Consider the Voice in the context of recent revelations of the lack of transparency in government which, amongst other things, threatens government revenue raising and expenditure.
There are daily reports of rorts. Accounting firms share sensitive tax information with clients, politicians repeatedly authorise massive spending in their favoured electorates, Robodebt ‘recoveries’ breach the law, a prime minister has himself signed into a portfolio unbeknown to the actual minister, expensive enquiries expose ministers behaving badly.
I raise this because I feel people are being blindsided by the talk of Voice costings, without consideration of the essence of the Voice proposal. The Voice will have ‘presence’ and ‘purpose’.
‘Presence’ in that it will be subject to constant surveillance by us as electors and the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), which provides:
‘The design principles [of NACC] include that members of the Voice would fall within the scope of the NACC. In addition, members would be sanctioned or removed from the Voice in cases of serious misconduct.’
The Voice will also have the constant scrutiny of its principal ‘purposes’: to close the gap in Indigenous health education, housing, and employment. So all the large budget allocations in these areas are put to more effective use.
It’s a very simple equation. You want transparency and better outcomes in these respects then give the Voice a chance.
Sorry Frank. Trust anything Albo is involved with. No chance, not untill he fulfilled his pre election promises. Remember?. Electricity prises to come down, cost of living lowered. All he has done is throw us under a bus, can anyone deny that?.
Well your mob privatised everything Greg – there’s not much to be done about rising prices. Plus there’s been the little matter of a war in Ukraine.
What exactly were we depending on Russia and Ukraine for? Fertiliser maybe? The govt wants to ban that anyway.
I’ve explained it to you before Christian. The price our locals can get on the international market very much determines the price we pay here as well. Except in WA
I don’t think we’re depending on fertiliser; there’s enough bovine excrement in this country to supply all our needs.
People complain about corruption, create NACC to rubber stamp everything uncorrupt. Problems with the natives? Create the Voice to rubber stamp everything ‘rainbow serpent friendly’. It’s in their best interest to appear to fix problems, but in their best interests to make sure those problem persist. If there were no existential problems, you wouldn’t ‘need’ a government. Solutions that don’t create more problems than they solve, are anathema to centralised governence.
The facts are Lizardbreath, Albo lied and lied and lied before the last election just about everything. Don’t bring up privatisation and the war, you know that is a smoke screen to hide the incompetent government that has ignored the people, Albo’s only care is the voice referendum. The suffering people come second. He will pay dearly next election.
Lied and lied and lied?
Restoring Australia’s international reputation ✅
Thawing relations with China ✅
Legislated emissions targets of 43 per cent by 2030 and net zero by 2050 ✅
Tightening the safeguard mechanism that imposes emissions limits on the country’s 214 largest-polluting facilities ✅
The housing Australia Future Fund and other housing initiatives ✅
Increased rent assistance ✅
Wage increases for the lowest paid ✅
Restoring the budget to surplus ✅- (they didn’t even promise that)
Federal integrity commission ✅
Cheaper medicines ✅
Increased childcare subsidies ✅
Urgent care clinics ✅
A referendum on the Voice to parliament ✅
I’m sure there are others but just 🍒 pick the one that clearly has been impacted by external circumstances. Only the economically innumerate suggest the war has had no impact on the cost of energy and commodities.
Well done oh great one. Now have a go at the broken promises. Forget that, I have asked you to cut back the content of your contributions. My request would fill 10 pages.
Was that an injection of humour?
You really can’t identify if someone is taking the urine out of you or just adding a little humour. So sad oh great one. Now how’s about the broken promise list?. Or is that a little above your sense of humour tolerance.?. If it wasn’t so serious it would be be a great laugh.
I think it can depend on the skill and coherence of the urine taker!
Don’t give me homework, I’ll decide what I post – give us the 10 pages yourself.