Re: The Voice
It all started eight years ago while the bloody LNP where in power. They did bugger all about it but professed to foster it by putting Ken White as minister for aboriginal affairs with the mandate of sitting on his fat back side and doing nothing about it. Along comes the election and the leader of the ALP declared that if they won that he would settle it once and for all and put it to the people in a referendum. No politics just letting the people of Australia decide if the generous offer by the aboriginal could be settled once and for all. It is the opposition leader Dutton that has turned this into a political bun fight and muddied the waters so to speak with nothing but outright lies and misrepresentation of what is offered. Sure there are aboriginal MPs and different bodies looking after them but controlled by either party policies or in the case of those bodies looking after them making sure that they are underfunded when the need arises and then throwing millions at the south east corner of Australia to keep the radical ones quiet. Just as an example that came up in question time the other day? Seems that aboriginal communities in the remote northern part of Australia have to purchase electricity before they use it. Then have to suffer black outs (no pun intended) for days as they are cut of from the grid. Should we not be proud to have the longest surviving group of people in the world still living amongst us and where here before while we where still thinking of getting a wheel. Also be thankful that they did not decide to colonize the world and we would be asking for a bloody voice in a different language.
That's the way the mop flops.
My thanks to Brian for this site.