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Posted by Loulou on 1/4/2009, 12:27 pm, in reply to "Re: Discriminations or Special Treatment?"
Message modified by board administrator 6/4/2009, 9:47 pm
Alo, ki manyer Bashir
In another life when I used to dream of dead long-agos, and, a return home was still on the cards, I was energised enough to sift through tomes of convoluted jargonised lawyer-speak to find out where I stood under the Act. Here’s what I gleaned from that misspent passing phase: for example, children of Australian citizens born in Mauritius are granted Australian citizenship by descent on application. However, if the child takes up Australian citizenship before age 21, he or she becomes ineligible for Mauritian citizenship. Another example: say two 15-year old boys came to OZ in 1969, and one opted to be naturalised at age 20 and the other at age 23, the latter would still be entitled to Mauritian citizenship, while the former would not. Here though, the debate is purely academic, as most want to get out – very few want to go back. I agree that on this matter at least, the constitution doesn’t single out any ethnic group or geographical location, yet I could never quite wrap my head around the concept of minister’s discretion. One would have thought that the very object of a clearly drafted constitution should have been to restrict such discretion in the first place. That’s the whole point of having a constitution. If it can be circumvented willy nilly, then either its original intent was a contradiction in itself, or it is being negated. Either way, once set up, a good constitution should be free of any human fingerprint; free from Judges’ interpretation and, especially so, from politicians' intervention. Otherwise, why have one at all? What’s this u say, I’m dreamin’. That too!
Anyway, as for personal discrimination, well, unless an antidote for the human condition is found, discrimination the world over will outlive this century, maybe even the next. That is the nature of the human animal. And it would be sillier of me still to expound on the obvious. On a final note, the working class in Mauritius owes much to the indefatigable J. Bizlall, whose selfless struggle over the years is widely acknowledged and appreciated. I’ll not hide the fact than I’m a fan of his works, but as I said earlier, as most Mauritian emigrants will never return home to live, this issue is dead in the water; besides, there are those in Mauritius in more urgent need of help. Port twa bien, Loulou
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