YOU SAID IT

It is a fundamentally racist idea to suggest that people, based on their race, will have necessarily similar interests.

Voice advocates quite startlingly believe that whoever makes up the members of the Voice body – and we have no idea how the selection process will work, the length of their terms, how they can be removed – will know what a very diverse group of people, under the loose banner of ‘Indigenous’, will want or need.

Yet, this assumption is disproved by the opposition to the Voice expressed by MP Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, and Indigenous leader Warren Mundine.

If members of Parliament and private citizens, who also happen to be Indigenous, cannot agree on Indigenous interests, then how will this body?

It will create another layer of bureaucracy and use up precious resources which are better focused directly on Indigenous communities in need.

3.Indigenous Australians Already Have a ‘Voice’ There are 11 Indigenous Australians in the lower house, that’s almost 5% of its members, and eight in the senate, that’s more than 10% of its members.

In addition, the Australian taxpayer spends $4.2 billion annually on specifically allocated Indigenous related matters, and the total Commonwealth, state and territory government per capita expenditure on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is approximately double the per capita expenditure on non-Indigenous Australians.

Don’t make voice political

I sat at the edge of a Bora Ring watching an aboriginal young man vent his fury.

It wasn’t easy to watch - most of my colleagues at this aboriginal camp left, but I made myself sit there and witness the torment, which was the result of the QLD Government extinguishing native title to build the Adani mine. That was in 2019. In 1992, I sat at the foot of an Aboriginal woman as she told of being chained by her neck to a wharf at age 8 and afterwards being used as a sex slave by a wealthy white land owner. I have read about an aboriginal man in Victoria being gutted - his intestines nailed to a tree and be made to run around that tree until his inevitable death.

The Voice is not about ideology, politics or Albanese. Please, please don’t make this political. It’s about giving a voice to a dispossessed people. Australian Aboriginals are the oldest continuous culture on earth. Their culture was sophisticated, nurturing and mature. It’s easy to build a town, but not easy to build community.

This is what they achieved. They would never have treated people like we do. Every person was housed, gainfully employed and every person mattered.

The gorilla in the room

In 1988 the “Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change” (IPCC) was formed by the United Nations organisation to “advance scientific knowledge about climate change caused by human activities”. Its climate scientists initially could find no proof that humans were causing the slight global warming that was evident after 1976.

Undeterred, its political scientists came up with the hypothesis that because the earth’s climate system should be in a balanced state, human emissions of CO² gas into the atmosphere from fossil fuels and industrial processes must be causing the warming. Western government scientific organisations then adopted this consensus CO² warming belief without questioning it.

1. It is Incompatible

with Our System of Government and Opposes Equality Before the Law

The ‘Voice’ body would be a taxpayerfunded, permanent lobby group which would explicitly push the interests of a racial minority.

This concept undermines centuries of English and Australian legal tradition, including equality before the law and equal representation in the Parliament. Establishing a permanent lobby group to represent 3.2% of the population’s interests is unfair to the rest of the electorate, and antidemocratic.

Those same people who (allegedly) benefit from that representation will then also get a vote in elections.

Interpretation of the scope and meaning of the proposed wording in the Constitution would be the task of unelected High Court judges.

Once an interpretation is made, no matter how much the Parliament or public disagree, it stands.

Voice advocates disingenuously argue the change would be “no big deal”. This is false.

On reading of the proposed text, it states that the Voice would be able to ‘make representations to the Parliament and Executive government’ about ‘matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’. And, because this is embedded in the Constitution, it would be extremely difficult to change once established.

What does this mean? A permanent lobby group that has the power to make representations to all levels of Executive Government and the Australian Parliament, so long as it relates to Indigenous people. This could be virtually anything.

CONDITIONS

These stats, along with the existing allocation of funds, clearly show that Indigenous Australians are already well represented and why it is unnecessary to embark on such a significant legal experiment.

Conclusion

That’s all I have space for.

