Tag: The Voice

“If The Voice Loses It Will Be Albanese’s Fault!” – » The Australian Independent Media Network

“If The Voice Loses It Will Be Albanese’s Fault!”

Yep, I saw that on the front page of “The Australian” a few days ago and I was tempted to steal the paper but then I remembered that theft is one of those Ten Commandment things that still gets enforced by law and, more frightening than any jail term is the fear that I could go down in history as someone who thought that one of Murdoch’s papers was worse stealing.

Source: “If The Voice Loses It Will Be Albanese’s Fault!” – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Old Dog Thought- Rowan Dean has the ratings appeal of medical waste

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“just be more right wing bro I swear bro one more push to the right bro and we’ll finally win an election bro I swear this is what we need to do bro just one more push bro”

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Murdoch Media ““ ‘Lawyers backing Yes for money’, may it please the court”.

The heart of the nation

The Australian headlines Stuart Wood (Vic) comment on NSW’s Bar Association support for The Voice has to be the lowest historical dog act ever seen in the Australian media. They might as well have headlined a KKK comment from the USA for the relevance Wood’s words have for the NSW Association

“The headline crawled across the front of The Australian like a Warren Zevon song: “ ‘Lawyers backing Yes for money’, may it please the court”.

Source: Stuart Wood  describes support for the Voice as a commercial decision

Solicitor-General’s advice on voice to be made public – Michael West

Mr Albanese said Mr Dutton was raising questions and doubts “by not having any substance to his opposition” to the voice.

The Liberal Party has called for a legislated, but not constitutionally enshrined, voice process involving representative local and regional bodies.

Mr Albanese said he had made it clear there would be local and regional bodies, which may differ across the states and territories.

He pointed to South Australia’s decision to set up a state voice.

“It’s quite clear that the national voice would work with state voices, were they to be established as well,” he said.

“So clearly we want to hear from local communities, working the way up. But you need a national voice as well.”

 

Source: Solicitor-General’s advice on voice to be made public – Michael West

The Voice is not revolutionary or threatening. Why is Peter Dutton and the Coalition opposing the modest change?

The Voice is not revolutionary or threatening. So, why is the Coalition opposing the modest change?

A paternalistic Coalition thinks it knows better than Australia’s Indigenous peoples what is best for them, perpetuating our long neo-colonial legacy of exclusionary governance.

Source: The Voice is not revolutionary or threatening. Why is Peter Dutton and the Coalition opposing the modest change?

Old Dog Thought- The Monkey Pod Room said “No” to the broad and moderate voices in the Party and turned their backs on their electorates

May be art

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Liberal opposition to voice ‘business as usual’ – Michael West

Stuart Robert expressed it when he said ” As a Cabinet member I’m obliged to lie” and not represent the people of my electorate. Dutton agreed when he said under my leadership the Shadow Cabinet will not be allowed  a conscience

A split is looming for the Liberals over the Indigenous voice to parliament as its architects warn the party’s opposition is a “vote for business as usual”.

Source: Liberal opposition to voice ‘business as usual’ – Michael West

‘Why risk racial harmony?’: Key Lib queries voice vote – Michael West

The federal opposition has questioned the wisdom of holding a referendum on an Indigenous voice later this year, putting a dampener on hopes of bipartisan support for the landmark vote.

Source: ‘Why risk racial harmony?’: Key Lib queries voice vote – Michael West

The reality that supports the recognition of the Voice – Pearls and Irritations

Albanese may well want to have an Aboriginal Affairs Minister in cabinet with its own department, demonstrating his commitment to the Uluru Statement. Image: Pixabay

Historically the belief in equality and equal citizenship has motivated actions aimed at remedying Aboriginal discrimination and disadvantage. It underlay the success of the 1967 referendum. Supporters of separate Aboriginal medical and legal services in the 1970s saw that what were supposed to be universal service providers often did not provide for Aboriginal people. There were discriminatory and cultural barriers between disadvantaged Aboriginal people and the services that were meant to provide for all.

