one thing crocodile tears Albanese did achieve was one of the greatest mis-directions of the Australian people away from the greater than 30,000 Excess Deaths over 2021-2022 .. and still rising in 2023 .. as a consequence of the previous government and now his government, pushing the 'safe & effective' C19 shots
now the media can stop fussing over whether it was one tear or two from Tony, perhaps they can ask him about investigating the Excess Deaths across our nation
but of course to do so will find all roads leading to his and every other State and Territory government door
And also a smokescreen for people putting in Submissions for/against the 2023 Digital ID Bill (where people were allowed a mere 12 calendar days to put their submissions in).
And also a smokescreen for the WHO to basically take over the direction of our country's Health depts should another plandemic occur.
So very many smokescreens...makes you wonder if the Voice was only ever intended to be a smokescreen, and twistedly, yet again using and abusing Aborigines for TPTB's own benefit...
29 Sept - 10th Oct was the only time to get a submission in!
The Digital ID Bill basically means, in time, everyone will need a Digital ID to deal with govts online, and from there it will swell out to the private sector, and the Accreditation Rules are just awful for the providers (eg ISPs). And plenty of requirements for biometric data in there as well (facial recognition, voice recognition etc). It's a nightmare. IMO, we'd be better off unplugging from the internet than forging ahead with this Digital ID legislation! :-(
Better yet, just delete this Digital ID legislation and get rid of almost all the parliamentarians (and then some)!
I think it's awful. I used to believe I lived in a much more free country where we all were wary of losing privacy rights to large institutions whether govt or corporations.
Oh and I used to trust the Govt with my privacy; now I am expecting that in the future, if I don't comply with mandates, I won't be able to operate a business or take out a loan (not that I want a loan so much)...
Digital ID is being spread without legislation. I’m a pensioner, and when I tried to access my account and download the my gov app, got all of the above. Accountants are asking clients to provide all this info . Several weeks ago I was watching business on Sunday on Sky, and they were talking about a new cloud app the government has signed up to - to keep your personal data “safe” this cloud holds the info for a number of other countries and investment firms - very exclusive. Getting ready to hand us over to the WHO and one world government? Another proposed bill under Morrison was for CDBC’s it was defeated, but the banks are going ahead anyway.
What the yes camp ie the government, should have done is to make all workplaces force their employees to request an absentee mail in vote, bring the ballots to work and have a workplace commissar supervise all employees freely and voluntarily ticking the “yes” box, failure to do so resulting in being fired. Then require all applicants for any future jobs to show proof of a “yes” vote in their application . Australians live this kind of freedom. If you’re not going to run referendums safely and effectively what’s the point?
It’s like the referendum. Where we all voted no to the Australia card- we’re getting a digital one by stealth. Or the referendum where we all voted no to councils getting national representation- we got that as well. I’m sure there are others. And I do not remember being asked if we wanted a secretive national cabinet - not transparent! Maybe we need citizen driven referendums on legislation like the Swiss
Maybe we should just have instated politicians after all...but Jury Duty style, where regular Joes across the country are randomly picked and they do the job for 3 years at a time! Might help to rid us of much corruption, and honestly, regular Joes couldn't do a worse job than what these Fuckwit Feds are currently doing!!!
I discovered years ago that apparently the Commonwealth of Australia is a corporation listed under foreign countries on the US corporation files. Does that mean we elect them pay them a fortune and they are working for the corporation not us ?
You mean we only THOUGHT they were working for us, the people, and that they were meant to enact legislation to make our lives better?!?! OMG!!
;-)
But seriously, nothing fazes me anymore. I, too, have read about Australia being a corporation. Supposedly occurred under Gough Whitlam, no less.
All I can glean from everything I have seen, heard and read about politics in my life is that it's a truly nasty business. People swap sides all the time (but it's usually more along the lines of "all for one and more for me"!), deviousness is rife, if anyone is out to help the Common Man in politics, it's usually only the newbies, and their political lives are either abused and short-lived (eg Ricky Muir), or they are steered towards the corporate greed and tow the party line/change their views accordingly (Tanya Plibersek comes to mind, here, as do many others). And those who continually try give a shit end up leaving, are voted out, or their party sidelines them - or drops them altogether. However, there are a rare few who manage to hang on by the skin of their teeth and try to make a difference.
