Jacinta Price has certainly shone in a highly emotional and in-your face area, but Territorians will be waiting to see how she performs in the more mundane areas that affect all of them in their daily lives.

Paul

I don't feel any need to look up anything, thank you. I'd be happy for you to tell me what you know. Are you talking about PMs not of the main party (senior) in a Coalition government, as I am?

Peter Dutton, an ex-cop
Has shown the voters what he's got
He's said NO to all the Blacks
He's won his case without the facts
A future Prime Minister he wants to be
Dishonest tactics we don't need to see
This is the way it does appear
He can garner in people with what they most fear
We should not allow this sort of play
To influence us when we have our say
We need to feel that things must change
By taking stock then re-arrange
We should be a nation of a Fair Go
Where a leader's behaviour isn't so low
Where White Folks and Blacks could both abide
Without there being a great divide
The next time you go to the ballot box
Think of your vote and what could be lost
Don't choose someone who'll only see
Their career path ahead of you and me
Therefore think wisely as you mark the paper
Are you choosing an ambitious baiter?
If you're convinced that you are not
You'll probably happy with what you've got
But give a thought to the voiceless people
Whose lives will continue to be feeble
You haven't given them a choice
By voting against giving them a Voice
They now won't be able to be equal
They'll be waiting patiently for another sequel!

ttbn,

'Blackjack' McEwen knew more about Billy 'Big Ears' McMahon than just politics, and he certainly wasn't going to have one of "them" as PM, even if McMahon's Liberal colleague were willing to forgive some slight indiscretions of Bill's. That's why the Liberals ended up choosing Senator John Gorton as PM.

Whilst protesting the Vietnam War at Sydney airport, and PM Billy was flying to Canberra on a commercial flight one Sunday arvo (Even PM's used TAA in those days, for the short hop to Canberra) Billy approached us young protesters for a chat, he was a pleasant sort of fella, he asked me and one or two others if we'd like to accompany him to Canberra, he could arrange it, I was about 17 at the time Old Bill was about 65! Well what does that tell you.

Foxy,

"Has shown the voters what he's got
He's said NO to all the Blacks
He's won his case without the facts"

I'm afraid you need to stop and take a deep breathe here. The aboriginal elite have called for a week of silent reflection and perhaps you could take a leaf out of their book.

The referendum result has shown that you and many like you, utterly misunderstand the Australian people. The leaders you adhere to utterly misunderstand the Australian people. It does you no credit to start asserting that the result was won by 'No' "without the facts".

The Australian people had the facts. They probably understood the facts better than you. They also understood that many of the facts were being withheld by the aboriginal industry because they were unpalatable to the Australian people. You and those like you, ignored the lack of facts for reasons that are all too obvious.

So before you set out to denigrate the 60% who think differently to you perhaps you ought to ponder how you got it so wrong, how the leaders you admire got it so wrong.

The aboriginal elite and those, like you, who were too terrified of being labelled 'racist' to oppose the aboriginal elite thought they could withhold the facts. That the Australian people were able to see that they were being asked to sign a blank cheque and to simply refuse, is to their credit and they ought not be denigrated for their overwhelming decision.

Paul

You have gone off on a tangent without answering if you knew what I actually said about PMs, and if your wide reading had actually revealed the same thing.

Never mind. I like a bit of history. Billy Big Ears was the worst Prime Minister in my life - until Albanese. Black Jack was a nasty old bugger.

And, this might surprise you, but at the time you mention, the Vietnam War, I was a Lefty, who vowed that I would never vote Liberal as long as my bumhole pointed south. I had Commonwealth Police hunting a younger brother at my work place. The silly little bugger actually wrote to Sneddon telling him that he would not be registering. They got him eventually, and I had the experience of visiting him in jail.

Times change. My bumhole still points south, and the Liberals are too far Left for me. But, I've never forgotten the Vietnam days, and I'm still against conscription, and I'm still angry about the young blokes (blokes only remember) who were caught up in it, including the regular soldiers who are still suffering from that pointless conflict.

mhaze,

Yes. It's highly amusing how we NO voters only voted No because we were mislead by misinformation and dastardly non-Labor politicians like Dutton. The arrogance of the YES crowd is mind-boggling, and their lack of self-awareness even more so. All bullshite and self-delusion.

This says it all.

"Despite an 80,000-strong volunteer army, the endorsements of all the major sports codes, multi-million-dollar corporate funding, celebrity spruikers, months of favourable media coverage and Their ABC being even more unbalanced than is its norm, the Voice went to the people and was thrashed. And thrashed decisively."

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/the-voice/2023/10/daze-of-whine-and-poses/