong and corrected the mistake by repealing the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2021 and re instituted the 1972 Act, with a few amendments. 

That's one of the advantages of legislation over a constitutional change. You can correct your mistakes. If "we the people" of Australia make a similar mistake on the Voice referendum and find that the changes to our constitution also go too far and place unnecessary burdens on everyday Australians, then we will not have the luxury of repealing our mistake by passing a new law. We'll be stuck with the changed constitution unless we have another referendum. 

There seems to be a lesson to be learnt here. Are we going to heed it?

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