SadKangaroo wrote on Mar 20
th, 2023 at 10:27am:
Frank wrote on Mar 18
th, 2023 at 12:26pm:
SadKangaroo wrote on Mar 18
th, 2023 at 10:58am:
As it stands I would vote no, but that may change once more details come out.
On the basis of available info, what makes you vote NO ?
What additional detail would change your vote to YES?
Constitutional change is a big deal.
It can have wide-ranging impacts if not done properly and left open to interpretation by the courts.
The notion of constitutional recognition and the voice to parliament is something I support, but if it can't be implemented properly I can't vote Yes.
As it stands today we don't have enough detail to support a yes vote in a referendum on constitutional change, but I support the ideas behind it.
Once that detail has been released and smarter people than I who understand the law better can provide some analysis, then a yes or no stance can be considered.
Right now it's a no by default, but I would like to be able to change that to a Yes.
I don't know why it's so difficult for people to justify their current stance, especially without having to resort to misinformation, lies, distractions, and flat-out calls for genocide, which before I took a break from these brown walls was the norm for the No folk.
I was wondering if that's changed, is there any considered stances against, or is it just more of the same?
Given the reaction, it seems more of the same. 78 pages of that is a lot, and for my own mental health, I don't really want to subject myself to what is mostly to be a lot of toxic rhetoric that's become the norm in the No camp.
Hence why I was asking, other than fear and racially motivated misinformation or prejudice, has there been any growth in the reasoning why those against the Voice would not support it?
This apparently is too much to ask...
That question was sort of raised in the video Frank put up... the NOTION of constitutional recognition in isolation should perhaps be asked first - with precise details of what that recognition actually means - but that is not in itself part of any concept of a separate Voice to Parliament.
That is very muddled thinking from those who spent so much wasted time trying to put together this crazy idea, since the two are completely separate, and the instant any reasonable person sees 'Recognition and a Voice' their ears perk up in suspicion - I know mine do.
If you add in the equally crazy idea that the Australian taxpayer should fund an unspecified number of local Aboriginal council voice groups, then an unspecified number of regional ones, then an over-arching Federal one - the clear presentation is of one massive and costly bureaucracy that offers handsome payment to members of one small group, while nobody yet knows how those will even be elected or appointed - but clearly there are those with their eye on those positions of free money.
If the Muslim community, for instance, demanded the same thing, or the mining industry, or even the (heaven forbid) majority White Australians - what would be your response, is my simple question.... I know what mine would be..... the exact same in every scenario - NO - and purely on the grounds that NO preference, under our form of democratic government ruled by OUR law, can even begin to be given to ANY group, and their possession or lack of poverty has nothing to do with it.
Even if they were the richest group in this land I would still vote NO!! Capisce??? If you don't, I cannot help you. Make that ESPECIALLY if they were the richest group in this land because to do so would be to introduce tyranny and despotism and feudal overlordship to this nation.
All those 'problems' that people keep throwing up as needing resolution will NOT be resolved by any such absurd and over-bloated and costly bureaucracy that IS undermining our democracy and entire way of life - the causes are manifold and none is as simple as just giving them a HEAD (Hand 'Em A Duty) job.