Hey Albo, who do you reckon qualifies as an Aborigine? Before I vote in your referendum on an indigenous Voice not only to parliament but to government and all its agencies, like all Australians, I’m entitled to know just to whom I’m supposed to be giving this Voice.

An alliance of elites is urging the Yes campaign for an Indigenous voice to parliament upon a wary and suspicious Australian public. Reconciliation cannot be achieved by division. This is the best encapsulation of this debate that I have read. Paul Kelly nails it. In post-war Australia there has rarely, if ever, been a political … Continue reading There has never been a political alignment like this →

Great opinion piece from Janet Albrechtsen in The Australian last week on The Voice. What is it about the voice debate, and indeed much of the debate about Indigenous affairs generally, that causes apparently rational people to lose all objectivity, wallow in sentimentality and engage in irrational overreach? In my lifetime I have not seen … Continue reading Indigenous voice to parliament: How voice of reason has been lost to emotional abuse →