Anthony Albanese has been tearing his hair out because the more extreme activists who relish forcing the voice on Australia can\u2019t stick to his sales pitch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Part of the Prime Minister\u2019s pitch is that the Uluru Statement represents a plea by every indigenous Australian for a voice in Parliament, and it \u201cfits on an A4 page\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The statement is much more than that, and it’s no wonder the \u2018yes\u2019 mob are keen to play this down. It\u2019s 26 pages full of demands for money, racially-exclusive access to Australian land and water, special race-based rights, and self-government \u2013 an independent indigenous nation entirely by Australian taxpayers. It\u2019s recommended reading for anyone concerned about enshrining racial inequality in the Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prominent voice extremist Megan Davis, one of the authors of the Uluru Statement, has since 2017 said repeatedly it\u2019s a lengthy document of \u201c18 to 20 pages\u201d. This week she\u2019s been forced to write a newspaper column pretending she never said anything of the kind, but it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This issue has been a trainwreck for the \u2018yes\u2019 mob this week. Labour and the \u2018yes\u2019 extremists spent years talking to sympathetic audiences in the voice bubble. They allowed this sympathy to convince themselves the voice would sail through a referendum with solid support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now they\u2019re beginning to realise that the Australian people at large \u2013 to whom the pitch must be made because changing the Constitution is our prerogative \u2013 are not so gullible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the Prime Minister finally musters the courage to set a date for the racist referendum, I suspect that\u2019s when you\u2019ll see the big money behind the \u2018yes\u2019 mob flow into a blitzing campaign about \u2018listening\u2019 and \u2018better outcomes\u2019 with no mention of what the voice really is: a vehicle for a treaty and special rights that will make non-indigenous Australians second-class citizens in their own country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Anthony Albanese has been tearing his hair out because the more extreme activists who relish forcing the voice on Australia can\u2019t stick to his sales pitch. Part of the Prime Minister\u2019s pitch is that the Uluru Statement represents a plea by every indigenous Australian for a voice in Parliament, and it \u201cfits on an A4 … Continue reading “\u201cLengthy\u201d Uluru statement still worth a read”<\/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-22247","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\/22247","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=22247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22248,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22247\/revisions\/22248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}