Tag: Vote Yes

Australia

Heart To Heart – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Final thoughts 

As was explained to me by a voter that changed their mind about voting, No: “Who am I to stand in the way of a chance for Aboriginals to make their lives better?”

Indeed, how can we deny an opportunity that does not affect the vast majority of our lives in the slightest? Voting No will ensure more of the same, which clearly has not worked. Voting Yes will finally allow Indigenous Australians some control over their destinies.

Source: Heart To Heart – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australia

Why I am voting ‘Yes’ – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The federal legislative and administrative history regarding the treatment of First Nations in Australia has still been unsatisfactory since 1967. That is why we have an average life expectancy for non-First Nations exceeding the life expectancy of First Nations in the case of males by 8.6 years and females by 7.8 years. #TheVoice is a positive step forward to cure the CC and socioeconomic disadvantages First Nations face. A legislative voice alone can be easily torn down by the vicissitudes of either opportunistic or knee jerk politics. The former Howard Government Indigenous Affairs Minister Amanda Vanstone has admitted it was a mistake to have abolished the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (‘ATSIC’) in its entirety (source The Australian). Notwithstanding any internal administrative problems with ATSIC, it was delivering regional solutions for First Nations disadvantage. The tearing down of ATSIC sufficiently illustrates the inadequacy of there being only a legislative voice.

When I read the data about life expectancy alone, I know there is a federal legislative and administrative problem

#TheVoice is a positive step forward for Australia, and #TheVoice unifies us a nation. #TheVoice is a small step for non-First Nations Australians, but it is a major step for the hearts of First Nations.

8.6. That is why I am voting #Yes.

 

Source: Why I am voting ‘Yes’ – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Indigenous Australia

Yes to Listening – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook

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Australia isn’t British. It’s a 240-year-old nation built on other people’s land. For clarity alone in 2023, what should be recognized in our Constitution and founding statement is who we are. If we respect those First Peoples, on whose land we sit let’s acknowledge that. 90 % of Australians agreed in 1967 and do today. Those who say No accept “might is right” rather than any belief in “Universal Human Rights” for which WW2 was fought. These same No-Sayers accept that Australia has currently No Bill of Human Rights, the very concept our Diggers really fought and died for. King and country make us look very misguided today when even King Charles is happy to see us become a Republic.

The nations we currently stand shoulder-to-shoulder with are Russia, China, and Nth Korea, and peculiarly the UK who are supporting Ukranian rights against the Russian invasion. To the rest of the world, we are seen as simply dominated by a minority of backward racists

“Put simply, the Constitution is the rule book of the nation. It is the highest of written laws that determine how all other laws are made, and by whom – the state or federal parliaments. As the foundational document for the Australian Federation or, as some describe it, the birth certificate of our modern nation, above all other laws and decrees, the Constitution defines our modern nation. Yet it does not recognise Indigenous people. Who would say that First Nations people – a people and a culture that has lived and flourished on and with this country for tens of thousands of years – should not be included in Australia’s Constitution? Australia’s forefathers may have denied this, and did so violently. But today, Australia can be different. For our ‘young’ nation to mature, constitutional recognition is vital. It is a matter for all of us – a chance to redefine our Australian identity and to right a wrong from the past. When Australia embraces the longest continuing culture on the planet as what constitutes us – the building blocks of our national DNA – we will share a unique identity in the world – an identity we can all be proud of.

Source: “Put… – The Fiberal Party of Australia – Lies & Misdemeanours | Facebook

Australia's Shame

Yes, of course we need a Human Rights Act! – Pearls and Irritations

Human Rights Act and gavel on a table. concept

 

Australia is the only democratic country in the world without a charter of human rights in either legislation or the Constitution.

Source: Yes, of course we need a Human Rights Act! – Pearls and Irritations