It’s about indigeneity. What’s the difference? Race is about skin colour. Indigeneity is about first peoples. Australia is home to various races but has only one first people.
As Noel Pearson has said in years past: “If we were in Lapland, we would be blond and blue-eyed and we’d still be Indigenous.
This line won her laughs and applause from some in her audience including the leader of her party, the Nationals, David Littleproud. Her implicit message – all races suffer the same, why should one get a Voice and not others? But, of course, it’s an ahistorical effort to equate two very unequal histories.
Price also claimed that Indigenous Australians suffered no ill effects from colonisation. Well might Littleproud laugh at this; Price’s radical denialism is laughable. Another leading Yes advocate says that their campaign is hampered by “a massive educational hole” among the broader public. We are limited in how much we can push the point of Indigenous disadvantage, he says, because many Australians aren’t aware of its seriousness.
All of which helps explain why the opinion polls show that support for the Voice has been in continuous decline all year. But the campaign proper begins on Sunday. The Voice advocates say that the tide of public opinion can be turned in the remaining four weeks.
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