{"id":19930,"date":"2023-01-26T07:10:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T07:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=19930"},"modified":"2023-01-26T07:10:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T07:10:58","slug":"labor-fumbles-on-aboriginal-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/labor-fumbles-on-aboriginal-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Fumbles on Aboriginal Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One thing you can always rely on Labor to do well is muck things up.&nbsp; The federal Labor government has proposed a significant change to our constitution, known as &#8220;the voice&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unfortunately, the only aspects of their plans that have concrete information are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Silence any dissent and refuse funding to opposing voices<\/li><li>Award themselves large amounts of taxpayer money to fund the &#8220;yes&#8221; side under the guise of &#8220;misinformation&#8221; campaigns<\/li><li>.. and if the Prime Minister loses the campaign he plans to legislate for a &#8220;voice to parliament&#8221; regardless of what Australians want<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthony Albanese is on record as saying he hasn\u2019t even sought the legal opinion of government lawyers about the ramifications of the &#8220;voice&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former High Court Judges have stated that a &#8220;voice&#8221; poses a significant risk of being hijacked by those who will tie the federal government up in legal challenges to everything parliament decides without first consulting the proposed third chamber of parliament (&#8220;the voice&#8221;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We cannot rely on Anthony Albanese&#8217;s promise that everything will be okay. Although the radicals have all the money and support from extremist organisations, there is no certainty Labor will win a referendum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is crucial that we take action to stop this proposed change to our constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only way to defeat the &#8220;voice&#8221; is through hard work and effort. Our members, supporters, and volunteers are the very Australians who will stop Labor&#8217;s proposed changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing you can always rely on Labor to do well is muck things up.&nbsp; The federal Labor government has proposed a significant change to our constitution, known as &#8220;the voice&#8221;. Unfortunately, the only aspects of their plans that have concrete information are: Silence any dissent and refuse funding to opposing voices Award themselves large &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/labor-fumbles-on-aboriginal-voice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Labor Fumbles on Aboriginal Voice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19931,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19930\/revisions\/19931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}