Category: The Voice

By John Mikkelsen

The Voice debate – like many Australians I’m over it, and I decided a long time ago it’s a big NO from me.

I’m reminded of a question posed decades ago by American physicist, Professor Julius Sumner Miller in TV ads promoting a famous brand of chocolate, “Why is it so?”

There’s an easy answer. The Voice is a move to enshrine an unelected advisory body in the Australian Constitution which will further divide our great nation on racial grounds. QED, Julius, to sum up: It’s racist. Continue reading “The Voice – I’m Over it!”

The Uluru Statement from the Heart is a vulnerable document. It is sometimes silent when Aboriginal failures are visible, but vocal in condemning Australian people for misdeeds that never happened.

Without doubt, the Indigenous people have had many legitimate grievances about their sufferings and slights ever since British convicts and marines arrived in 1788. Hosts of Aboriginal people were killed in frontier conflict, though the historians’ statistics of death tend to contradict each other. Most Indigenous people died from diseases to which they had no immunity, and such deaths far exceed those suffered in warfare since 1788. Continue reading “Geoffrey Blainey on “The Voice””

Read the items on this Canadian receipt. They have the equivalent to our proposed “Voice”. This is a small part of what you can expect.

By David Barton

In 1983, as a naïve youth worker and concerned by what I had been reading since the early 1970s about what was happening with Aborigines in Alice Springs, I moved there to see what I could do to help. All told, I spent six years in Central Australia, leaving both depressed and convinced that the situation could never be fixed. One thing that bothered me then and still does is the constant calls for ‘self-determination’, not so much by Aborigines but by whitefella activists, some I later learned to be card-carrying members of the Communist Party and others who now hold senior positions in academia and the bureaucracy.

The contemporary definition of ‘Aboriginal self-determination’ is not about fitting in with the mainstream, of integrating or assimilating, but of splitting from mainstream Australia. Meanwhile, the rest of us get to pay for it whilst the rent seekers contribute very little to the community and Aboriginal lives, including those of children, continue to be ruined.

Continue reading at Quadrant: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/12/always-was-always-will-be-about-power/

By Viv Forbes

Australian Aboriginals already have many voices funded by taxpayers.

The loudest is their ABC – just watch Landline, or see: https://www.abc.net.au/indigenous.

Look up NIAA for a start. https://www.niaa.gov.au/

And listen here:
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/outsiders/australia-already-has-a-voice-to-parliament-with-the-national-indigenous-australians-agency/video/acda9b2fa37a02e2f60183503c192e5f

And at least one state (South Australia), aims for its own Indigenous Voice:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-11/south-australia-first-jurisdiction-indigenous-voice-parliament/102082662

Divisive Voices:

Australia already has an Indigenous Voice to Parliament:
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/03/rowan-dean-we-dont-need-a-voice-because-we-already-have-one/

Giving Racism an Aussie Voice:
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/09/giving-racism-an-aussie-voice/

Sky News host Kel Richards says people in favour and against all call the Voice to Parliament “the Voice” but they are “wrong”. “The truth is it will not be ‘the Voice’ but ‘the Second Voice’ that Indigenous Australians will have to our parliament,” Mr Richards said. “Because Indigenous Australians already have the same voice to parliament you have. “What they are asking for is a second Voice, over and above our democracy.”

By David Barton

In 1983, as a naïve youth worker and concerned by what I had been reading since the early 1970s about what was happening with Aborigines in Alice Springs, I moved there to see what I could do to help. All told, I spent six years in Central Australia, leaving both depressed and convinced that the situation could never be fixed. …

Unfortunately, much of what passes for Aboriginal ‘culture’ today is an invention of the last 50 years. Fortunately, much authentic Aboriginal culture of the past has vanished. The gruesome initiations, genital mutilation, inflicted cicatrices, burns, ritual spearings, sorcery and payback murders have by and large disappeared. Nevertheless, inter-tribe clan grievances often remain, as can be seen at some football indigenous matches, both on the field and amongst the spectators. Even though these encounters can still become violent, at least those conflicts are mostly played out with a football, not spears and clubs.

Read the full article: https://wentworthreport.com/2022/12/19/australias-aboriginal-industry-always-was-always-will-be-about-power/