Ipso

It's definitely a scam. Lawyers, including those for a Voice, have pointed out that Albanese and his followers are lying. The whole thing is based on the big lie that aboriginal Australians don't have a voice - they do, and they gave always had one, just like everyone else. Whether enough voters see through the scam only time will tell. If they don't see through it, God help Australia.

Ron Pike in 'Blunt Truths from an Old Bushie', (Quadrant Online today) is "tired of and bristling at" demands that he vote yes to the Voice.

Ron, the old bushy, grew up, played sport with, and worked with aboriginal men in rural Queensland, where skin colour didn't matter, and everyone worked for "our" country. None of his mates would ever be arrogant enough to 'welcome' him to his own country.

When Europeans arrived here in 1788, the continent was barely able to support half a million people. Now, Australia supports 25 million people, and feeds another 60 million overseas.

Ron reckons that aboriginal activists should stop "baying", that their tenure on our land was "negative". They might even reach out to "our mob" and say thank you. Thanks for:

. showing them the way out of the most "hidebound, violent and atrophied culture on earth".

. for education and the things it provides.

. health and medical facilities

. housing a food.

Aborigines owe us a debt, and "seeking further representation in Parliament is not the way to balance the books."

No mention of the Blakticvists' pet poodle, Anthony Albanese

Ipso Fatso & ttbn,
Australians of today inherited whatever is out there. Their parents have compensated past generations & have compensated the indigenous. Today’s non-indigenous are now compensating the indigenous plus a much, much larger number of people claiming indigenous heritage which really is not indigenous at all, it is small part indigenous. In most such cases the indigenous heritage is a many times lesser proportion than what they claim & it’s those people who are pushing for the VOICE as their hope is that it becomes a great new Gravy train for them. Never mind that the real needy indigenous will miss out again as they did with previous generations of Labor bureaudroids !

I know that indigenous were not treated fairly when foreigners arrived.
They need to learn to accept things for what they are, try to make the best life they can for themselves and their families (present and future) and not be filled with resentment or allow the past to destroy their future.
- That said, it's probably easier said than done.

Het ttbn,
- From your earlier comment
"If you don't want a cashless society - as you say you do - you had better start caring about what a central bank could do, and would do. You will have heard of the social credit system in China. That's where the likes of Albanese would take us - in a flash. Even the Coalition didn't say 'no way' as I expected them too.
This stuff has no similarity with Russian funds being frozen, as you seem to be suggesting. That’s normal in their present situation, as it was with Iran (might still be). Not that it has had much effect on Russia or Iran."

Both sides are bipartisan? no big surprise I guess - 2 wings of the some bird.
- 'Democracy' my left foot, the whole systems rigged, probably how it always was and always will be.

...Well, the US sanctions have caused de-dollarisation, and on the one hand I'm sick of US politicians doing whatever they want wherever they want all over the globe for the sake of western hegemony.
- The world would be a better place if all that stopped.
But on the other hand - the death of the dollar may just bring forth a new era in monetary systems, which could very well be central bank digital currencies.

- Out of the frypan and into the fire we shall go.

Natives were treated fairly by authorities; there were written instructions that they were to be treated fairly, that any wrongs done to them would be dealt with in the same way wrongs to settlers would be dealt with. There was no official campaign against indigenous people. Some individuals did the wrong thing, just as they do today.