18: John Howard First Announced Constitutional Recognition

John Howard First Announced Constitutional Recognition to damage the First Nations Sovereignty. This audio was first broadcast on ABC Radio National PM Report 11 October 2007. The image here is of former PM John Howard and Mark Leibler, the co-chair of the Referendum Council' the media never shows. John Howard's statement was made during the same period of government when he reduced the rights in Native Title, a much weaker land holding, opposing the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, opposing a Treaty and following the introduction of the Northern Territory Intervention and the shutting down of ATSIC. Mark Leibler Co-chair and pulling the strings of the Referendum Council is a Tax Lawyer who is now a Senior Partner in 'Arnold Bloch Leibler' a company that works with big business to minimise taxes. He is an active supporter of the illegal occupation of The West Bank in Palestine and one prominent member of the Australian Zionist lobby.