What is really driving the Yes vote? Does anybody properly understand the proposition, or are they so consumed with white guilt they are blind to understanding the dangers of a constitutional change? Or, are they falling for the groupthink that sent Europe into the tulip mania frenzy in the 1600s? Or, maybe, they are just useful, unwitting tools of the UN 2030 Agenda…?
If George Williams argues ‘there is no requirement for Parliament or the executive to wait for the Voice to speak or to act in accordance with representations’ and the Solicitor-General agrees (The Australian, May 1, 2023), then why are there so many other esteemed constitutional experts disagreeing?
Is it because Professor Megan Davis insists the Voice will have the right to speak to the whole spectrum of agencies?
As the Brennan brothers continue to argue about the legal implications of a proposal, there is obviously serious controversy here, so why take the risk with the Constitution when we can’t be definite about the benefits?
Why is the government spending an estimated $235 million on promoting the Yes vote?
Why do we need to do this if there is even the smallest risk to our national governance?
Why has the Prime Minister agreed for the parliamentary process to be potentially undermined?
Where is the detail?
Who exactly will form the Voice?
How will they be elected?
How will it be funded?
How much to allocate?
How much bureaucratic support will it require?
There is something that does not feel right about this entire process. It is difficult to avoid feeling that a very persistent, sophisticated, and devious group of people is having us on. In fact, it is likely that this is, eventually, going to be revealed as the greatest swifty ever attempted to be put over the Australian people.
Why hasn’t the country woken up to the fact that we already have a Voice? It is being ignored. Not even discussed.
The little-known Aboriginal-run National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) was established by Executive Order on 29 May 2019 to ensure ‘Aboriginal and Torres have a say in the decisions that affect them’ and that they are ‘heard, recognised, and empowered’. According to the NIAA Annual Report over 1,000 employees in 2021-22 spent $2 billion providing service delivery, advice to the Prime Minister and Minister for Indigenous Affairs, and co-ordinating policy development and implementation of Australia’s Closing the Gap targets in partnership with Indigenous Australians. Just as the Voice proposes to do.
If a constitutionally empowered Voice is a vehicle for empowering the Indigenous, it follows this will involve an actual transfer of power to an elite minority. This is frightening. Even the HRC says it will undermine the foundational human rights principles of equality and non-discrimination.
Is a Voice going to any more effective than the NIAA? It could be, as the object of the Uluru Statement is to gain power for a selected elite. Nothing less, as without it, there is no power to interfere. But then if the NIAA with its $2bn budget and massive government resources can’t solve the problems of disadvantage, why would the Voice be any different?
The only way the problems are going to be solved is from within, as 80 per cent of Indigenous people have shown through their success. Looking back and blaming others for a culture of dysfunction will not progress their children’s future. That is not to say that they were not treated badly in many instances in the past, but on balance it could equally be argued that those benefits of Western Civilization ultimately flowed through, as today’s academics and activists living comfortably is a testament. This is clearly the path the minority needs to follow.
You cannot continue to live in a tribal ancient culture surrounded by modernity and not take advantage of its benefits. As long as Aboriginal leaders insist on culture first, rather than the value of Western Civilization as a primary focus, the young are going to be denied the opportunity to advance and be the best they can possibly be.
We see it in Aboriginal AFL footballers getting the opportunity to grow and develop. Where it is good, it is something to be valued, just as other ethnic groups in Australia have retained and celebrated their culture, but as Australians first benefitting from all that Western Civilisation offers.
How many times have we heard of happily fostered children being sent back to violent households because it satisfies legislated cultural requirements? Never mind the child’s welfare. And where are the parents in all of this?
The Voice is all about a power grab by the elites. God Help this country if it gets up for we will have handed over our national sovereignty to a minority based on racial ancestry. Australia will be changed forever.