Mostly, though, politics is a horrid place, and I couldn't imagine a worse working environment. Imagine being surrounded by that scum. Having to sit in the same room as them. To interact with them. They are mostly immoral narcissists and sociopaths, a bunch of liars, cheats and bullies, who'll give Chesire cat grins and promise the World come Election Day, but in reality they're hellbent on getting their own way, and/or that of the higher power they truly work for (who, as we unequivocally know, is most definitely NOT the Common Man).
I’ve come across Sudy before in andb space I was on, and I understand that argument
, but I’m concerned about the fact we all voted no in a referendum to having an Australia card, and the commmonwealth government is creating a national digital via one by stealth . The other is we do have a national body for councils which we also voted down. The concept of the government handing all our personal information over to the WHO for one world health initiatives - which they have agreed to also bothers me.
I’d love to know, but like Medibank the people insured with them were considered to be shareholders. When they were privatised the government were allowing them to buy their own shares as part of the privatisation float. With the debt our governments have run up few of us could afford the shares in that corporation. I think we are incorporated in the US as part of the UN. Just look at the money we throw at these unelected bureaucrats.
This article highlights a point I have made before -
1) Rebekah Barnett is perhaps Australia's best journalist (not currently being locked up and tortured)
2) The voice was resoundingly successful in it's (to me) clear aim of dividing the population, distracting them from the Covid Crimes, along with the usual funnelling-of-resources-semi-legal-corruption of any state action. It is akin to a nationwide discussion on which colour hair looks better while the owner of the hair commits treason, democide, and steals billions.
What disturbs me is this notion of control. It is clear that the ruling class no longer (if they ever did) consider themselves servants of the people. Albo on TV called the referendum a "failure." The only way the referendum could have been a failure is if we achieved no result. The people have spoken but apparently we said the wrong thing.
Oct 15, 2023·edited Oct 15, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett
On kindness... I've only just realised how much we lefty types are used, manipulated and abused on the value of 'kindness'.
The poor young during the pandemic...
"Be kind to the old people and lock down" for a disease would barely impact you (and don't tell the young about the banning of drugs that could obviate any need for pandemic action at all, nor about the financial costs that will burden their lives).
"Be kind to the old people and take this vaccine" that certainly carries more risks than benefits to this cohort, and that didn't stop transmission to the old people.
"Be kind to the Indigenous and vote Yes" to goodness knows what final consequence.
And they're been propagandised through their school life with Climate Change Terror that will facilitate their willingness to lockdown for Climate (as promised by Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton), no doubt into Smart Cities to come. The kids have been given the imperative to advocate for their imprisonment.
I forgot "Be kind to the trans people" (where 'kindness' is defined as quietly accepting and encouraging chemical and surgical mutilation) so we can profit off the surgeries and promote our transhumanist ideology and restructure society against the family
When people fear for their lives they are easy to control. I am very worried that the current manufactured 'division' will be used for false flag purposes to 'unify' under new 'emergencies.' Anyone reading the tea leaves can see this.
The 'division' is manufactured by the media only. Let's see if Australians can hold their ground in the face of a new 'emergency.' It will scare the hell out of people into giving up their rights.
Oct 15, 2023·edited Oct 16, 2023Liked by Rebekah Barnett
Just because we can use a single phrase "indigenous Australians" to describe a subset of the population doesn't mean that those people think alike or have the same experiences and needs. Firstly, they come from hundreds of language groups and locations thousands of kilometres apart, and so developed largely independent of other groups. All these groups of did, however, have the same general experience of invasion, dispossession, novel diseases, oppression and murder - in some states to the point of few survivors. All can now benefit from Western civilisation and be harmed by its excesses.
