Penny Wong’s Revelation and Labor’s Deception: The Return of “The Voice” by Legislation, Truth-Telling, Treaty, and Reparations! By James Reed
Penny Wong's slip on the Betoota Talks podcast has let the cat out of the bag: despite Anthony Albanese's denials, Labor is quietly planning a Voice 2.0, biding its time until Australia's White population dips below 50% due to runaway mass immigration. From a Christian conservative nationalist perspective, this revelation, coupled with the 2025 election's culture war over Welcome to Country ceremonies, exposes Labor's strategy to exploit demographic shifts and erode Australia's Christian identity. The Liberal Party's collapse and the fragmentation of conservative voters, as seen in the 5–6% swing to minor parties like One Nation, demand a unified minor party alliance to force minority Labor governments and block this agenda. Only by rallying the faithful and leveraging the backlash to events like Anzac Day disruptions can conservatives preserve Australia's soul before a black swan crisis forces a reckoning.
On the Betoota Talks podcast, Foreign Minister Penny Wong suggested an Indigenous Voice to Parliament is "inevitable," comparing it to marriage equality, which she claimed became a non-issue post-legalisation. Her comments, reported by The Australian, imply Labor sees the Voice's 2023 referendum defeat (60.1% "No") as a temporary setback. Wong's framing—that future generations will view opposition as quaint—suggests a long-term plan to reintroduce the Voice, likely as legislation rather than a constitutional amendment, once demographic and political conditions shift.
Albanese, when pressed during the leaders' debate, insisted the Voice is "gone" and emphasised "different paths to reconciliation." Treasurer Jim Chalmers echoed this, claiming Labor is "looking forwards, not backwards." Yet Wong's unguarded remarks, combined with posts on X from figures like Pauline Hanson and Jacinta Price warning of Labor's "secret plan" to revive the Voice, fuel suspicions of deception. Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy's alleged statement, cited on X, that Labor would legislate the Uluru Statement's full demands—including truth-telling, treaty, and reparations—adds weight to these fears, though unconfirmed by official sources.
From our perspective, this duplicity reflects Labor's secular, globalist agenda, which prioritises progressive ideals and CCP-friendly diplomacy over Australia's Christian heritage. The Voice 2.0 threat, tied to demographic engineering via mass immigration, aims to dilute the conservative voting base, as non-white populations—projected to surpass 50% by the early 2030s per ABS migration trends—lean toward Labor (e.g., 65–70% Chinese-Australian vote in 2025).
The 2025 election campaign saw Welcome to Country ceremonies become a cultural lightning rod, exposing tensions over Indigenous issues post-Voice. Peter Dutton's claim that the ceremonies are "overdone" and unwanted by veterans at Anzac Day services, backed by Tony Abbott's "virtue-signalling" critique, ignited debate. Disruptions at Anzac Day events in Perth and Melbourne, including neo-Nazi heckling of Indigenous veteran Di Ryder and elder Mark Brown, amplified the controversy.
The WA RSL, led by Duncan Anderson, defended apolitical acknowledgments, as performed by Ryder in Perth, but agreed with Ben Wyatt that some ceremonies veer into "political diatribe." Indigenous leader Marcia Langton clarified that Welcome to Country honours specific ancestral lands, not the nation, countering critics' misconceptions. Yet Dutton's stance, condemned by Malcolm Turnbull as "pure culture war stuff," alienated urban moderates while resonating with conservative voters, as seen in One Nation's 6.2% vote (up 1.3%).
This clash reflects a broader pushback against Indigenous symbolism since the Voice's defeat, which 60% of voters—especially in regional seats like Maranoa (80% "No")—rejected as divisive. Labor's silence, with Albanese avoiding direct defense of the ceremonies, suggests electoral caution, as Professor Rodney Smith noted: discussing Indigenous issues is "electorally foolish" post-referendum.
Immigration and Demographic Strategy
Concerns about the White population dropping below 50% ties directly to Labor's immigration policies. ABS data projects non-European migrants, particularly from Asia and the Middle East, will drive Australia's population to 30 million by 2035, with white Australians (of European descent) falling to 45–48% by 2032–2035 due to high intake (400,000 net migrants in 2024) and lower birth rates (1.6 per woman). Labor's WeChat campaigns, securing 65–70% of Chinese-Australian votes in seats like Bennelong, show how immigration bolsters their base.
This demographic shift could enable Voice 2.0 by creating a voter bloc less resistant to progressive Indigenous policies. ANU's 2024–2025 voter attitude study found declining support for government-led Indigenous gap-closing (down 15%), but migrant communities, especially recent arrivals, often align with Labor's social justice framing. Labor's reconciliation focus—jobs, housing, and education—avoids constitutional debates but keeps the door open for legislative Voice-like mechanisms, as Wong's comments hint.
The Liberals' 2025 disaster—29% primary vote, down 3.9%, with Dutton losing Dickson—stems from their Teal-chasing moderation and internal sabotage, as Christensen warned. Their flirtation with One Nation preferences, criticised by strategists as alienating urban voters, failed to stem the 5–6% swing to minor parties like One Nation (6.2%) and Trumpet of Patriots (2%). This fragmentation, evident in seats like Flynn (12% One Nation) and Cowper (tight independent race), underscores the need for a cooperative minor party alliance, as previously discussed.
From our Christian conservative nationalist lens, the Liberals' failure to defend traditional values—opposing Voice 2.0, rejecting woke symbolism, and prioritising sovereignty—has left conservatives politically homeless. Minor parties, with their 10–12% national vote, are the last bastion. A "Menzies Pact" uniting One Nation, Australian Christians, and others on faith, family, and security could push their vote to 15–20% by 2028, winning 5–10 House seats and forcing hung parliaments.
