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Slip of paper enclosed between pages 2368 and 2369 marking second reading speech (Sir Robert Menzies), Constitution Alteration (Repeal of Section 127) Bill 1965. Begins: 'The purpose of this Bill is to alter the Constitution by repealing section 127. That section provides that in reckoning the numbers of people of the Commonwealth, or of a State or other part of the Commonwealth, Aboriginal natives shall not be counted.'