Secondly, many are mixed race - with quite a few seeming, to the eye at least, to have primarily non-indigenous ancestry. Thirdly, they live in many places with different degrees of urbanisation. Finally, they are individuals.
Governments can and do consult with indigenous people. It is likely better to do so at a local and individual level, rather than primarily via a peak body with multiple layers of division and competitive, political, argument through which individual experience, knowledge and choices need to fight upwards against groupthink and contrary viewpoints, in order to arrive at the top where they might be heard as part of whatever the Voice would state in public.
In any political system, the noisiest and most motivated people tend to hold sway and suppress the views of those not so ideologically bent. This can lead to remarkable, enlightened, people wisely representing the positions of many of the group's constituents. However, it often rewards bitter, argumentative, people who accentuate differences and generate the controversy which brings them publicity - the oxygen of politics and prominent public discourse.
Look at BLM vs. ordinary African Americans, or the best known feminists vs. women. Look especially at trans activists and their legions of people who think they are trans due to the current social contagion compared to the actual, relatively small, number of real trans people, most of whom want to get on with their lives without oppression, with support and without making a scene about it, or shoving anything down other people's throats. Most women did not rise en-masse to suppress the worst excesses of the most prominent feminists. I guess the same is true in many social movements which have some basis in liberation, but which develop strongly along the lines of accusations of oppression and so cause intense divisions and likely misrepresentations of the people the movements are supposed to liberate.
According to polls, the Voice started with majority approval. I suspect that a major factor in the decline in approval was all the guilting (my spellchecker objects) of the entire public on the national stage, month after month, pushed hard by the ABC, Guardian et al. that this poorly defined constitutional amendment was the only kind, respectable, way to help indigenous people. Some respond positively to this - recent electorate maps indicate they were mainly in dense urban, and so successful middle-class suburbs. Others think it is a mistake to succumb to such emotional and likely unbalanced arguments, which would be to encourage more of the same. This is especially the case since some of the strongest proponents stated that the voice was the first step towards a treaty (not necessarily a bad idea, I think) and reparations, which are extraordinarily divisive.
As the months wore on, I guess more and more people wondered whether they really wanted the constitution to be changed to give a special place in federal parliament for the very same people - and over time, the same intense and often highly aggrieved type of people - to be given a special voice concerning legislation and executive government and perhaps the judiciary.
It is not hard to consult locally, and I guess this is an ongoing process all over the country. Nor is there any problem with one or more national or state based indigenous organisations lobbying and stating whatever they like to the public and different levels of government. Sometimes, the local indigenous people's best advice and pleas are ignored - for instance when women and elders requested indigenous alcohol bans in outback Australia be continued, but left-leaning woke-infested governments decided they couldn't possibly continue such a racist arrangement.
The question was whether we wanted a constitutionally mandated, peak indigenous body, with all its levels of politics, and likely guilt-based political suppression of viewpoints, permanently installed as an adjunct to federal parliament. This would surely result in the parliament itself likely being disinclined to decide anything different from what that body proclaimed was in the interest of all indigenous Australians, for fear of generating more arguments, feelings of rejection and accusations of racism, lack of care etc.
There is one thing governments can and should do for indigenous Australians, without arguments about colonialism, guilt or politics. To the extent that they have darker skin, spend more time indoors or wearing clothing than their ancestors, they are now are at very high risk for having insufficient circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D for their immune systems to work properly. Australians with white skin are already at high risk for this, but in the absence of vitamin D3 supplements in quantities 8 (oops "80" was a typo) or more times those very small amounts recommended by the government (0.015 mg a day - 600 IU - https://www.eatforhealth.gov.au/nutrient-reference-values/nutrients/vitamin-d), indigenous Australians are even more at risk of devastating health problems due to their immune system being unable to work properly. The most pertinent research on vitamin D and the immune system is cited and discussed at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/ .
