Peter Dutton has been making the excellent point that the onus is upon the Albo government to demonstrate how the Voice will actually improve the lives of Indigenous Australians, something that so far has not been done, and probably won’t be, I believe, since the whole thing is one more power grab, and a dangerous one at that. More importantly, since Indigenous Australians are only a small part of this country, the full details of what the Voice will involve are not being disclosed, and we all need to know this to make an intelligent vote at all.
Albo says the role of the Voice will be purely advisory, but one does not need to change the constitution to do that, a simple Act of parliament is enough. So, the whole agenda is full of deception. The race discrimination commissioner, wants the debate to steer clear of the race question, as it may stir up “racism,” but the very Voice issue is grounded in race; a particular race of people will be given special rights that others do not have. Whether that is a good thing or bad thing, people will vote to decide, but it can hardly be reasonably denied that race is the core issue here.