Peter Sharp
Peter Sharp is the great-grandson of former Australian Prime Minister Alfred Deakin. This submission presents evidence that Alfred Deakin "had a belief that he was chosen by a Higher Power to work for the creation of a nation for Anglo-Saxons only and that, beginning with the passing of the so called 'Half-caste Act' of 1886 when he was Chief Secretary of the Colony of Victoria to his definition, as Federal Attorney General in 1901 that: "...half-castes are not 'aboriginal natives...", he pursued a very carefully disguised policy of attempting the eventual elimination of all Aboriginal people and Aboriginal culture which can only be escribed as attempted genocide".
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