When you want to find a certain store, or good coffee in your area, you google it, right?
The Voice is not a complex issue. Whether you vote yes or no, as is your right, it should not be because you don’t understand it. So, if you haven’t google it, here’s what it’s all about:
‘The Voice to Parliament seeks to establish an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice within the Australian Constitution. This voice would enable Indigenous communities to have a say in matters that directly affect them, including policies and legislation.’
And if you’re interested, here’s a pretty funny, though poignant, video about The Voice.
Well said Leon. It is simple and straight forward and so sad that there has been so much said that has muddied the waters and put doubt in people’s minds.
The PM and his government is selling a proposition, it has spent $400 million on its unconvincing sales pitch. While I accept your suggestion of ‘Googling it,’ if I went into a local car shrowroom about a highly promoted product and they put a proposition to me and my questions were answered by ‘Google it mate’ I would almost certainly walk out. Unfortunately the PM by his refusal to answer so many questions has given the impression that he is hiding something.
Unfortunately, for most Australians the idea that setting up another committee will make a difference to anyone’s life is a hard argument to accept.
If after nearly 250 years of living in the same country and over 120 years of federal government it doesn’t know already what needs fixing in Aboriginal communities and implemented those fixes, then irrespective of another committee, nothing is likely to change.
MS Burney has already said she has priorities to put to the Voice committee. Isn’t this just another example of, if the government already knows of specific needs why instead of waiting for the committee to be set up and creating another bureaucratic vortex, the Minister isn’t getting out of her designer attire, putting on some appropriate bush gear and going to talk to the affected people about working to fix the issues.
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