Post by NFA on Mar 10, 2024 12:36:03 GMT 8
64.7% of South Australians voted ‘NO’ to Labor’s Voice to Parliament last year (the votes stopped being counted at 81.8% completion, so the true number was likely higher), and 60.1% of all Australians rejected the Voice.
The message we sent to Labor could hardly have been louder or clearer: we don’t want a race-based advisory body dictating “solutions” to the problems indigenous Australians face. We want real, practical outcomes, regardless of the ethnicity of those who come up with them.
However, SA Labor is still pushing ahead with a South Australian version of the Voice and will hold elections for the SA Voice on 16 March 2024.
While this version of the Voice is not embedded into the Constitution, only people of indigenous heritage are allowed to become members. Yet, to this day, no one has answered my simple question of how legitimate indigenous status is determined.
This state-based Voice will cost SA taxpayers $1.5 million per year, so one wonders what “solutions” they will come up with that haven’t already been tried, or that couldn’t simply be implemented right now without creating and funding a new bureaucracy. In the private sector, one would simply devise a strategy with concrete outcomes and implement it. Here, there is no plan, just more expensive virtue-signalling from Labor.
What will the SA Voice members do? My guess is that there will be a lot of complaining about colonialism and requests for more government funding of various ineffective programs, but not much else.
If you want to voice your perspective to the state Labor government, sign this petition created by SA Liberal, Ben Hood MLC: dontdividesa.com.au
Australians rejected the identity-politics narrative that the Voice represented at the last referendum, yet SA Labor still seeks to create their own version. They have shown that they are not listening to the voices of over 64% of South Australians on this issue.
Sign Ben Hood’s petition and tell Labor, once again, that this race-based advisory body is a waste of time and money.
Your sincerely,
Alex Antic
Liberal Senator for South Australia
The message we sent to Labor could hardly have been louder or clearer: we don’t want a race-based advisory body dictating “solutions” to the problems indigenous Australians face. We want real, practical outcomes, regardless of the ethnicity of those who come up with them.
However, SA Labor is still pushing ahead with a South Australian version of the Voice and will hold elections for the SA Voice on 16 March 2024.
While this version of the Voice is not embedded into the Constitution, only people of indigenous heritage are allowed to become members. Yet, to this day, no one has answered my simple question of how legitimate indigenous status is determined.
This state-based Voice will cost SA taxpayers $1.5 million per year, so one wonders what “solutions” they will come up with that haven’t already been tried, or that couldn’t simply be implemented right now without creating and funding a new bureaucracy. In the private sector, one would simply devise a strategy with concrete outcomes and implement it. Here, there is no plan, just more expensive virtue-signalling from Labor.
What will the SA Voice members do? My guess is that there will be a lot of complaining about colonialism and requests for more government funding of various ineffective programs, but not much else.
If you want to voice your perspective to the state Labor government, sign this petition created by SA Liberal, Ben Hood MLC: dontdividesa.com.au
Australians rejected the identity-politics narrative that the Voice represented at the last referendum, yet SA Labor still seeks to create their own version. They have shown that they are not listening to the voices of over 64% of South Australians on this issue.
Sign Ben Hood’s petition and tell Labor, once again, that this race-based advisory body is a waste of time and money.
Your sincerely,
Alex Antic
Liberal Senator for South Australia