I am writing specifically against Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s advocacy for a ‘No’ vote on the Voice to parliament. The argument she put that stuck with me was that one of the main premises of the Voice is to ‘Close the Gap’. If this is one of the main reasons people wish to vote ‘Yes’, you should know that it is in ‘perpetuity’ and this logic entails the lack of a Voice once the ‘gap’ is closed.
Spurious attributions of a desire for power over other Australians is then attributed to the Voice being institutionalised if the ‘gap’ is closed.
This speculation should not be taken as proof. Any serious assessment shows a record of government programs disempowering, a pattern of dropping the ball, a landscape of devastation in which you have to pay more than I can afford – to see nothing has changed. I see deliberation in it.
Price said that since the Voice was put on the table by the current government, it has caused ‘division’ in our nation.
FFS elections call for division, and call for people to consider who they wish to vote for – if they trust the electoral system at all. The rest of the division has nothing to do with calling a vote, it has to do with a bastardised history of Australia that only the little children welcome without judgment. Only by facing what happened can you understand and fight racism towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