Western countries are in one big psyop, Feminism was a Trojan horse, those who wanted to control us fed the belief that liberating women would give them choice- no workplace discrimination if they had a child ( some workplaces wouldn’t hire or allow career continuity if you had a child) you could choose to work have a career or be a stay at home mum). The reality over time is that increased taxes cost of living etc means not many have a choice not to work and pay taxes. That comes to the next psyop - the government gets to raise your child from the cradle, and can brainwash them in climate, sexualise them from age four( in Victoria) and give historical revisionism- all whites bad. When it comes to MSM look at all the reality shows- all based on “feelings” not reality. All to meet WEF and UN agendas. It’s the cultural Marxist doctrine on how to turn “ democratic “ countries into socialist countries- read totalitarian states. The voice was an attempt at racial division like BLM and Albanese is a committed communist - Trotsky I believe, even the Russians didn’t like him.
The 'Yes' campaign was so poorly structured that one wonders whether it was designed to fail......... I have little faith in the honesty of the AEC & was extremely shocked that the referendum failed. One can only conclude that it was never meant to be successful. Did Albo only win office if he promised to hold the referendum? And, now that it has been held & failed, will he disappear into obscurity, having served his purpose?
She's the acknowledged WEF "Young Global Leader" ALP minister for doing everything related to digital capture "for climate" and mis/disinformation as well.
Hon Clare O'Neil MP, Member for Hotham
Positions: Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for Cyber Security
And she's on the National Security Committee which "considers the highest-priority, highest risk and most strategic nationals security matters of the day. Decisions of the NSC do not require the endorsement of Cabinet. Decisions with financial implications are endorsed through a joint meeting of the NSC and ERC."
How many people know this group of people wield so much power? How did this happen without our informed consent?
Always were, always will be........... distracted. The vote for NO probably would have been higher if the "stick it up your bum sideways" votes had been counted. Great campaign material for any savvy, unemotional, fairdinkum alternative parties out there in our there land, moving forward. What a gift from the navel gazing, lint picking brigade. The only reflection they'll do is looking @ their stupid mugs in the mirror. Great work again Rebekah, I'm surprised they haven't tried to recruit you to their side, so they can shut you down.
Well done what an amazingly well-written piece. Good observation on the Motte and Bailey fallacy. That is exactly what it was. And good quote selection from Jacinta on the instrumentalisation of remote people for the agenda of others. They have had their racial identity dragged through the public square held up to a vote, and are now being told by the ABC among others that the No vote is a setback for them. Just setting them up for a fall and for nothing. No benefit. Could anything be more disgraceful? And the total waste of more than $400 million
I am proud of the Australian population. Their motives for voting No may vary greatly but in general it shows that they are no longer the sheeples they were during the last three years. The timing of this referendum was no accident. Our leadership, puppets of the globalists, tried to take away 'the first people's sovereignty' for an easy job of surrendering our country. This has failed.
one thing crocodile tears Albanese did achieve was one of the greatest mis-directions of the Australian people away from the greater than 30,000 Excess Deaths over 2021-2022 .. and still rising in 2023 .. as a consequence of the previous government and now his government, pushing the 'safe & effective' C19 shots
now the media can stop fussing over whether it was one tear or two from Tony, perhaps they can ask him about investigating the Excess Deaths across our nation
but of course to do so will find all roads leading to his and every other State and Territory government door
And a smokescreen for the 1984 (I mean, misinformation) Bill.
And also a smokescreen for people putting in Submissions for/against the 2023 Digital ID Bill (where people were allowed a mere 12 calendar days to put their submissions in).
And also a smokescreen for the WHO to basically take over the direction of our country's Health depts should another plandemic occur.
So very many smokescreens...makes you wonder if the Voice was only ever intended to be a smokescreen, and twistedly, yet again using and abusing Aborigines for TPTB's own benefit...
