If the Voice is established, the moderates who seek reconciliation will risk losing control of our heritage to the radicals who seek decolonisation, writes Dr. Sherry Sufi.
Not the least of which is that we’re a race-blind country where everyone gets the same rights and the Voice would override this by giving one group special privileges.Despite these concerns, it isn’t surprising the proposal seems to be resonating.As early as 1967, almost 91 per cent Australians voted"Yes" in the referendum to count Indigenous Australians in the census and be able to make laws for them.
Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe is pictured during the Treaty Before Voice Invasion Day Protest on January 26 in Melbourne. Picture: Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty ImagesAs for the"No" campaign, the way that’s being run almost sounds like we’re preaching to the converted. Conservatives who mount this argument are the types that still romanticise over their success in the 1999 republic referendum.
The predisposition to fairness was always there, but the public still needed to be won over on both principle and modelling. We can’t get behind this principle because it poses an existential threat to the country we live in. I agreed in my Australia Day piece there is plenty of work still to be done to help overcome Indigenous disadvantage.The fact that their descendants today make up less than 4 per cent of the population isn’t something we would appreciate being done to us.
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