The cloud of mendaciousness and elitist obfuscation around the “Indigenous Voice” push grows ever denser and more malodorous. The longer this latest leftist fad plays out, the more it comes to resemble the 1999 Republican referendum: an activists’ picnic, no ordinary Australians allowed. We’re supposed to wait for whatever fait accompli the elite deign to present to us and obediently vote for it.
Except, in ’99, Australians didn’t. The left-elite have never forgiven them. This time around, they’re determined to get their way.
As the government seeks opinions from the public and professional and community organisations to help finalise the design of the voice — a mechanism for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to have a say in the laws and policies that affect them — early responses suggest the design process will be dominated by the unresolved question of constitutional enshrinement.
A formal submission from 43 senior lawyers, academics and researchers in public law flatly ignores the government’s repeated attempts to steer the debate away from whether or not Australians will be asked at a referendum whether the words should be added to the Constitution to protect the voice.
Australians have every right to be suspicious of this divisive, racist nonsense. First, one of its most senior proponents proclaims that we should vote first, get told what we’re actually voting for later. Now, we’re being told that we have no choice but to alter the constitution – but in what manner, they won’t say.
We can get an idea, though.
Supporters of the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart, which calls for the voice as meaningful constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians, are signalling they will not lie down. They are refusing to embrace an Indigenous voice that could be, in their words, merely legislated.
Anyone who reads the prettily-named “Statement from the Heart” with clear eyes and even a modicum of critical thought ought to run a mile from it. The Statement talks repeatedly of “Aboriginal sovereignty”: in other words, it’s a blueprint for a separate, Aboriginal ethnostate.
The Morrison government is once again getting an object lesson in the folly of pandering to leftist campaigns. As conservatives too often do, the government apparently thinks that it can mollify the left by giving an inch, only to find, to their clueless shock, that the left relentlessly push for the whole mile and more.
While submissions on the cabinet-backed voice report are intended to be limited to feedback on the practicalities of proposed designs such as how Indigenous people in remote and regional areas can be heard in Canberra, The Australian has been told constitutional enshrinement is emerging as a major theme.
The Australian
The whole idea of the “Voice” is redundant nonsense. Aboriginal Australians already have a “voice”, the same one every Australian has, regardless of race, creed or colour: their vote.
The left are determined to enshrine racial separatism in our constitution. This is not just a foolish move, it is downright evil – good intentions, be damned.
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