Indeed Steele

"The sky really isn't going to fall" for a reason you don't anticipate.

1. The increasing factional infighting and doubters amongst Aborigines on whether there should be a Voice or not, or a Treaty first, or a Truth Telling Compensation Authority first, is putting potential Yes Voters off, methinks.

2. The risk that the Voice in Parliament will be populated by exhibitionist radicals, like newly Independent Lidia Thorpe, is also putting Voters off.

3. There is none of the general political and popular Goodwill that has typified the few successful Referendums, like the 1967 one.

"The sky really isn't going to fall" because the high No-Vote in the Referendum vote will, most likely, make it fail.

Mavs

Should we expect any less from the Forums band of hard right haters, I don't think so. Dutton has already made up his mind that the Liberals will oppose the Voice, now he is looking for the flimsiest of excuses to do so. I can see a split deepening within the conservative ranks, with the moderate Bridget Archer indicating that she will be in support regardless. The Cow Cocky Party had only the one defector in Andrew Gee, the Liberals may have several.

How is it suppose to do that when it will not be allocating or distributing any funds itself.
SteeleRedux,
Its the social & financial cost that Yes & NO voters alike are concerned about.

Not as much as a whipper from the conservative ranks when the Tories wasted $5 billion on the failed French submarines. The same mob, who oppose Aboriginal recognition in any form are jumping up and down should the referendum cost $5 million, that's 1/1000th of the Morrison submarine waste.

Indyvidual

Of course truth telling has nothing to do with actual truth; it is just another way to berate white people.

We should not kid ourselves we whites are not subjected to racism throughout the Western world. The Voice is just the beginning of the discrimination against us. Yesterday I watched an interview with a glamorous black woman representing Black Lives Matter telling white people to 'get out of their (blacks) way'. This rubbish has been enabled by renegade whites.

What do we call these self-hating whites? The Socialists who call people like Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine 'Uncle Toms'. Any ideas on a suitable name for the white, Socialist trash.?

MORE GOOD NEWS FOR THE NO-VOTE

The politically Centrist Guardian reports 8th Feb 23:

"The conveners of the Greens’ First Nations advisory group say they do not support the voice to parliament or a referendum on Indigenous constitutional recognition, publicly rebuking their federal party room and instead backing the departed senator Lidia Thorpe’s opposition to the move.

Dr Tjanara Goreng Goreng, the national co-convener of the Greens’ First Nations Network, claimed other members may follow Thorpe out the door, and pushed back on the decision of federal MPs and senators to publicly campaign for the voice.

“We don’t agree to a voice in the constitution. We won’t move from that position. It has no power,” she told Guardian Australia..."

More see http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/08/greens-first-nations-conveners-side-with-lidia-thorpe-and-say-they-do-not-support-voice-to-parliament