Thankfully, the Indigenous Voice referendum seems unstoppably headed for defeat. Australians, sensibly, are increasingly revolting against the idea of turning Australia into an apartheid state, with Constitutionally-mandated racial separatism.
If the chaos unleashed in Western Australia by that state’s Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act isn’t warning enough, Australians just got another preview of what a Voice will look like in practice.
Under-siege Alice Springs residents were forced to endure another terrifying weekend of out-of-control crime while the nation’s top politicians mingled at a $5,000-a-piece festival in the Top End.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney and several high profile Voice campaigners were among attendees at the Garma Festival in remote northeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory – the nation’s single largest Indigenous gathering.
So, a handful of “Big Man” elites, were whooping it up on the taxpayer dime, while just down the road (in Territory Terms), gangs of Aboriginal children are running amok.
But 1,700km south of the festival, Alice Springs was gripped by a crime spree which saw a nursing home bus stolen, the airport and university broken into and several car windows shattered.
Locals reported the Alice Springs Old Timers Aged Care Home shuttle bus was stolen overnight on Saturday – the same night CCTV footage shows children loitering inside the airport hangar.
‘Residents at the village look forward to their bus trips, even [those] who live with dementia know what days the bus trips are,’ one person said.
‘Unfortunately this is our only bus for Old Timers residents. Don’t these kids realise that they are possibly stealing from their own Grandparents/elders.
‘It is extremely upsetting and disappointing! Now we will have to explain why we can’t go on the bus for who knows how long.’
Extraordinary CCTV footage shows the Alice Springs Aero Club was targeted a short while later […]
Charles Sturt University campus in Sadadeen was also broken into the same night, just after 1am. There, the offenders ’caused significant damage to the building and its contents,’ police said.
Another incident occurred 15 minutes later at a government office.
So, where were Albo and his Gucci-wearing Minister for Indigenous Affairs?
Politicians were in the NT at the weekend celebrating at the Garma Festival and touting their Voice to Parliament […]
Garma is an annual festival held on sacred Gumatj Bunggul ground in Gulkula every year in August.
Not so sacred that a few grand of gibsmedat won’t serve as an all-access welcome to country.
Tickets for the festival started at $1,650 for school students, $2,750 for adults, and $5,000 for a corporate pass.
The Daily Mail
Albanese and Burney have form on this, of course. It was only a few months ago that the PM jetted into Alice for an “emergency summit” on the town’s uncontrolled violent crime — a summit which barely lasted a few hours, before “Airbus Albo” raced back south to spend whole days in courtside seats at the tennis.
BFD readers will be only too familiar with this sort of tribal feather-bedding, where Iwi elites rake in small fortunes, while Bro Average in South Auckland struggles to scrape by.
At its worst, a Voice will set Australia on the path to South Africa or Zimbabwe, where tribal strongmen rule the roost and the country goes down the toilet.