Abstract
In this second part, the article recognises the time that the High Court has ‘bought’ the nation to allow it to address long-standing injustices. This part argues that common law protections are inadequate when faced with an Executive that is populist and panders to the worst elements of its support base, with more political mileage to be gained through talk about war with China over Taiwan, or vaccines and border lockdowns. For the nation and for Black lives, however, constitutional entrenchment of racial equality will provide the best protection available under the current system. Failure of ‘the people’ to force their leaders to entrench racial equality is a blight on the entire community, with irrational fears created by the Executive being the veil that blinds the majority to injustice or that Black lives do matter in White Australia.
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