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50 reasons to vote NO. Courtesy of Quadrant online:

1/ Because you still can

2/ Because you’re sick and tired of woke

3/ Because BHP shouldn’t have opinion on anything except digging stuff out of holes

4/ Because Wesfarmers has no business giving $2 million of shareholder cash to the Yes camp

5/ Because every Yes-backing sporting code in the country has been bought with grants and handouts

6/ Because Albanese & Co can’t or won’t explain what they have in mind.

7/ Because you don’t approve of Melbourne being renamed Narrm

8/ Because, sooner or later, the High Court will get involved

9/ Because the High Court has been known to indulge in judicial ratbaggery

10/ Because Australians need their very own ‘Bud Lite moment‘

11/ Because the National Press Club tells us we should

12/ Because the ABC and Nine newsrooms will be awash with tears if Yes loses

13/ Because a No victory will prompt the gnashing of teeth and rending of garments at The Guardian

14/ Because you’re sick and tired of being called a racist

15/ Because Dan Andrews wants it and so does Victoria’s empty-suit opposition leader

16/ Because you’ve never given an Aborigine infected blankets

17/ Because you’ve never distributed poison flour

18/ Because the Massacre Map isn’t history, it’s elements of truth larded with a lot of agit-prop

19/ Because you’ve been silent about too much for too long

20/ Because you don’t need welcoming to your own country

21/ Because, if you’re a New Australian or recently descended from such, what harm did your ancestors ever do an Aborigine?

22/ Because Bruce Pascoe

23/ Because it was fun to hear Linda Burney’s slurred mispronunciation of ‘Aborishnial’, but the novelty has worn off

24/ Because a No victory will do serious harm to Anthony Albanese’s leadership

25/ Because Anthony Albanese will have a target on his back

26/ Because few things are quite so amusing as watching comrades counting numbers, sharpening knives and lopping heads

27/ Because a No win will make Marcia Langton more irate than usual

28/ Because, unlike gender fluidity and other noxiously fashionable memes, the Voice is the one woke narrative you can stomp

29/ Because your blue-haired niece caused a scene at the last Christmas dinner

30/ Because, if you have no black blood whatsoever, you’ll have only slightly less than some Voice campaigners

31/ Because, as Salvatore Babones notes, at this rate we’ll all be Aborigines by 2080

32/ Because scholarly, accurate but unsettling accounts of Aboriginal life and customs are being removed from library shelves

33/ Because we shouldn’t be having this referendum in the first place and, Yes or No, race relations and resentments will be worse in its wake

34/ Because Noel Pearson’s constant insults deserve a ballot-box rebuke

35/ Because Noel Pearson is always ready for his closeup

36/ Because a Voice won’t stop what’s happening every night in Alice Springs

37/ Because Aborigines don’t trace the bulk of their lineage to Malaysia, the Philippines, Nuie, Vanuatu and Singapore

38/ Because you’re weary of being told how to think

39/ Because your kids are being taught what to think

40/ Because Pat Dodson refuses to remove his hat in the Senate

41/ Because bar associations, undoubtedly aware of the potential for lucrative litigation, are backing Yes

42/ Because the voting booth makes you immune to doxing, cancelling and workplace retribution

43/ Because of the newly legislated shakedowns by WA’s ‘indigenous cultural consultants’

44/ Because you’ve endured enough politically correct lectures from self-righteous dills to last a lifetime

45/ Because a clan pursuing a subsistence existence is not and never was ‘a nation’

46/ Because ‘a story the aunties told me’ isn’t reliable primary-source material

47/ Because you’re unfashionably normal

48/ Because normies are no longer found in newsrooms, on government benches, in academia or amongst senior public servants

49/ Because you remember the waste and disgrace that was ATSIC

50/ Because those vending lies know you recognise them as lies but insist you become complicit in their charades and falsehoods

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Duncan A Turner's avatar

The Trojan Horse argument is the strongest for me. After reading about the incredible damage so called "co-governance" has done to New Zealand, it seems to me the whole Voice proposal is geared from globalist sources to inflict similar damage on Australia.

Yes there are problems, many long-standing, but this is the exact opposite of anything remotely like a solution.

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