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The Voice : Comments

By John Töns, published 11/10/2023

I will be voting YES. My reason for voting yes is that the Voice enshrines in the constitution a principle that does not just apply to indigenous Australians but applies to all of us.

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This is presently doing the rounds on the Net. I don't know about the validity of this so I left out the names .

I just have to mention this. I was to go to Mudgee next Tuesday for an initial talk with the Warrabinga-Wiradjuri group concerning preliminary access onto a Mudgee tenement we were granted . Then we got a call asking who they were to invoice. We said, for what? They said, ‘sitting fees’ for six people at $700 a head, plus travel (........), plus the cost of the ............meeting room and we think plus the costs of their WA native heritage solicitor .............. who was flying over. Going forward they wanted $10K for legals on a pro forma agreement that stipulated $10K be paid to them for every year we held the tenement. Then if we wanted to actually do any actual geological work we had to get a native title heritage report done ($20K) and then they would let us know what their costs would be for watching us explore.
Posted by Indyvidual, Thursday, 12 October 2023 6:44:19 AM
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Anyone stupid enough to vote yes will be giving Albanese a weapon to belt the average Ozzie into submission.

Anyone with a brain should realise there is a reason he has kept any details completely hidden.
Posted by Hasbeen, Thursday, 12 October 2023 8:27:42 AM
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Yup spot on.

The race powers within the Constitution only get directed at Indigenous Australians.

As the cry from the Eureka Rebellion goes "That it is the inalienable right of every citizen to have a voice in making the laws he is called upon to obey".

A Constitutionally enshrined Voice to inform Constitutional powers only directed at Indigenous Australians seems bloody fair to me.
Posted by SteeleRedux, Thursday, 12 October 2023 9:12:11 AM
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The race powers within the Constitution only get directed at Indigenous Australians.
SteeleRedux,
Really ? Whenever I turn on ABC Radio it's all saturation racism, massacres, poor health, inadequate housing etc etc.
ABC should stand for Aborigine Bleating Company ! Why is it that everything that comes from effort is demanded by the Indigenous yet nothing is offered by them in return ?
Posted by Indyvidual, Thursday, 12 October 2023 8:58:22 PM
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