I knew nothing about the digital ID bill.. I only thought they were pushing that on Directors.
https://www.finance.gov.au/about-us/news/2023/digital-identity-bill-2023-consultation
29 Sept - 10th Oct was the only time to get a submission in!
The Digital ID Bill basically means, in time, everyone will need a Digital ID to deal with govts online, and from there it will swell out to the private sector, and the Accreditation Rules are just awful for the providers (eg ISPs). And plenty of requirements for biometric data in there as well (facial recognition, voice recognition etc). It's a nightmare. IMO, we'd be better off unplugging from the internet than forging ahead with this Digital ID legislation! :-(
Better yet, just delete this Digital ID legislation and get rid of almost all the parliamentarians (and then some)!
I think it's awful. I used to believe I lived in a much more free country where we all were wary of losing privacy rights to large institutions whether govt or corporations.
Privacy...this is the key battleground we must regain.
Those days are long gone, aren't they? :-(
Oh and I used to trust the Govt with my privacy; now I am expecting that in the future, if I don't comply with mandates, I won't be able to operate a business or take out a loan (not that I want a loan so much)...
Digital ID is being spread without legislation. I’m a pensioner, and when I tried to access my account and download the my gov app, got all of the above. Accountants are asking clients to provide all this info . Several weeks ago I was watching business on Sunday on Sky, and they were talking about a new cloud app the government has signed up to - to keep your personal data “safe” this cloud holds the info for a number of other countries and investment firms - very exclusive. Getting ready to hand us over to the WHO and one world government? Another proposed bill under Morrison was for CDBC’s it was defeated, but the banks are going ahead anyway.
They're about to move to fining Directors who havn't switched over. End of November I think.
Nothing says Freedom like a big, fat fine, eh?!
I am gonna need to do something then.
And the mis/ dis information bill!!
What the yes camp ie the government, should have done is to make all workplaces force their employees to request an absentee mail in vote, bring the ballots to work and have a workplace commissar supervise all employees freely and voluntarily ticking the “yes” box, failure to do so resulting in being fired. Then require all applicants for any future jobs to show proof of a “yes” vote in their application . Australians live this kind of freedom. If you’re not going to run referendums safely and effectively what’s the point?
Reminds me a lot of how it went down for the gay marriage vote......
And another thing I can't quite remember....
It’s like the referendum. Where we all voted no to the Australia card- we’re getting a digital one by stealth. Or the referendum where we all voted no to councils getting national representation- we got that as well. I’m sure there are others. And I do not remember being asked if we wanted a secretive national cabinet - not transparent! Maybe we need citizen driven referendums on legislation like the Swiss
Maybe we should just have instated politicians after all...but Jury Duty style, where regular Joes across the country are randomly picked and they do the job for 3 years at a time! Might help to rid us of much corruption, and honestly, regular Joes couldn't do a worse job than what these Fuckwit Feds are currently doing!!!
I discovered years ago that apparently the Commonwealth of Australia is a corporation listed under foreign countries on the US corporation files. Does that mean we elect them pay them a fortune and they are working for the corporation not us ?
You mean we only THOUGHT they were working for us, the people, and that they were meant to enact legislation to make our lives better?!?! OMG!!
;-)
But seriously, nothing fazes me anymore. I, too, have read about Australia being a corporation. Supposedly occurred under Gough Whitlam, no less.
All I can glean from everything I have seen, heard and read about politics in my life is that it's a truly nasty business. People swap sides all the time (but it's usually more along the lines of "all for one and more for me"!), deviousness is rife, if anyone is out to help the Common Man in politics, it's usually only the newbies, and their political lives are either abused and short-lived (eg Ricky Muir), or they are steered towards the corporate greed and tow the party line/change their views accordingly (Tanya Plibersek comes to mind, here, as do many others). And those who continually try give a shit end up leaving, are voted out, or their party sidelines them - or drops them altogether. However, there are a rare few who manage to hang on by the skin of their teeth and try to make a difference.
Mostly, though, politics is a horrid place, and I couldn't imagine a worse working environment. Imagine being surrounded by that scum. Having to sit in the same room as them. To interact with them. They are mostly immoral narcissists and sociopaths, a bunch of liars, cheats and bullies, who'll give Chesire cat grins and promise the World come Election Day, but in reality they're hellbent on getting their own way, and/or that of the higher power they truly work for (who, as we unequivocally know, is most definitely NOT the Common Man).
