No means no: one year on from the Voice to Parliament

Flat White IO 14 October 2024 I Spectator Australia

One year ago, Australia told the Canberra Bubble ‘no’.

No, we will not accept racial division.

No, we will not enshrine racial privilege into democracy.

No, we will not further empower a corrupt bureaucracy to abuse tens of billions in public money to enrich activists at the expense of Indigenous communities.

No, we will not permanently segregate Australians into oppressors and victims to be forever exploited by the political class.

No, we do not trust you, Mr Prime Minister.

We said, ‘no’, but Labor took it as a ‘yes’.

As soon as the Australian people were given the opportunity to voice their opinion, they withdrew consent from the racist activist movement draped over this country.

It was the first time Canberra had bothered to ask anyone what they thought about Woke cultural politics and the direction of hard-left Marxist theory. Given the result, it is doubtful they will ask again.

Maybe they got a shock, or were embarrassed, when they discovered that most people disagreed with their righteous (in their own minds, at least) crusade. Instead of feeling virtuous, they learned that the average person was side-eyeing their politics and whispering disapproval behind closed doors.

The Voice to Parliament was about a voice. Not a racial voice, but the voices of all Australians which rang loud and clear across almost every state and territory. Albanese and his Labor Premiers heard this voice and then decided to abuse the political system to ignore it.

So much for a listening tour.

Since October 14, 2023, Labor has used every backdoor and Trojan horse in the stable to deliver on the promises it made to activists.

Secrecy has been their favourite weapon.

Most people have no idea what their Premiers have been doing.

Today, one year on from the referendum, state governments have implemented ‘treaties’ between the people of their states. People who were born in the same towns, raised together in the same schools, who faced the same struggles against nature, and who are now divided only by pieces of their DNA.

Reconciliation?

No one who writes a racial treaty between citizens is remotely interested in reconciling the past.

Victoria, in particular, is implementing a system that would see communities persecuted based upon their race.

In April this year, Premier Jacinta Allan confirmed that the Victorian government was considering agreeing to a list of 10 treaty demands which include excluding Indigenous people from paying land tax and council rates along with providing interest free loans to buy houses and free university education.

Equality?

This is the definition of racial discrimination and it is being done under the banner of treaty.

‘Reconciliation renewables’ and ‘Indigenous energy’?

Former Premier Daniel Andrews started this process before fleeing power. For years the Coalition supported the treaty process in Victoria which includes: a binding treaty, a First Peoples’ Assembly, the Yoorrook Justice Commission to investigate colonisation, a Treaty Authority, the Treaty Negotiation Framework, and a $65 million Self-Determination Fund to pay for negotiations with the government.

In 2022, the Opposition Aboriginal Affairs spokesperson and Nationals Leader Peter Walsh said, ‘Treaty is deeply personal, meaning that the road to achieving treaty will be different things to all people. As treaty negotiations progress, it must be in a way that meets the ideals and expectations of all Aboriginal Victorians and contributes positively to Closing the Gap on a whole range of measures, in addition to those set out in the Agreement between the states and territories.’

After the referendum, Mr Walsh said: ‘We’re very concerned about the secrecy, we’re all about openness and transparency, about all of Victoria being involved in these discussions and that’s not the case.’

While Opposition Leader John Pesutto added, ‘We have had internal discussions and we don’t believe we should proceed with Treaty, until issues around cultural heritage, until issues around the Traditional Owner settlement act are actually resolved. I respect the views of others who think that treaty is the best way to go but I just want to be upfront with the Victorian people that I don’t believe that’s the right way to go.’

This is not conviction politics. It is whichever way the wind is blowing and frankly, it is getting tiring. Either racial division is right or it is wrong. Either treaty is right, or it is wrong.

Australia told both parties that they do not want treaties between citizens, so why is this conversation still happening in the shadows?

This is where we sit one year on from Australia saying ‘no’.

As Marita Punshon wrote back in April:

‘Victoria is the frontier state for Indigenous activism and separatism. It leaves others in its legislative wake. Indigenous activists previously called for inclusivity. Today, they seek exclusivity.’

When Australia said ‘no’, they meant ‘no’.

As far as Albanese’s promise, ‘No one held back, no one left behind…’ The Prime Minister has managed to leave the entire nation behind, with polls showing that almost everyone feels worse off under Labor.

The socialist push has gone so far that soon Australians will no longer be able to publicly criticise Labor and its record.

One year on from the Voice to Parliament, Labor is demanding a censorship bill based – in part – on the rationale that if they had been able to censor the internet a year ago, they would have won the Voice to Parliament.

In other words, Labor has admitted that its only path to victory is one that involves cheating the public out of its voice.

Oh, the irony.

Author: Flat White