Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Jan 30
th, 2023 at 1:19pm:
Anyway - now they want to 'recognise migrants'... say what?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/29/voice-to-parliament-no-ca..."The no campaign in this year’s voice referendum will propose a symbolic constitutional recognition of both Indigenous people and migrants, instead of an Indigenous voice to parliament, Warren Mundine has revealed.
Mundine, a leading organiser of the no campaign, said it will run on a slogan of “recognise a better way”, proposing to insert an acknowledgment in the preamble of the constitution, via another referendum.
This approach was previously rejected by multiple rounds of consultation including the 2017 Uluru statement from the heart, which called for a voice to parliament.
With the yes campaign due to launch with a week of grassroots action from 20 February, the no campaign is gaining support from rightwing organisations Advance Australia and the Conservative Political Action Conference Australia for a campaign to launch in late February or early March.
On Sunday Mundine said he was bringing together opposition groups as head of Recognise a Better Way and the president of the Voice No Committee, of which former deputy prime minister John Anderson is also a member.
Mundine, a Yuin, Bundjalung and Gumbaynggirr man, was the national Labor president but quit the party in 2012, contesting the seat of Gilmore in 2019 for the Liberals.
In a sign the campaign will aim to pit culturally and linguistically diverse voters against the voice, Mundine said “we’re talking with the migrant community as well”.
“It’s about recognition of all the people who have come to Australia, who have been here first and how we built this great country of ours.”
Asked if this would include recognition of migrants in the constitution, Mundine said “migrants and refugees who have come here – recognise their story, about the circumstances of how they’ve come here and their contribution to Australia”.
“People have escaped from some horrific situations overseas, come to Australia and built an incredible life for themselves and their families.”This raises questions of its own - such as how far back do we go.... essentially since 1788 we're all migrants.... including every drop of non-Abo blood in our homegrown Sallows ... so what is the point. I understand the desire to capture the migrant vote by giving them some sort of recognition... but is that what this should be about?
Everyone is recognised in the constitution already.... Mundine is struggling for relevance.
I was initially opposed to 'the Voice' but I am now in favour. I was pushed over the line by the likes of Mundine, the Nats, that dumb fuqqing half Abo tattooed wanker Senator Thorpe et al, and Dutton playing dumb (pretty easy for him I know.)
"But Aussie, they already have 11 voices in Parliament."
Sure, but those 11 are not there to represent Aboriginals specifically.
So...given this is just a token (as in, 'please at least put it in the Constitution that you will talk to us') but fact of the matter is....they can be totally ignored if that is what is wanted.
"But what about the Wogs, the Chinks etc etc."
Well, bugger them....they did not have this land taken from them like we took this land from the aboriginals.
We won they lost...but...do we have any 'charity' enough to at least acknowledge that in the Constitution?
I reckon so.
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