Unintended consequences of Aboriginal (Indigenous) definition.
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. Is it to the seriously disadvantaged 155,000 Aboriginal people living in remote communities who really do need a voice in the corridors of power? Or will their voice be submerged under the almost five-times bigger voice of the 660,000 urban Aboriginal people that make up more than 80 per cent of Australia’s 813,000 citizens claiming Aboriginal descent? Most of these have more than a dash of Caucasian (or other non-Aboriginal races) blood along with significantly different needs and agendas from those of tribal Aborigines. Or even worse, will the needy voice of remote Aborigines even get to sing in a choir dominated by the 300,000 capital city-based of mixed-ancestry, many of them political activists, who have access to the norms of a Western lifestyle but, in booming numbers, claim entitlement to the benefits aimed at their genuinely disadvantaged remote (part-) brethren.
Read below for the full article from The Spectator.
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