Dear Mr O,

It was the Irish playwright John Millington Synge
who said:

"It is the timber of poetry
that wears most surely ..."

SR

Your quest for an ATSIC 2.0/"Voice" - this time on steroids - above Parliament under the Constitution - is FUTILE.

No way will it pass the necessary Referundum, even if an Albanese-Shorten-Albanese Labor Gov't gained power 2022-25.

Too many Australians recall ATSIC's record...and that "Voice" would amount to Veto power over the will of Australia's more inclusive/democratic House of Reps and Senate.

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Hi Foxy

I'm glad you're back. You are a very fair, rare, centrist, not to mention female commenter on OLO.

Glad you liked the de-Girted "Advance Australia Fair" version.

Cheers

Pete

Dear plantagenet,

Still no answer.

Again. How did ATSIC "embugger the Parliamentary Government system"?

plantagenet,
Where did you get the absurd notion that Steele (or anyone at all) wants the Voice to be above parliament?

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Dear ttbn,

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You wrote :

« The SMH article highlights the brainwashing of children and the irreconcilable differences and hatreds between black/pretend black and white. It is about the crap attitudes of a nasty minority who would still be living in the Stone Age if it was not for Great Britain. Or, worse, the continent could have been settled by more unenlightened Europeans with more brutal solutions than the immensely costly, totally unappreciated ones Australian governments have had thrown back in their faces for almost 250 years.

When I read such garbage, I wish that the British settlers had sailed on by. The original inhabitants would still have been had deal with who ever else came along, but we wouldn't have had to put up with them. »
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If you don’t mind my saying so, ttbn, when I read that post, the thought that ran through my mind was something Nelson Mandela is quoted as having said after having spent 27 years unjustly in prison in South Africa, including 18 years in the notorious Robben Island prison :

« As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison »

He adds in the final paragraphs of his lengthy autobiography “Long Walk to Freedom” (p. 751) :

« It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. A man who takes away another man’s freedom is a prisoner of hatred. He is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness … The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

« When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. »

This is Ubuntu philosophy : “I am because we are”, or “to be human is to affirm one´s humanity by recognizing the humanity of others and establishing respectful human relations with them”.

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