Kudos ttbn. I've given my position on Aboriginal self determination in the past but the voice isn't about self determination of Aboriginals. Therefore I'm voting "Hell No"!
Thanks again for the information ttbn. Claims need to be fact checked but some sources are more trustworthy than others- sometimes the corruption in society is so great nothing can be trusted.
It's interesting to consider case studies of the weird and wonderful ways in which claims are distorted and corrupted. Take care ttbn.

Hi Foxy,

I must remind you, you have not been authorised to give out KUDOS! That is the exclusive domain of the KUDOS KID. Kudos is in limited supply around here, like pixie dust at the circus, and is only given on those very rare occasions to the most rightest and deserving of Forumites!

Hi Steele,

Is it a possibility that many on the 'NO' side are not really concerned with "A Voice to parliament" as such, that's not what this referendum is about for them, but they see a 'YES' vote as an attempt by a people and their supporters to wrestle some degree of authority from those who represent them and their social order, and have exercised the power of authority over Aboriginal people for a couple of hundred years. AND any change, they don't bloody like it! To this cohort the maintenance of the established hierarchy of authority in society is paramount.

Good to see the Good Ole' Boy from Alabama will be voting 'HELL NO'.

How sucessful aboriginals feel that are not looking to divide.
http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/stan-yarramunua-dryden-indigenous-man-explains-to-sam-newman-why-he-wishes-the-voice-referendum-wasn-t-taking-place/ar-AA1hlUlP?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=2ff43d6909474638a8211b58c9f4ca75&ei=17

Quote:"Stan Yarramunua Dryden, a world-renowned Aboriginal artist and businessman, said he felt the Voice was being pushed by out-of-touch 'social elites'.
'All these people that are pushing the Voice and all the rest of it is to keep themselves in jobs and their own immediate families,' he told Sam Newman and Don Scott's podcast You Cannot Be Serious.

'They're not thinking about the people living in tin shacks in Alice Springs and Darwin and Broome.'

He added: 'People have jumped onto it, the people with agendas, it's a cottage industry of division and people get delighted if they can create division because it gives them a sense of power and it gives them a source of income.'
Mr Dryden, who came from a deeply impoverished background with an alcoholic father before making millions as an artist, said people should 'get over it'.

'I'm Australian. All the stuff we're all talking about as Australians, there's something bigger than all of us anyway.'

How each of us votes will be up to us to decide
at the polling booth on the day.

The results will be known later that evening, hopefully.

Australian voters will make their decision.

One which we all will have to live with.

Each of us can merely hope that the votes will be what
we think is right.

But today - the outcome is still not certain.

CM

Yes. We all need to take care. From some of the comments made by Yes supporters, the fact that Jacinta Price now needs 24/7 police protection is understandable.

One has to only look at what's been happening at some
rallies. What is objectionable, what is dangerous about
extremists as I posted earlier is not that they're
extreme but that they are intolerant. The evil is now
what they say about their cause, but what they say about
their opponents.

The rally in Melbourne in front of Parliament House
last night by the anti-Daniel Andrews - had a strong police
presence. And rightly so. This rally was run by the "World
Wide Rallies for "Freedom". Professional network Who rally
to the extreme - in this case against COVID lockdowns
and vaccines - bearing shocking signs on display.

Police warned people to stay out of the CBD.