According to opinion polls earlier this year, it appeared as though the proposed Voice to Parliament was headed for a win.
Most recent polls have shown an increase in the number of undecided voters and a gradual decline in the Yes vote.piece for SkyNews.com.au, I argued that because Australians are a fair-minded people, the Voice might well pass unless the No campaign exposes the existential threat that comes with it.
After the landslide win at the last election in March 2021, Labor went on to pass reforms to protect Aboriginal cultural heritage, which ended up going too far.The Yes campaign's aggressive separatism goes counter to the core principle of our national psyche - that everyone gets a fair go, no matter what, writes Dr. Sherry Sufi. Picture: Tamati Smith/Getty Images
Add to this, the enormous amount of red tape that Western Australian land-owners needed to go through under these reforms to own, occupy or operate on land that was deemed to possess Aboriginal heritage.In a sellout community forum on Thursday night alongside WA Upper House MP Nick Goiran, Mr Abbott went on to make the point that, while WA Labor’s reforms could be repealed, if the Voice got up, it would be permanent.
“Makarrata is another word for Treaty or agreement-making. It is the culmination of our agenda.” “Treaty would be the vehicle to achieve self-determination, autonomy and self-government. The true history of colonisation must be told, the genocides, the massacre, the wars and the on-going injustices and discrimination.” They’re straight out of the extended version of the Uluru Statement and were even featured in the final report of the Referendum Council.More and more undecided Australians are starting to feel turned off by the divisive rhetoric of the Yes campaign.
We don’t have a hierarchical class structure as the English and European aristocratic systems had maintained for centuries.We’re a country that looks to equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome.Yet in the eyes of the Yes campaign, it seems the only principle guiding their agenda is one of separatism.
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