You discovered a hoax with no relationship to any law or reality....It is also promoted by "sovereign citizen" lunatics ........https://citizensparty.org.au/australia-not-corporation-its-corporate-state
I’ve come across Sudy before in andb space I was on, and I understand that argument
, but I’m concerned about the fact we all voted no in a referendum to having an Australia card, and the commmonwealth government is creating a national digital via one by stealth . The other is we do have a national body for councils which we also voted down. The concept of the government handing all our personal information over to the WHO for one world health initiatives - which they have agreed to also bothers me.
Considering the COA is a corporation - Then citizens have to be it's shareholders
How do we / citizens go about collecting dividends?
I’d love to know, but like Medibank the people insured with them were considered to be shareholders. When they were privatised the government were allowing them to buy their own shares as part of the privatisation float. With the debt our governments have run up few of us could afford the shares in that corporation. I think we are incorporated in the US as part of the UN. Just look at the money we throw at these unelected bureaucrats.
“Love” not “live”
This article highlights a point I have made before -
1) Rebekah Barnett is perhaps Australia's best journalist (not currently being locked up and tortured)
2) The voice was resoundingly successful in it's (to me) clear aim of dividing the population, distracting them from the Covid Crimes, along with the usual funnelling-of-resources-semi-legal-corruption of any state action. It is akin to a nationwide discussion on which colour hair looks better while the owner of the hair commits treason, democide, and steals billions.
What disturbs me is this notion of control. It is clear that the ruling class no longer (if they ever did) consider themselves servants of the people. Albo on TV called the referendum a "failure." The only way the referendum could have been a failure is if we achieved no result. The people have spoken but apparently we said the wrong thing.
Good comment.
Imo the only way it would be a 'failure' is if the cheating and fraud was so bad that people had no confidence in the process and outcome.
The newspapers were full of that as well. I said the same thing to my wife, how can it be a failure?
It's a telling attitude.
On kindness... I've only just realised how much we lefty types are used, manipulated and abused on the value of 'kindness'.
The poor young during the pandemic...
"Be kind to the old people and lock down" for a disease would barely impact you (and don't tell the young about the banning of drugs that could obviate any need for pandemic action at all, nor about the financial costs that will burden their lives).
"Be kind to the old people and take this vaccine" that certainly carries more risks than benefits to this cohort, and that didn't stop transmission to the old people.
"Be kind to the Indigenous and vote Yes" to goodness knows what final consequence.
And they're been propagandised through their school life with Climate Change Terror that will facilitate their willingness to lockdown for Climate (as promised by Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton), no doubt into Smart Cities to come. The kids have been given the imperative to advocate for their imprisonment.
I forgot "Be kind to the trans people" (where 'kindness' is defined as quietly accepting and encouraging chemical and surgical mutilation) so we can profit off the surgeries and promote our transhumanist ideology and restructure society against the family
This also tested people’s trust in Government to do the right thing. Why couldn’t we have 60% of population questioning last 3 years?
The ‘virus’ fear has been propagandised over many years via the MSM, Hollywood, Government.
Closer to 4 years now. Makes a good argument for the Swiss referendum system - although to be fair that didn’t stop them from lockdowns etc
When people fear for their lives they are easy to control. I am very worried that the current manufactured 'division' will be used for false flag purposes to 'unify' under new 'emergencies.' Anyone reading the tea leaves can see this.
Not sure about what this division amounts to if 80% of 'Labor seats voted 'no' - according to some academic on abc radio today someone told me.
The 'division' is manufactured by the media only. Let's see if Australians can hold their ground in the face of a new 'emergency.' It will scare the hell out of people into giving up their rights.
It might take a little longer, but people are waking up slowly.
Just because we can use a single phrase "indigenous Australians" to describe a subset of the population doesn't mean that those people think alike or have the same experiences and needs. Firstly, they come from hundreds of language groups and locations thousands of kilometres apart, and so developed largely independent of other groups. All these groups of did, however, have the same general experience of invasion, dispossession, novel diseases, oppression and murder - in some states to the point of few survivors. All can now benefit from Western civilisation and be harmed by its excesses.
