Indigenous Voice to parliament, taxing the elderly, intergenerational wealth gap, saving Callan Park.
In considering the crazy idea that the Australian states should federate, it is just as well our great-grandparents were not as easily spooked by the possibility of making a terrible mistake as some are about the risks of enacting the Indigenous Voice to parliament.
While Indigenous leaders point to the large amount of instructive material available suggesting what a Voice could mean,are highly ambiguous. If a referendum is passed based on the words he proposes, the “Voice” could literally be anything politicians then put into law. And I certainly don’t trust them to accurately reflect what I’m being told is the intent of the constitutional change.
It is obvious that if an electoral process is adopted, the Voice would instantly become a de facto third chamber of parliament.A more basic objection to the entire proposal is that all citizens of liberal democracies such as Australia are equal, with equal rights and responsibilities. The constitutions of such nations should be silent on matters of race, ethnicity and religion.
Third, the attack on older Australians’ principal place of residence is simply a tax grab based on prejudice and false logic. Of course older Australians will have, for the most part, greater equity and value in their homes than young people, simply because they have had more years to own and pay down the mortgage.
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