Churches, with 5 million members, must mobilise against Voice 2.0 and Labor's agenda, as seen in the 2017 plebiscite's 38% "No" vote. Christensen's 50,000-subscriber platform and 2022 Church and State Summit can rally congregations to register 500,000 voters and back minor party candidates defending Biblical principles (Psalm 33:12). A black swan event—like a PLA fuel blockade, Pine Gap attack, or Carrington-level EMP—could amplify this, exposing Labor's CCP ties and grid vulnerabilities (80% of substations EMP-unprotected).Computer model estimates a 12–18% chance of such a crisis by 2030, shifting 20–25% of Labor's vote to conservatives.
Wong's Voice 2.0 hint, enabled by mass immigration's demographic shift, reveals Labor's plan to erode Australia's Christian identity. The Welcome to Country furore, mishandled by the Liberals, fuels cultural division, while their electoral collapse demands a minor party alliance. Churches must lead, uniting One Nation and others to force minority Labor governments, stalling Voice 2.0 until a crisis awakens the nation. Australia's soul is at stake—conservatives must act before it's too late.
"Foreign Minister Penny Wong has suggested an Indigenous voice is inevitable and Australians will one day be incredulous there was ever an argument about it.
In an episode of the Betoota Talks podcast released on Monday, Senator Wong said Anthony Albanese went ahead with the voice referendum in 2023 because "he is not a pull-the-pin kind of guy", he thought it was the right thing to do and "a lot of First Nations leaders wanted the opportunity".
"I think we'll look back on it in 10 years' time and it'll be a bit like marriage equality," she said. "I always used to say, marriage equality, which took us such a bloody fight to get that done, and I thought, all this fuss. It'll become something, it'll be like, people go 'did we even have an argument about that?'
"Like, kids today, or even adults today, barely kind of clock that it used to be an issue. Remember how big an issue that was in the culture wars? Blimey, just endless."
On October 14, 2023, 60.1 per cent of Australians voted no to an Indigenous advisory body enshrined in the Constitution.
When Mr Albanese was questioned about the voice in the leaders debate, he repeated his long-stated position that he respects the outcome. Asked if he still believed in it, Mr Albanese replied: "It is gone."Liberal family is '
Asked again for his personal view on the voice, he said: "We need to find different paths to affect reconciliation."
Jim Chalmers also said Labor will not be reviving the Indigenous voice to parliament in a second term. The Treasurer was asked to rule out the prospect of an Indigenous voice to parliament in Labor's second term.
"I think the Prime Minister has already done that," Dr Chalmers told Channel 9. "You know, we're looking forwards, not backwards. We were disappointed about the outcome back then, but we've been looking forwards and not backwards. And it's not part of our agenda."
It comes as the Returned Servicemen's League in Western Australia said an acknowledgment of country would remain part of the dawn service in Perth – where a racist taunt from the crowd interrupted an Indigenous veteran as she spoke on Friday – so long as it continued to be apolitical and supported by members.
RSL state president Duncan Anderson, a sheep farmer from Donnybrook, south of Perth, agreed with Ben Wyatt, Australia's first Indigenous treasurer, who on Tuesday backed welcome ceremonies but said some went too long and others veered into "political diatribe".
"It's true, some welcome to countries can be a bit political," Mr Anderson said. "We want to avoid that. There is nothing more that we are trying to protect Anzac Day from than politics."
Tony Abbott on Tuesday described welcome to country ceremonies as an "exercise in virtue-signalling" akin to wearing masks during the Covid pandemic.
Referring to acknowledgments of traditional owners and lands that are read aloud to passengers on Qantas flights, he said: "I've found the notion of having country acknowledged when you land in Melbourne or Sydney or Brisbane absolutely grating."
Mr Abbott praised Peter Dutton for saying during the final leaders debate at the weekend that welcomes were overdone.06:12
"Peter Dutton has done us all a favour by acknowledging that these things are overdone, and they certainly can be very out of place at things like Anzac Day ceremonies," Mr Abbott said.
Mr Dutton condemned ugly scenes at Melbourne's dawn service where self-declared neo-Nazi Jacob Hersant was filmed booing and shouting at Uncle Mark Brown while he delivered a welcome to country.
Asked if the welcomes should be part of dawn services, Mr Dutton said he believed the majority of veterans did not support them.
The furore just days before the federal election prompted Indigenous leader Pat Anderson to say Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were again being used as a political football.
Malcolm Turnbull accused Mr Dutton of resorting to culture warfare in the final week of the campaign. "This will work for him in some areas but it is just pure culture war stuff and I think it turns a lot of people off. I think it's a mistake to go down that route," Mr Turnbull told ABC TV.
The Anzac Day disruptions in Perth and Melbourne come after what some Indigenous leaders have described as a pushback on Aboriginal Australians since the defeat of the voice referendum in 2023.
In Perth on Anzac Day, Indigenous veteran Di Ryder delivered an acknowledgment of country rather than a welcome. She was momentarily put off by shouting from the crowd.
Mr Anderson described Ms Ryder's acknowledgment as solemn and appropriate, and said he believed his members were supportive.
An acknowledgment is generally shorter than a welcome and can be performed by any person.
Indigenous leader and researcher Marcia Langton says many critics profoundly misunderstand what a welcome to country is. It is not a welcome to Australia the nation. Professor Langton, who wrote the 2023 book Welcome to Country as a travel guide to Indigenous Australia, says the word "country" is used to describe a particular place, often home.
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