Secondly, many are mixed race - with quite a few seeming, to the eye at least, to have primarily non-indigenous ancestry. Thirdly, they live in many places with different degrees of urbanisation. Finally, they are individuals.
Governments can and do consult with indigenous people. It is likely better to do so at a local and individual level, rather than primarily via a peak body with multiple layers of division and competitive, political, argument through which individual experience, knowledge and choices need to fight upwards against groupthink and contrary viewpoints, in order to arrive at the top where they might be heard as part of whatever the Voice would state in public.
In any political system, the noisiest and most motivated people tend to hold sway and suppress the views of those not so ideologically bent. This can lead to remarkable, enlightened, people wisely representing the positions of many of the group's constituents. However, it often rewards bitter, argumentative, people who accentuate differences and generate the controversy which brings them publicity - the oxygen of politics and prominent public discourse.
Look at BLM vs. ordinary African Americans, or the best known feminists vs. women. Look especially at trans activists and their legions of people who think they are trans due to the current social contagion compared to the actual, relatively small, number of real trans people, most of whom want to get on with their lives without oppression, with support and without making a scene about it, or shoving anything down other people's throats. Most women did not rise en-masse to suppress the worst excesses of the most prominent feminists. I guess the same is true in many social movements which have some basis in liberation, but which develop strongly along the lines of accusations of oppression and so cause intense divisions and likely misrepresentations of the people the movements are supposed to liberate.
According to polls, the Voice started with majority approval. I suspect that a major factor in the decline in approval was all the guilting (my spellchecker objects) of the entire public on the national stage, month after month, pushed hard by the ABC, Guardian et al. that this poorly defined constitutional amendment was the only kind, respectable, way to help indigenous people. Some respond positively to this - recent electorate maps indicate they were mainly in dense urban, and so successful middle-class suburbs. Others think it is a mistake to succumb to such emotional and likely unbalanced arguments, which would be to encourage more of the same. This is especially the case since some of the strongest proponents stated that the voice was the first step towards a treaty (not necessarily a bad idea, I think) and reparations, which are extraordinarily divisive.
As the months wore on, I guess more and more people wondered whether they really wanted the constitution to be changed to give a special place in federal parliament for the very same people - and over time, the same intense and often highly aggrieved type of people - to be given a special voice concerning legislation and executive government and perhaps the judiciary.
It is not hard to consult locally, and I guess this is an ongoing process all over the country. Nor is there any problem with one or more national or state based indigenous organisations lobbying and stating whatever they like to the public and different levels of government. Sometimes, the local indigenous people's best advice and pleas are ignored - for instance when women and elders requested indigenous alcohol bans in outback Australia be continued, but left-leaning woke-infested governments decided they couldn't possibly continue such a racist arrangement.
The question was whether we wanted a constitutionally mandated, peak indigenous body, with all its levels of politics, and likely guilt-based political suppression of viewpoints, permanently installed as an adjunct to federal parliament. This would surely result in the parliament itself likely being disinclined to decide anything different from what that body proclaimed was in the interest of all indigenous Australians, for fear of generating more arguments, feelings of rejection and accusations of racism, lack of care etc.
There is one thing governments can and should do for indigenous Australians, without arguments about colonialism, guilt or politics. To the extent that they have darker skin, spend more time indoors or wearing clothing than their ancestors, they are now are at very high risk for having insufficient circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D for their immune systems to work properly. Australians with white skin are already at high risk for this, but in the absence of vitamin D3 supplements in quantities 8 (oops "80" was a typo) or more times those very small amounts recommended by the government (0.015 mg a day - 600 IU - https://www.eatforhealth.gov.au/nutrient-reference-values/nutrients/vitamin-d), indigenous Australians are even more at risk of devastating health problems due to their immune system being unable to work properly. The most pertinent research on vitamin D and the immune system is cited and discussed at: https://vitamindstopscovid.info/00-evi/ .