Source: The reality that supports the recognition of the Voice – Pearls and Irritations

Voice role and function in hands of parliament: expert – Michael West

The High Court will be put in no doubt that parliament retains its supremacy if the Indigenous voice referendum is carried, a key figure in its design says.

Source: Voice role and function in hands of parliament: expert – Michael West

Old Dog Thought- If our ties to British reality of their and our Inglorious Past were taught in our schools The Voice would be a logical necessity and our National shame the direction pointer to a better future.

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Constitutional expert says voice wording clears issues – Michael West

Legal experts aren’t political experts according to the LNP who won’t be swayed.

A leading expert says the proposed wording of the constitutional change for an Indigenous voice will ensure parliament decides the legal effects of its representation.

Source: Constitutional expert says voice wording clears issues – Michael West

Denying First Nations people a voice will achieve nothing – » The Australian Independent Media Network

For some reason, I find myself yet again writing about this referendum. Why can’t people comprehend the simplicity of it? Is it because Aboriginal people solely occupied Australia before white people came along? “They didn’t own the land: The land owned them” (as our editor would say).

Source: Denying First Nations people a voice will achieve nothing – » The Australian Independent Media Network

First Among Equals: The Voice – » The Australian Independent Media Network

THERE’S NO US WITHOUT THEM

THE VOICE in NINE POINTS and a PREAMBLE By Paul Smith PREAMBLE – Addressed to serving military personnel and veterans Reconciliation with former enemies ought to be prominent in the ethos of the Australian military – serving personnel and veterans alike. What greater example is there of such mutual generosity than the existence of Turkish…

Source: First Among Equals: The Voice – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Ex-Nationals MP calls on voice ‘sceptics’ to open minds – Michael West

A former Nationals MP who quit the party because of its opposition to an Indigenous voice to parliament says sceptics will be proven wrong about the proposal.

Source: Ex-Nationals MP calls on voice ‘sceptics’ to open minds – Michael West

The distortions of Voice are a heartless response to a call for reconciliation | Australian Human Rights Institute

The distortions of Voice are a heartless response to a call for reconciliation

So Canada, NZ, and South Africa are all Apartheid Nations according to Australians who refuse Indigenous recognition. Indigenous  Australians were the first people here and were simply overrun, killed, enslaved, and regarded as worthless fauna. They weren’t Invaders, settlers, or colonisers. They weren’t immigrants. They were the people of this land. Recognition of that fact is a common element of all other Colonized nations on the planet except in Australia. Just as recognition of Climate change is common to most of the world’s nations except for Australia. Why is that?

What these exceptions have in common and the rest of the world doesn’t is the LNP is the antithesis to what the general population of Australia thinks. They alone are the cause of division in our Democracy, not multicultural diversity along with an economic class divide.. It is the LNP which prefers to divide rather than unite us as it serves them and the minority they represent well politically. Their ideal is of course cultural assimilation which they readily define by pointing out the differences between them and us. Culture, Color, and Religion are basic triggers of hate and Peter Dutton has never been shy to point out those that don’t belong.

The fatuous attempts to depict a simple, straightforward Voice to Parliament as analogous to apartheid is divisive scaremongering at best, or a clear rejection – yet again – of the presence and participation of First Nations Peoples in our society, at worst. And a rejection of recognition of the original inhabitants of this land from its primary founding document, is a vote for their continued exclusion based on race. And that, Senator Hanson, is apartheid.

Source: The distortions of Voice are a heartless response to a call for reconciliation | Australian Human Rights Institute

Pipe down on The Voice, your White privilege is showing

Referendum- Does the Constitution need to be changed? Or remain racial?

Peter Dutton and his media cabal notwithstanding, The Voice is a well-considered and “detailed” proposition put forward by Indigenous Australians — just respect it. Managing editor Michelle Pini provides the “detail”.

Source: Pipe down on The Voice, your White privilege is showing

Old Dog Thought- Abbott’s a declared Catholic so it’s “Group Think Nonsense” Bolt’s a declared agnostic so it’s a “Religion”, Murdoch’s are paid influencers so the case is “Uncertain”. Nevertheless they are all passing the plate to be paid to the same people

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Barnaby Joyce says Labor hasn’t released the wording to enshrine the Voice to Parliament in the constitution. Is that correct? – ABC News

Barnaby Joyce, wearing a blue suit, with a picture frame saying "ill-informed"

The verdict Mr Joyce is ill-informed.

