The Victorian UCA publication ‘Crosslight’ has not published the full text of the Preamble, nor the full text of the Constitutional change proposed for the 12th Assembly.  The preamble purports to be about the First People.  As far as I can make out, this is a verbal coup by the ASC to undermine the Basis of Union, grab power and avoid accountability by playing the ‘ethnicity card’. 

The proposed preamble to the Constitution of the UCA is a Trojan Horse to undermine both the status of the Basis of Union and the nature of authority in the UCA.  If the Preamble and the Constitutional change to Section 2 are permitted, then ASC has absolute power on my reading, it can overrule a full Assembly.  Nothing has to be referred back for concurrence.  A matter may be referred back for ‘consultation’, and if the ASC does not change its mind, then that is the end of it!! 

Once you democratically vote for a dictatorship, there is no democratic way back to democracy!
If the ASC is serious about acknowledging the First People, then it should carefully uphold the matter of interrelated councils, and adherence to the Basis of Union in the Preamble.