I agree with pretty much all of that Robin.
Western countries are in one big psyop, Feminism was a Trojan horse, those who wanted to control us fed the belief that liberating women would give them choice- no workplace discrimination if they had a child ( some workplaces wouldn’t hire or allow career continuity if you had a child) you could choose to work have a career or be a stay at home mum). The reality over time is that increased taxes cost of living etc means not many have a choice not to work and pay taxes. That comes to the next psyop - the government gets to raise your child from the cradle, and can brainwash them in climate, sexualise them from age four( in Victoria) and give historical revisionism- all whites bad. When it comes to MSM look at all the reality shows- all based on “feelings” not reality. All to meet WEF and UN agendas. It’s the cultural Marxist doctrine on how to turn “ democratic “ countries into socialist countries- read totalitarian states. The voice was an attempt at racial division like BLM and Albanese is a committed communist - Trotsky I believe, even the Russians didn’t like him.
The 'Yes' campaign was so poorly structured that one wonders whether it was designed to fail......... I have little faith in the honesty of the AEC & was extremely shocked that the referendum failed. One can only conclude that it was never meant to be successful. Did Albo only win office if he promised to hold the referendum? And, now that it has been held & failed, will he disappear into obscurity, having served his purpose?
It was a massive distraction from the Clare O'Neill basket of goodies.
I'll have to go look up Clare O'Neill, I have not come across anything regarding her as yet.
She's the acknowledged WEF "Young Global Leader" ALP minister for doing everything related to digital capture "for climate" and mis/disinformation as well.
Hon Clare O'Neil MP, Member for Hotham
Positions: Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for Cyber Security
Party: Australian Labor Party
And she's on the National Security Committee which "considers the highest-priority, highest risk and most strategic nationals security matters of the day. Decisions of the NSC do not require the endorsement of Cabinet. Decisions with financial implications are endorsed through a joint meeting of the NSC and ERC."
How many people know this group of people wield so much power? How did this happen without our informed consent?
https://www.directory.gov.au/commonwealth-parliament/cabinet/cabinet-committees/national-security-committee
Highest risk? That would be self-employed, heterosexual Christian families, wouldn't it?
Congratulations on a great conservative victory for Australia.
Thanks for another thoughtful and thought provoking piece Rebekah.
Always were, always will be........... distracted. The vote for NO probably would have been higher if the "stick it up your bum sideways" votes had been counted. Great campaign material for any savvy, unemotional, fairdinkum alternative parties out there in our there land, moving forward. What a gift from the navel gazing, lint picking brigade. The only reflection they'll do is looking @ their stupid mugs in the mirror. Great work again Rebekah, I'm surprised they haven't tried to recruit you to their side, so they can shut you down.
Well done what an amazingly well-written piece. Good observation on the Motte and Bailey fallacy. That is exactly what it was. And good quote selection from Jacinta on the instrumentalisation of remote people for the agenda of others. They have had their racial identity dragged through the public square held up to a vote, and are now being told by the ABC among others that the No vote is a setback for them. Just setting them up for a fall and for nothing. No benefit. Could anything be more disgraceful? And the total waste of more than $400 million
I'd like to congratulate Rebekah on holding back from written comment until the vote was largely counted :)
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Vibes
When you get a plant to self seed in your garden you say the plant has become indigenous to that environment.
Using this analogy, everyone with an Australian birth certificate is an indigenous Australian.
there is that guy in Cairns who reckons everyone with an Australian birth certificate is actually a Norfolk Islander.
I am proud of the Australian population. Their motives for voting No may vary greatly but in general it shows that they are no longer the sheeples they were during the last three years. The timing of this referendum was no accident. Our leadership, puppets of the globalists, tried to take away 'the first people's sovereignty' for an easy job of surrendering our country. This has failed.
Spot on,
If feel if we were allowed to vote 3 years ago the plandemic would have failed. I fell for none of it.
Albanese should go for wasting Australian tax payers funds on his ego.