Only Aborigines may vote

A "well-intentioned" racist law encourages even smart people to think up even "nicer" forms of race-based division:

CAPE York leader Noel Pearson has insisted that Aboriginal Australians be given a vote to determine whether a referendum on indigenous recognition in the Constitution goes ahead, and has cautioned against that referendum being held on the same day as the next federal election…

"Indigenous Australians should be given the opportunity to say whether they wish to put the question to the Australian nation. If our people do not support the proposition, then it should not be put."

This is crazy stuff, holding race-based votes over race-based laws. It's even crazier when you consider that many prominent Aborigines have just as much European ancestry as Aboriginal, and often much more. But I'm forbidden on legal advice for saying more on that subject, such are our laws and my predicament.