Indigenous Australians are as divided by income and wealth as any group in Australia however, the fact is 1 in 2 First Nation Peoples live far, far, below the poverty line, which isn’t the case for Australians as a whole. They are represented as the lowest on every social metric. Price and Mundine are regarded as “coconuts” or “plastic “Koories” and not real Indigenous Australians as they aren’t part of the majority or 70%  nor do they accept the generation after generation of social trauma and the consequences passed down by colonialism that haven’t been resolved for 250 years. The fact, that Indigenous Australians weren’t even recognized as full citizens until 1969. And they still remain under the administration of an Aboriginal Affairs Department whose promises budgets, plans, and strategies have changed like the weather with minimal success.

Yes23 is a simple request to be listened to with the hope of more self-administration of social welfare and other issues decided “in the communities” by being allowed some input by the First Nation peoples themselves. To be allowed the self-respect that was never allowed to grow and develop.

Stan Grant Adam Goodes, Jacinta Price, and Warren Mundine might all be part of the middle-class professional minority but they too are divided in who they are speaking for. As are Noel Pearson Marcia Langton and Lidia Thorpe. The Upper class Indigenous are as politically divided as white people are but their divisions are better resolved among the First Nations Peoples themselves than the Colonial political system imposed on them by the white fella that’s failed them until now. The Voice and/or Treaty might reveal the complexity and political division among Indigenous Australians but The Uluru Statement and process that resulted in the request for a Voice is the majority and result of by Indigenous Australians themselves. That year of effort put in was dismissed by the Turnbull LNP without discussion politically pushed by Dutton’s far-right “Monkey Pod Room”, a far-right minority of Liberals and the National Party. Those who believe in ignoring and denying the reality and historical facts of colonialism and the reality of better outcomes of a Voice for Indigeneity given by most other Nations on the planet.

The ‘disinformation’ (read: lies and bullshit) being propagated about the indigenous Voice to Parliament by the Murdoch media, among others, harms our society. It promotes division, celebrates and cultivates ignorance and bigotry, oppresses a minority and diminishes us all. Why do we tolerate such behaviour?

Source: Freedom of the press barons? – Pearls and Irritations