Rt. Rev. Anthony Albanese will solemnly kindle a Voice gaslight today at a Chifley Institute service.
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I say give him a bigger microphone. He’s single handedly dooming the absurdity.
The voice won’t do anything, but it has to be in the constitution, he really is the dumbest pm we have ever had.
Albanese : and aspects of the Voice are like the Department of Defence and need to be kept secret.
And here I thought woke culture has been shoved down our throats for decades. Certainly looks like a culture war to me and it’s entirely caused by one side. The mystery is that there’s a lot less outrage than you could normally expect. I think that’s because fed-up normal people just want to be left alone. Unfortunately the lefty activists won’t do that, so there just might be a bit of blowback come the referendum.
Luckily for Albo, sTan Grant is happy to help over at the ABC. His complaint is that no one uses the word ‘compassion’ when discussing the ‘Voice’. In other words, you are mean if you don’t vote yes. Well, if that’s where the debate is at, I’d say the No case is winning bigly.
The department of defence is run so well. I have some French subs to sell him, I’ll take the payout up front for when the voice decides they don’t meet some inane woke criteria.
Just get Jacinta Price to bell the cat in time for the evening news.
More whining from the Prime Minister.
He has a nerve mentioning a culture war, in light of what’s being inflicted on us, relentlessly, by The Wokes.
Will he say why the Many Voices have failed
sTan, we’re already drowning in compassion
He’s desperate to call opponents ‘racists’. It really irks him that he can’t.
I bet he will get around to it.
When otherwise all is lost.
Why doesn’t he give these headland Voice speeches in a red dirt Aboriginal township, by the way? He doesn’t seem comfortable with blacks.
The very idea of arguing for a new house in parliament when in a remote community so much further down the hierarchy of needs is ludicrous
Typical leftist passive aggression. “Stop disagreeing with me.”
C.L., I accept that you might judge this comment to be too long. W.D.
Aboriginal people who made names for themselves in our passing Anglo-Celtic culture, without governments or a Voice to Parliament telling us what to do, include David Unaipon, Neville Bonner, pastor Doug Nicholls (later, Governor of South Australia), Robert Tudawali and Ngarla Kunoth (of Jedda fame), David Kantilla and numerous other fleet-footed Australian Rules footballers, Yvonne Goolagong-Cawley, Cathy Freeman, and more recently Anthony Dillon, Bess and Jacinta Price. Doubtless, I have omitted names that occur to other readers.
King George III’s Instructions to Governor Arthur Phillip composed by Lord Sydney in 1787 include those that “The Aborigines’ lives and livelihoods were to be protected and friendly relations with them encouraged…” Instructions
The original document remains unfound. The one we read today may have activist embellishments.
In the years and decades following settlement in 1788 there were at least Colonial and later State Protectors of Aborigines. Church missionaries devoted part of their lives ministering to Aboriginals in attempts to improve their welfare, and to educate, feed and clothe their children. Today, we hear little or nothing of this altruism.
Australian governments collectively have spent vast sums of taxpayers’ money trying to improve the lot of Aborigines, some of whom, regrettably, still live in squalor in outback camps. It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the dead hand of bureaucracy is partly to blame.
The accomplishments of people I name above and others like them can be used to spur able-bodied Aborigines of today to improve their lives. None of them is denied education available to other Australians and the fruits that flow from it.
The absence of a Voice to Parliament did not prevent those I name from achieving success in a relatively technologically advanced culture. Nor will it prevent others of their kind doing so. It is almost inconceivable that, given a choice, full-blood or part-Aboriginals would prefer the erstwhile nomadic life to physical comforts, variety and quality of food, health benefits, and opportunities contemporary Australia has to offer.
A Voice beyond that of a disproportionate ten or so elected people of Aboriginal descent already in Federal Parliament risks adding a gaggle of pontificators unaccountable to ordinary Australians and, more significantly, another remote bureaucracy to soak up significant sums of money better spent on grassroots improvement.
Solve the problem of educating young Aboriginals and the rest will follow in time. But first we must repair the female-male imbalance in teachers in State education systems. By definition, women will never instill the virtues of manhood in boys.
When handing an open cheque to a minority to allow them to control the majority, perhaps drawing attention to any possible disjunction in those communities is not the best tactic? Anyway, we all know that none of those people will get within a bulls roar of any actual power, it will be the fellow traveller elites who all live quite comfortably in urban areas who will be ordained.
Any time, WD.
That is the best commentary I’ve read on this subject for weeks.
Thank you.
Taking up the subject of missionaries, I’ve been thinking lately that the absence of people capable of connecting with genuine Aborigines on a non-materialistic, otherworldly frequency is the foremost reason for headway never being made with them in the post-Whitlam era.
Nihilists like Albanese cannot connect with these people; nor, for that matter, can those on the right who argue it’s all about education and jobs. The old missionaries united utility with existential profundity – the latter too little enculturated to Aboriginal idiosyncracies, granted – but they were far better at ‘improving’ and raising up Aborigines than leftist whites.
A Godless state is never going to ‘solve’ this problem. Nor, contra the “noble savage” brigade, will it be solved unless Aborigines themselves admit that aspects of their ‘traditional culture’ cannot – and should not – be conserved.
Aborigines have been r-selected for 100 Generations if we assume occupation for 3,000 years [2,000 Generations if you believe the 60,000 year figure.]
So, those save for the future, spend hours studying a book Genes that White People have in abundance, they’re totally missing in Aborigines.
So, the answer always is:
Plan to cater to Aborigines strengths rather than force them to be White People.
I can only surmise that The Voice is to be enacted so that all the recidivist rappers don’t bring down the image of the inner city overeducated ideologues
Everyone has the same abilities. Everyone has the choice to become piss-wrecks, or, to become the best that their family and community needs them to be. Education and jobs are bridging, but they don’t mean jack if you believe your only utility in life is to get off your face.
Excellent summary, Wyndham.
In a Canberra Officeworks last year the assistant, sorry, Team Member, asked if I wished to donate to their fundraiser to combat illiteracy in Aboriginal children.
I suspected she was a Uni student working part time.
I said that spending on Aboriginal education was running at something like $90,000 a year per child in remote areas; that if she had access to the same resources she could be doing a Doctorate at Yale or Oxford with a living allowance; and that Aboriginal education was a real problem but lack of finance was not an issue.
She was politely astonished – studying in Canberra she probably had never heard anyone raise such a viewpoint.
Begs the question; where is most of the money going?
The money goes on two things, Lee: bureaucracy, and failed ‘progressive’ educational policies from the 1970s. See Noel Pearson’s very apt remarks a couple of weeks ago on the need to return to direct instruction and phonics.