Readers question why people are choosing to vote Yes or No in the referendum.
To me it wasn’t just Martin Luther King jnr’s visionary “I have a dream” speech of 1963. It wasn’t only the belated 1967 referendum recognising Aboriginal people in the Constitution, or the tragic irony of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy outside Parliament House in 1972 which I used to walk past on my way to school, or even Whitlam’s poignant pouring a handful of soil into Vincent Lingiari’s hand in 1975 recognising prior ownership of the land.
Only fools think the victory of No will fix the problem; far, far from it. What is required is a vote of no confidence — in our present ridiculous government and a declaration of who the recipients of the many billions of support dollars to the Aboriginal cause are.I recently holidayed with my Aboriginal family in Townsville. On one occasion my niece and I went to the supermarket to get a few items for dinner. As we pulled up I asked her to pop in while I found a park.
Perhaps mistakes may have been made in the way that the referendum question was structured, but while the PM will no doubt shoulder the blame for this, he was guided as always by his team of advisers from the First Nations people to keep the message and the question simple. Governments and some politicians in some countries ignore or excuse blatant Israeli human rights violations and breaches of international laws do neither side a favour. This just creates more obstacles to a just peace.
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