My final comment is it’s okay to vote no; it’s okay to make up your own mind on this important issue.

I’m against the proposal for the reasons above and many others. For those who want to learn more, the Spectator Australia has published some good articles on the subject.

Jacob Pruden

Jacob is a Glass House Mountains local and practises law on the Sunshine Coast.

Our whole system is based on a certain amount of unemployment. Disadvantage is hard baked into our society - likewise exploitation of people, planet and animals. Not so with First Nations. They built a rich, sustainable and fair society that lasted thousands of years. Our’s is collapsing in a lifetime (boomers continually tell me how life was better back then). Want a society with less crime? Listen to First Nations. Want a society that is about reciprocation and not consumption? Listen to First Nations. Want a society that is respectful to elders, youth, the weak and the marginal? Listen to First Nations!

Want to know how to look after country? You know what to do. This is all the voice is. Aboriginal people have been run over by colonisation. They have seen their way of life replaced by a people who are rich but unhappy, disconnected and sick. Listen to them. If not for them, for yourselves!

Andrew McLean, Maleny

Unfortunately for consensus science, independent scientists did not believe this hypothesis, which is still unproven, and continued looking for the real cause of the warming. When they drew a graph of sea surface temperatures against atmospheric CO² on the same timeline they found that the rise in CO² lagged behind temperature rise by 11 to 12 months. If temperatures increased well before CO², then CO² could not be causing the warming. The slow warming of our oceans and the upwelling and degassing of CO² from them is probably the main cause of rising atmospheric CO², and more scientific research is required, but it won’t come from the IPCC which is only interested in the effect of “human activities”.

The USA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) itself gave a very good description of our main climate driver. They wrote; “The El Niño/La Niña climate pattern that alternately warms and cools the eastern tropical Pacific is the 800-pound gorilla of Earth’s climate system. On a global scale, no other single phenomenon has a greater influence on whether a year will be warmer, cooler, wetter or drier than average”.

Sel Hopley Maleny

Stick to the facts

In reading Shane Daly’s opinion piece in “You Said It” in GC&M News (May 23), I can’t believe someone can be so ill informed and so misguided. His extraordinary and ludicrous statements need to be shown up for what they are: the bleatings of an angry person.

After 9 years and 3 Coalition Prime Ministers, the Australian electorate finally had enough. Enough of the incredibly poor performance in all areas of government policy. A simple look at the emergence and success of the Teals tells you something was very wrong with the government at the time. Independent Teals defeating Liberals in supposedly safe conservative seats. This has never happened before. Comparing Anthony Albanese and the ALP to Stalinist Russia is complete garbage and utter tripe. Seriously Shane Daly, please

Cost of living shows up in strange places

IS IT just me or is crime really in fashion at the moment.

First I read about someone driving, not off the tee down the first, but into the actual pro shop at the Beerwah Golf Club last week. What a senseless act for a few hundred.

Then there’s The Local being targeted over the weekend.

Or is it just because people can post crimes in real time on socials?

Either way it’s miserable stuff.

The filthy crims get away with a few hundred dollars or a grand to blow on whatever, but the business is left dealing with the time and effort of the clean-up, lost business, insurance headaches, and the trauma of being robbed.

Power struggles

While all the focus is on governments helping households cope with price hikes - such as the 25 per cent increase in power prices from July - maybe someone should think about the impact on small businesses.

I was talking with a cafe owner the other day who told me their power bill was $500 a week.

Very few cafe owners I know are driving Bentleys and a 25 per cent increase, on top of drown, but I’m going to say the government’s $150 swimming vouchers - totalling $4.8mare a complete waste of taxpayer money.

The government might argue I’m advocating more deaths. Well, no. Rather, kids under four would benefit more from splashing around six lessons.

The school swimming curriculum was reduced to weekly lifesaving lessons years ago.

This is yet another ‘cost-of-living’ exercise in vote-winning inanity.

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