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(4) In this section, a reference to:
         (a) any acts done includes a reference to any failure to do an act;

Are politicians allowed to change the structure of a language that way?

And then there is this little pearler.

(1) Subject to subsection (3), the provisions of this Act, and any acts 11 done under or for the purposes of those provisions, are, for the 12 purposes of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975, special measures.

i.e., Anything we say that seems racially inappropriate or illegal is, by this definition, not bound by existing race legislation.

Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Northern Territory National Emergency Response and Other Measures) Bill 2007