From my understanding, they intend to add what is essentially a new wing of government who are to be able to vote (perhaps even veto?) on "certain issues", ostensibly those that pertain to the aboriginal people and their culture. It is also my understanding that we have no other concrete details about the actual implementation other than the fact that "The Voice" is to be comprised entirely of people with aboriginal and Torres Strait islander heritage. The reason we do not have any other concrete details is because our wonderful government in all their wisdom has yet to pen the actual legislative documents necessary to outline and define the powers that will be given to "The Voice". Indeed, it seems they intend to delay the actual writing until after they've secured their "Yes" vote. They are essentially all but asking for a blank cheque from the bank of executive power here.
So the number of things that could go wrong are innumerable. Western Australia has recently implemented and repealed very similar laws, though they were only state-wide, that essentially made it illegal to dig on your own property (for putting fences in, for example) without express permission from an aboriginal consultant, services that could cost upwards of $350 an hour. At best this is just going to be a nation-wide repeat of this disastrous policy, only we're going to have an impossible fight to win to undo the damage our government will have wrought.
"And unfortunately - I don't want to be personally critical of the electoral Commissioner - but nevertheless, it does seem that this is causing confusion and that's a real problem."
Yeah, they're only trying to destroy the entire country. We can't be criticizing people over such trivial things....
I don’t know anything about the “voice” vote - but I know facebook was trying to manipulate the referendum- so I guess facebook was on the side of evil?
It’s a vote for a third chamber of Parliament to “oversee” most decisions, which only Aboriginal people (they haven’t told us how they will define what percentage Abo you have to be) can vote for…
Think, I dunno, Bolivia, or Paraguay or South Africa…
NZ has a similar thing, but the one proposed here is much, much more powerful…
So yeah, I would say Facebook is on the wrong side of history here…
Interesting anecdote: I was watching a current affairs program recently where a famous woke Australian journalist (Charles Woolley) was visiting remote northwestern Australia, and was out camping with an Indigenous tour guide…
So he asks him about the Voice. The tour guide responds, saying he doesn’t think it will help him, or his people, in any way, and that he just wants to be an Australian, treated the same as anyone else.
Woolley, unsatisfied with this answer, then demands that the Aboriginal man recognize that the importance of the Voice vote is for “white men” like Woolley to be able to alleviate “their historical guilt”, and to “feel that [they] have done the right thing”. Then they get into an argument, and the editor cuts away…
That’s what this is all about. That’s what my own parents believe, too… It’s not about “justice”, it’s about guilt. And once again, just like with Covid, I am aghast…
What will happen if the yes vote is successful. Sucks to see what’s happening in your country
From my understanding, they intend to add what is essentially a new wing of government who are to be able to vote (perhaps even veto?) on "certain issues", ostensibly those that pertain to the aboriginal people and their culture. It is also my understanding that we have no other concrete details about the actual implementation other than the fact that "The Voice" is to be comprised entirely of people with aboriginal and Torres Strait islander heritage. The reason we do not have any other concrete details is because our wonderful government in all their wisdom has yet to pen the actual legislative documents necessary to outline and define the powers that will be given to "The Voice". Indeed, it seems they intend to delay the actual writing until after they've secured their "Yes" vote. They are essentially all but asking for a blank cheque from the bank of executive power here.
So the number of things that could go wrong are innumerable. Western Australia has recently implemented and repealed very similar laws, though they were only state-wide, that essentially made it illegal to dig on your own property (for putting fences in, for example) without express permission from an aboriginal consultant, services that could cost upwards of $350 an hour. At best this is just going to be a nation-wide repeat of this disastrous policy, only we're going to have an impossible fight to win to undo the damage our government will have wrought.
Yeah, they're only trying to destroy the entire country. We can't be criticizing people over such trivial things....
Cunts.
I don’t know anything about the “voice” vote - but I know facebook was trying to manipulate the referendum- so I guess facebook was on the side of evil?
Edit : elon talked about it here:
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1694206451542040939
It’s a vote for a third chamber of Parliament to “oversee” most decisions, which only Aboriginal people (they haven’t told us how they will define what percentage Abo you have to be) can vote for…
Think, I dunno, Bolivia, or Paraguay or South Africa…
NZ has a similar thing, but the one proposed here is much, much more powerful…
So yeah, I would say Facebook is on the wrong side of history here…
Has it ever been any other way?
Interesting anecdote: I was watching a current affairs program recently where a famous woke Australian journalist (Charles Woolley) was visiting remote northwestern Australia, and was out camping with an Indigenous tour guide…
So he asks him about the Voice. The tour guide responds, saying he doesn’t think it will help him, or his people, in any way, and that he just wants to be an Australian, treated the same as anyone else.
Woolley, unsatisfied with this answer, then demands that the Aboriginal man recognize that the importance of the Voice vote is for “white men” like Woolley to be able to alleviate “their historical guilt”, and to “feel that [they] have done the right thing”. Then they get into an argument, and the editor cuts away…
That’s what this is all about. That’s what my own parents believe, too… It’s not about “justice”, it’s about guilt. And once again, just like with Covid, I am aghast…
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