There has been a lot of ranting and raving about this - typically uninformed and without any basis in fact. It's a throwback to the manufactured fear campaign when Wik threatened our back yards would be claimed under Native Title.

Similar governmental arrangements exist in Canada and the USA for their respective first nation peoples.

Almost all the opposition and fear-mongering has come from white people (and one prominent reactionary aboriginal extremist) as well a somewhat premature political stance from the National Party.

Here is a summary of the report commissioned in 2018 and submitted to the Morrison government in 2021.

https://voice.niaa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-12/indigenous-voice-co-design-process-final-report_1.pdf

The racists are not interested in the welfare of Aboriginal people, they never have been. To mask their objectionable beliefs they simply create a false premise that appears to be promoting what is in the best interests of the Indigenous, nothing could be further from the truth. What motivates these racists is their belief that Aboriginals are inferior and not worthy of assistance or advantage, and their own position of superiority and privilege should be maintained at all cost.

Ho Ho.

We should take note of South Africa, where ten million whites enterprise away day by grinding day to support fifty million blacks on welfare.

Dan.

ttbn,

All each of us can do is speak from our own experiences
I guess. And as far as our Indigenous people are concerned
most of us are very limited in our understanding and
experiences of our First Nations people. The history
of this nation speaks for itself. The colonisation of this
country has a dreadful history as far as our Indigenous
people are concerned. It's a shocker. If you think I am
barking mad - that is something over which I have no control.
I did not writer the history of this country and it stands
whether you like it or not.

I see the request of the Indigenous people to be able to advise
on policies and programs that affect them - as a very fair
request. You obviously don't. Again - that is something over
which I have no control. All I can do is vote according to my
own conscience. If you don't like that - I'm afraid that is
something you shall have to learn to live with.

zmay your day be as pleasant as you are.

We do live in a democracy - which means each of us
can have a say. Usually I am quite polite. I was
raised to believe that good manners still matter.
That we should always be polite, careful, and caring
to all people as you possibly can. But if people like
racists and bigots are nasty and cruel, then F ... it,
they've got it coming!

The Left are always "ranting and raving", Rache, and if you are "uninformed", it is because of Ockernese's refusal to provide details. If you don't know enough about it, vote no. It is you Leftists who are the racists, thinking that descendants of aborigines are "inferior" and in need of help that others are not. The Voice is pure racism. Labor is steeped in racism. Your mate Whitlam described Vietnamese as "“f. king Vietnamese Balts".

The majority of Australians with indigenous heritage are thriving. They don't need to be treated differently by a racist, hard left Labor government that is into the divide and conquer routine practised by all totalitarians.

A few posters on OLO are not going to have any influence whatsoever on whether or not the rest of Australia votes yes or no on apartheid. Since the humiliating and dictatorial treatment handed out to them during Covid, and the fear-mongering of climate change, Australians seem to have dropped their bundles, and it's hard to judge what they will do.

I don't believe the Voice is of much interest to average Australians who, we should remember, are not represented on OLO, and wouldn't bother voting on it if they had the choice not to. Just like we wouldn't have this shitshow government if voting wasn't compulsory.

If the vote is Yes, my 'Australia is rooted' attitude will be vindicated.