The Hawke-Labor government established ATSIC in 1990 ‘so that aboriginals could be involved in the processes of government affecting their lives’.

It failed and was abolished by John Howard with support from Labor in 2005.

Canberra also created other voices such as the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee and the National Indigenous Council. Australia has the voices of 11 members of Parliament claiming Aboriginal heritage.

In addition to these representations, Australian governments, both state and federal, spend over $30 billion on Aboriginal matters including the bloated National Indigenous Australians Agency with 39 offices and 1,200 employees.

We are now being asked to support yet another Aboriginal Voice.

This Voice will also fail, and when it does, it will require another costly and divisive referendum to abolish it from the Constitution.

Let us save all this expense and stress by voting ‘No’ now.