Source: Barnaby Joyce says Labor hasn’t released the wording to enshrine the Voice to Parliament in the constitution. Is that correct? – ABC News

Indigenous voice supporters target Liberal support

Democracy in Action or wedging Dutton? ” Speak Up Peter” When Indigenous Australians ask Dutton for support they don’t and wont get it. As what they ask for isn’t Conservative policy,

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has also extended an olive branch to the Liberal leader, offering to come up with a constructive deal for constitutional reform in a private letter.

The letter, details of which were published in Nine newspapers, asked Mr Dutton for any “practical suggestions” he wished to contribute to the voice proposal.

Source: Indigenous voice supporters target Liberal support

Voice to Parliament: ‘Yes’ vote has many enemies

Does the Constitution need changing is The referendum

What comes after Parliament determines and is elected. Is “a Voice TO not IN parliament a reasonable request?

Their demand for information on “what the Voice will be” is not entirely a red herring. The Labor Government’s statement that it’ll be decided by Parliament after the referendum succeeds, is not satisfying what a large number of people think they should know, before voting “Yes”. It is an added risk, that as soon as you give some plan, oppositionists will start debating the plan — attacking the main idea by attacking the example. But that might have to be the cost of shutting them up about providing “details”.

Source: Voice to Parliament: ‘Yes’ vote has many enemies

Voice vote may demand blood in the water – Pearls and Irritations

Uluru Statement from the Heart

Andrew Bolt clings to the IPA like a leech for their intellectual narratives

For the IPA, the history of settlement and dispossession, however lamentable, forms no part of the referendum proposition on the table. For them, the present disadvantage of Indigenous Australians, again however lamentable, owes more to the way that Indigenous Australians have allowed themselves to become pauperised and impoverished by welfare systems, and encouraged to think of themselves as helpless victims rather than actors in their own personal advancement. They want to persuade people that rights and assistance should be stripped away, arguing, that “woke” policies and government interventions, however well intentioned, have not improved their situation and generally have made it worse. For them, only policies based on personal responsibility, providing individual rather than collective rights and rewards for work, will create the wealth, human, social and economic capital, and incentives to lift people from their misery. The inequality, and material and spiritual poverty of the US is a testament to the truth of their gospel. Depriving the IPA and their sponsors of their special privileges and advantages, and their access to the power they enjoy should be one of the more com

Source: Voice vote may demand blood in the water – Pearls and Irritations

Peter Dutton’s approach to referendum on Indigenous voice straight from John Howard’s playbook | Paul Karp | The Guardian

Opposition leader, Peter Dutton (right), with former prime minister John Howard.

When Politics gets in the way of what’s right for the sake of maintaining what’s always been wrong since Invasion Day

Conservatives say the Indigenous voice to parliament could divide Australians – but they’ve found some clever ways of doing that themselves

Source: Peter Dutton’s approach to referendum on Indigenous voice straight from John Howard’s playbook | Paul Karp | The Guardian

Australians will miss a once in a century opportunity if we shirk a referendum on an Indigenous Voice – » The Australian Independent Media Network

It is possible. So this is not just the “time to listen to the Voice and act”. It is the time to tell the powers-that-be what sort of Australia we want. We all have a lot to lose if we shirk this referendum and politicians and dissenters should be held to account if they intercede to prevent the emergence of a constitutionally enshrined Voice.

Australians will miss a once in a century opportunity if we shirk a referendum on an Indigenous Voice – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Kevin Rudd says Tony Abbott is wrong on the Voice to parliament

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has launched a scathing rebuke of the emerging conservative campaign against a referendum on an Indigenous Voice to parliament, attacking his longtime rival Tony Abbott for suggesting the body would change Australia’s system of government.

Kevin Rudd says Tony Abbott is wrong on the Voice to parliament