Tagged: racism
Is the Voice doomed?
More surveys and polls indicate that a ‘Yes’ vote in the upcoming referendum is looking less and less likely.
The conservatives support a ‘No’ vote, of course, and their stand is not about politics, point scoring, or wanting to stick it up the Labor Government rather than progressing First Australians lives, of course! And the sky is green and the moon is made of cheese!
The naysayers’ arguments can be refuted easily, but the bottom line of their stand is not about logic or thoughtful consideration. It’s this: once again, non Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people, will decide what’s best for them!
Argue about the legalities, the Constitutional niceties, or why it’s all too complicated however much you like, but the reality is that it’s about racism.
The Voice is getting laryngitis
Support in Australia for the proposed indigenous Voice to Parliament is waning – now less than 50% in the last survey and heading south!
It may be early days in the ‘yes’ and ‘no’ campaigns, but at this point the likelihood of the yes side securing a majority of votes in a majority of States is a bit bleak.
Conservative forces have been successful in sowing doubt in people’s minds. For example: not enough detail about how it would work; the Voice will interfere in the day to day minutiae of government; Indigenous Australians only want a treaty.
The vast majority of those conservatives are not Indigenous Australians, but that’s ok because it is right and proper and normal that IAs get told what is best for them by people who know.
NO, it’s not right and it’s not proper! If this referendum is lost it will be a shining beacon on just how racist Australia really is.
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