In Australia the racial contract began with invasion and colonisation; indeed, it may be thought of asa racial colonial contract. Aboriginal peoples were dispossessed from their lands, disenfranchised,dominated and disqualified from the very category of personhood through legislation and policiesthat ensured their social, political and economic exclusion. Within the earlier iterations of the racialcontract, Indigenous peoples were treated as sub-persons and explicitly excluded from equalstatus.

Critically reflect on this statement by Dr Debbie Bargallie, Indigenous author ofUnmasking TheRacial Contract: Indigenous Voices on Racism in the Australian Public Service.Support yourreflection by reference to the following materials that you have studied in this Subject and the impactthat these materials have had on your perspective of the role that race plays in contract law:

a.One or more of the theoretical perspectives and/or critiques underpinning contract law.b.The dominant assumptions that contract law is based on.

c.The case ofAustralian Securities and Investments Commission v Kobelt[2019] HCA 18.