Indy,

A rather ambiguous statement on your part. One might assume a 'YES'vote would relieve future generations of a vexing problem in the here and now. Like with the gay marriage question the bigots then claimed the sky would fall if it was approve, it didn't, the bigots and racists advocating a 'NO' vote are saying the same, if the 'YES' vote is successful, its all based on lies and misinformation on their part. ' As an alien non citizen you can't vote anyway, so what's your problem!

"When was the "White Australia" policy disbanded?"

There was no particular moment which can be pointed to. Small changes to immigration policy which were started in 1947 and largely expanded by the Menzies Liberal government throughout the 1950s meant that by the time the Holt government finally abandoned the policy in 1966, it was already effectively dead.

Yes Indy, The problems will just begin if yes gets up. We can see this in State Labor legislation such as proposed by WA government. There are 40,000 land claims pending on Crown lands for exclusive tribal use. These must go through the High Court, so the taxpayer money flows. The States are responsible for treaties, repatriations, and truth telling, since their settlements. They will close all coal mining, gas mining, forest logging and restrict agriculture. The income that currently enhances Australia's productivity and push back to dependency on Communism for survival. This is part of the New World order to reduce population and pollution.

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Dear Foxy,

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We Australians are, generally speaking, a pretty easy-going, nonchalant lot. We even tend to be fairly lackadaisical when it comes to matters completely off our radar. “No problem, mate. Don’t worry about it !”

It seems that most of us have what researchers describe as an “implicit or unconscious [negative] bias toward first Australians”. We continue to see them as an inferior race. Many of us are also inclined to agree with Senator Pauline Hanson that the First Nations minority group already benefits from privileges that are denied to all other Australians.

In addition, the authors of our old colonial constitution have equipped it with a quasi-impenetrable protective system to prevent it from being modified – for better or for worse.

Whatever the referendum, the NO vote wins, on average, 82% of the time.

The fact is, we Aussies rarely vote for governments or their proposals. We usually vote against them. We do not choose who we want to govern us. We choose who we don’t want to govern us and vote for somebody else. We are governed by whoever is left after we have successfully eliminated whoever we did not want.

Therefore, for any referendum to have a chance of producing a positive outcome, the referendum question should be couched in negative terms – the ensuing vote also being negative, the two negatives make a positive !

By application of this principle, the question for the Voice referendum should be as follows :

« A Proposed Law: to alter the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Do you disapprove of this proposed alteration ? »

Response :

NO – 82%

YES – 12%

Result : positive – 82% of voters do not disapprove of the proposed alteration. They approve it !

The proposed law is adopted.

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Noticed on the news last night that odious individual, Noel Pearson, thinking that he can get away with suddenly seeming to be nice and reasonable when the chips are down.

Dear Banjo,

Thank you.

I loved your Referendum proposal.

I'm still staying positive though. I have high hopes
that the YES vote will succeed this time round because
same-sex marriage succeeded when it wasn't supposed to.
Then we had issues like Wik, Mabo, the Apology for the
Stolen Generations, and now hopefully - the Voice will
follow suit.

I'm hoping that the majority of Australians will
overwhelmingly endorse the YES vote.

I refuse to believe that they won't and that the colonial
mentality will win in this day and age in this country of
a "Fair Go."