So, it begins. With the same fanfare that greeted the same sex marriage business, the Senate has passed the Voice legislation, patting themselves on the back in moral high grounding. And now the brainwashing for the voice will accelerate. I say “brainwashing,” since the actual details of what the Voice will entail have not been released, and that they admit. The Voice is supposed to address every problem that indigenous communities have, as a magic wand; yet the question needs to be asked, why haven’t the policies to do this been done by parliament before this point in time? If it is so good, why wait until now?
No, Senator Cash is on the money here: “The government did not have the answers … It’s risky, it’s unknown, it’s divisive and it’s permanent. If you don’t know how the voice is going to work, my humble opinion is vote No,” Senator Cash said. “We are opening up a legal can of worms. The proposed model as we know it is not just to the parliament but to all areas of executive government. It gives an unlimited scope.”