Australia today - is not what it once was. It
is no longer - "White Australia." The identity
that the founding fathers of federation had hoped
to maintain by legislation. Today we are a majority
migration nation. Our nation will continue to become
more diverse every year.

The face of the nation has changed. In the decades
after WWII migrants began to shape our nation.
Upon arrival they convinced Australians in a heart-beat
to take up different cultures and cuisines.
Supplementing tea with coffee, pasta instead of potatoes.
Chinese food became
popular, and so on. Deli's opened up as did milk bars,
restaurants, food stores, and other conveniences.

Architecture changed - based on other principles than
English designs. Picking up the best practices
and habits of the newly arrived.
Showing that Australians really are pliable people
willing to learn. That they are well
experienced in taking folks from overseas and
absorbing the best their cultures have to offer. And,
learning to create opportunities for migrants to
interact with the established population as equals
in social and professional situations was crucial.

Now this country of ours has an opportunity to show who
we are becoming. To show who we truly are - and accept
the invitation being extended to us by our First Nations
People to settle once and for all the unfinished business
of their disadvantage.

I refuse to believe that the majority of Australians would
turn them down. I have a higher belief in Australians.
In choosing to campaign against the Voice on behalf of a
shrinking part of the electorate - Opposition Leader -
Peter Dutton and his supporters, risks turning the Party
of Menzies which governed Australia for 51 of the past
74 years, into a
Protest Party of permanent opposition.

If the Voice is defeated - sadly our Constitution will
speak only to who we were, without the effective power
to stop some of whom we sadly be becoming.

I hope this does not happen. I would hate to see the
"White Australia," mentality returned.

This is the article Foxy lifted most of her last post from....
http://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2023/september/george-megalogenis/demographics-and-voice#mtr

It was written by George Megalogenis, ex-husband of Annastacia Palaszczuk....I wonder where his political allegiances lay?

Essentially the article is saying the Libs should support the 'Yes' so that they won't lose too many seats in the next parliament....or something. In other words, they shouldn't do what they think is right for the nation, just do what they think will give them the most political advantage...ie become more like Labor.

Thankfully, it seems, the deplorables are better than that.

I would hate to see the "White Australia," mentality returned.
Foxy,
That is a pathetic & hypocritic remark because this "White" Australia has deliberately been misquoted as it would have really have implied a "Western" Nation rather than just white.
I don't suppose you'd have the sense to contemplate the alternative still hidden behind the Voice !
If you want to drag up past things & past thinking then do so by using past mentality ! Judging past mentality with the luxury of modern society benefits is something only stupid hypocrites do !

Foxy did not lift most of her last post from
the George Megalogenis link given by mhaze.

Back to the topic.

Guardian's Essential Poll released on Tuesday showed:

47% - against the Voice.
43% - for the Voice.
10% - unsure.

Hopefully there will be a swing in sentiment for the YES
vote. Fingers-crossed.

I watched the interview with Noel Pearson on
the "Insiders," this morning. It was so
moving. And as he explained just how much time
and effort has been put into the Uluru Statement
from the Heart. How much work, and thought, has gone
into all this for so many years. How on earth can
any decent Australian refuse the invitation being
made by their country's First Nations people is
really hard to understand.

Hopefully a refusal won't be on the cards. And the
shrinking nay sayers will simply not matter in
the general scheme of things.

Indyvidual,

When was the "White Australia" policy disbanded?

Do you know?