Dear Paul,

Yes. The more one reads and the more one learns -
it is quite startling - and the urgency of the situation
begins to unfold.

Indy,

Do you still refer to those of Aboriginal ancestry living in cities as "CONCRETE JUNGLE BUNNIES"? Not that you're racists or any such thing!

BTW, I live in a city, I have Aboriginal ancestry, ever so slight, I must be one of those "CONCRETE JUNGLE BUNNIES" you speak of, that's right you told once I was just that!

Dear Paul,

This link is worth a read:

http://theconversation.com/why-dna-tests-for-indigenous-heritage-mean-different-things-in-australia-and-the-us-105367

tbbn,

No it's you rabid righties who like to divide people and get your knickers in a knot at the very thought that somebody out there is getting something that you are not. Worse still it's about somebody who you secretly feel is inferior to yourself is somehow being treated as an equal. I've seen it all before - from the "free Commodores" that aborigines once used to get to the free luxury accommodation and taxpayer largesse lavished on refugees - all rants from the right.

If you really believe we are in a country of universal social equality and equal opportunity (rather than simply paying lip-service to the notion), then campaign that all those other social "benefits" they get must be immediately stripped away and let them take their chances like the rest of us.

Forget the Stolen Generation stories and hand over your own children to be raised by the aboriginal community where they would apparently get a better quality of life, if the counter argument is to be believed.

Above all the far right has become a haven for superstition and bigotry - full of hypocritical, angry and obsessed people and is finally beginning to implode and drown in it's own bile. History has shown this to be true and is inevitable unless they drag us into war.

The concept of The Voice means little to me personally but I'm amused by the spectacle it has brought out into the light.

refer to those of Aboriginal ancestry living in cities as "CONCRETE JUNGLE BUNNIES"
Paul1405,
When did I say that ?

Apparently there is a story paywalled in 'The Australian' by someone called Paige Taylor who claims that 'four out of five Australians believe it is important to establish a representative indigenous body enjoying constitutional protection'.

She offers up a survey of '532 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and 1990 non-Indigenous people' with '79 percent" supporting an Indigenous body in the Constitution.

2,522 tell us that 4 out of 5 Australians want the Voice? What about the rest of the 25 or so million Australians?

The person reporting on this information couldn't find what methodology was used to obtain this amazing information, but a previous survey done by the same mob, online, entailed respondents "receiving a small incentive for their participation", suggesting the respondents were "semi-professional serial survey respondents", similar to those people who are paid by marketeers to test/sample goods to test the water for manufactures.

This is the sort of dubious information - or misinformation - barracking for the Voice that we are going to get a lot from now on. The government is going to sit back and let any old activists do their dirty work for them; just as they are going to let the corporates spend millions on virtue signalling, enabling that same sleazy government to say that they won't be using taxpayer's money to fund a Yes campaign or a No campaign.