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.
The history of Australia is, indeed, being bastardised, and the fairy tale version of pre-colonial Aboriginal Culture, that has been created since the 70s, when compared to all other stone-age cultures, would lead one to believe Aboriginals are from another planet. If you continue with the mandatory ‘racism’/’disadvantage’ mindset, you will never make things better for them, in fact, you will continue to get in their way.