Dear Paul,

Thank You.

I cannot afford for health reasons to pay much
attention to the comments of some posters on
this Forum. They are simply too stressful
and toxic and I can't allow the comments to
be taken to heart. Although it's not always
easy to ignore them. However, Doctor's Orders -
I must try.

However, there's enough of a choice on this Forum
of rational people to communicate with, and that
helps. I don't look for opinions that agree with
my own - what gets to me though is unrelated,
racially charged assertions and simplistic
misrepresentations and totally false charges
against a modest straight-forward request.

Voters should hear the arguments on the proposition
before them not on slogans and memes. As Lenore
Taylor pointed out:

A year ago opinion polls showed the Indigenous Voice
Referendum had overwhelming voter approval.
She says that "Now the modest proposal that
Indigenous Australians be recognised in the
Constitution and is empowered to advise policy
makers on issues affecting them is tangled in
polarising attacks and unrelated allegations that
threaten to derail decades of work towards
reconciliation."

It would be dreadful if these nay sayers, these
spiritual beggars succeeded.

Paul1405,
You're demeaning real Indigenous by attempting to align yourself with them when you're clearly not one of them !
You really should apologise for embarrassing them !

"Just like the people who were prosecuted for peddling the false Hitler Diaries,"

Nup. They were prosecuted for faking the diaries. See the difference?

Oh sorry, its Paul we're talking to here, so of course he doesn't see the difference.

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"Yet he was repeatedly adamant it wasn't stolen."

Nup. I agreed it was stolen in a legal sense. But not in common usage sense

Indy,

I have never claimed to be Aboriginal, I've said in the past that I identify as an Australian, with predominately European (British and Irish) ancestry. You being ashamed of your ancestry, not willing to disclose it publicly, for fear of being labelled something or other. BTW you bang on against Aboriginal people, are you an Australian citizen? I have my doubts. If you were born o/s as were both of your parents, you are not recognised as an Australian unless you take out citizenship, which you have most likely never done. Most likely just a permanent resident living here for years creaming off public welfare, hummmm?

As I said earlier, as it becomes increasingly likely that the Yes-terday clan are gunna lose, they will become increasingly deranged and their tantrums will become increasingly irrelevant. And so it has come to pass.

We are now told that a No win will prove how racist we are. Of course, aboriginals are also voting No so they are obviously racist as well.

"Lenore Taylor points out that "Australians have six
weeks to make a decision on the Voice. It needs to
be based on facts, not fear.""

Lenore Taylor, who hasn't ever seen a leftwing trope she would support and exaggerate. "it needs to be based on facts". The trouble is they confuse opinion with fact. They think their opinions are fact and the other side's facts are opinion.

And they'll never understand the difference.

Let 'em whine and just bring on the vote

The referendum is about is about constitutionally dividing the nation on the basis of ancestral heritage and giving one group a democratic privilege. It is not a "modest proposal". It is a corruption of democracy and should be rejected. The "Yes" case is not failing because of alleged misinformation. It is failing because people are seeing the truth behind the vibe.