If the Voice to Parliament is the wondrous advance that the crazy-eyed morality police want us to believe, then why do its proponents-in-chief continually shy away from answering the single most pressing question about its credibility?
The Voice is all about creating another bureaucracy, but not one politician, activist, or keyboard warrior is willing or able to explain how, exactly, a new bureaucracy will fix the chronic disadvantage, social misery, and shortened life spans that afflict the most marginalised Aboriginal Australians.
Bureaucracies are notorious failures when it comes to achieving actual results and it is unrealistic to expect that the Voice will be any different. It is, however, guaranteed to expand the legions of taxpayer-funded jobs. Anybody who claims that the Voice will begin and end with the people who make up that body (whoever they may be and however they may be picked) is either fibbing, living in a state of wilful denial, or too young to remember the debacle that was the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission.
Prime Minister Albanese and his clutch of yes-men desperately want to pretend that the Voice is not a new bureaucracy because to admit that it is might give away a pattern they hope nobody has spotted. Labor uses any excuse to expand the public sector, because they see desk-bound paper-pushers as a replacement for the traditional blue-collar voters who have deserted them.
Ask yourself how many times the following scenario has played out in recent years.
Woke activists, within or outside Parliament, manufacture a sense of crisis over their latest cause. Labor establishes a group filled with grossly ambitious flunkies who are tasked with ‘investigating’ and reporting back. The flunkies – knowing exactly how to keep the love flowing their way – invariably recommend setting up a new public sector body of some ilk, to ‘oversee’ their endless froth of other recommendations. And existing agencies get more resources to create made-up sounding positions to ‘implement’ those recommendations.
Labor’s mates, ex-Labor politicians, and staffers, aspiring Labor politicians, and anybody else who has enough ambition and ego to make them easily controllable get appointed to the senior ranks of those bodies. In between hosting rainbow-cupcake morning teas and waffling about ‘cultural change’ as they ignore the homeless people sitting outside their swanky office buildings, those appointees compliantly push whatever elite ideology the Labor party is spruiking at any given moment.
Surprise, surprise, nothing changes apart from more zeros getting added to the amount of taxpayer’s money being funnelled into this rort.
The size and number of bureaucracies we have is a direct measure of how dependent the population is, in one form or another, on government. Labor has spent years expanding the public sector – not to mention the number of shonky quangos and friendly consultants – because they are banking on the likelihood that the more people there are who rely on a government-funded job, the more people there will be who vote Labor in order to keep that job.
The worry of keeping food on the table and a roof over our heads is something most of us share. But this does not change the fact that Labor’s constant expansion of bureaucracy is about bringing as many people as possible onto the teat of government largesse. Somehow, though, Labor have managed to conceal this behind chest-beating about nurses, teachers, and frontline police – as if those are the only ‘real’ public sector employees.
Labor’s policies were once about making life better for everyday Australians. Now, Laborites not only lack the skills, ability, and experience to fix real problems, but have no incentive to even try. Labor’s very existence relies on continually inventing vast reams of emotion-driven ‘social justice’ issues that get broader and more nebulous, and justify ever greater public sector growth, as time goes by. There is always the carrot to nice, middle-class voters of a well-paid job if Labor is in power and the stick of impending unemployment if it is not.
Don’t believe this? Just think about Canberra. Or consider Queensland. That state has squirmed under the bungling thumb of grossly incompetent Labor ninnies for almost a decade, largely because Labor have campaigned on the Liberal National Party decimating public sector jobs.
If the Voice succeeds, then having the weight of the Constitution on their side will simply legitimise Labor’s self-serving strategy of passing off public sector growth as the answer for everything. And that is the best way possible to make sure life will only get worse for everyone other than the Labor Party.
Lillian Andrews writes about politics, society, feminism, and anything else that interests her. You can find her on Twitter @SaysAwfulThings.
