If invasion and colonisation was not a crime, or wasn’t so bad after all for the Indigenous peoples of Australia, then why is Australia, as part of the Five Eyes group, coordinating efforts to defend against such an assault? It is worth pondering what is the worst that the ‘average’ Australia could imagine. The same argument levelled at Aboriginals that they should not complain or raise their voice given if it wasn’t ‘us’, it would have been someone else.
Peter Dutton has taken a safe stance on the Voice and this may be his political concerns; but it isn’t in the wider context of defence of Country where Indigenous investment is measured by the heart in spite of a most cruel history.
I feel that the Uluru Statement from the Heart is a process in which we as a nation can reconcile that past in order to mend that heart and put us in good standing, rather than treat Indigenous peoples with such unmerited suspicion, angst and even anger.
The Voice misinformation is not worth regurgitating, it is the victory Australia needs to better inform her government in an independent (of which party is serving) advisory body to ensure that her legacy to her original inhabitants is included in the future stewardship of our country. Other treaties have been made and rescinded elsewhere but this one involves a process of coming together and walking with the Indigenous peoples.
For me a ‘Yes’ vote is a vote for sovereignty.
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. 
