Linus wrote on Aug 5
th, 2023 at 12:16am:
The Indigenous Voice seeks to address the historical marginalization and exclusion of Indigenous Australians from decision-making processes in their own country. It is an attempt to recognize and remedy the unique and ongoing impacts of colonization and dispossession on Indigenous communities, which have experienced severe and long-standing injustices.
This is a lie.
Aborigines are not marginalised nor excluded from anything. They fully participate in the national life as equal citizens.
40% of the Australian population was born overseas or has at least one parent born overseas. So almost half the current population has absolutely nothing to do with any 'historical' events in Australia. Needless to say, none of the rest of the Australian population is guilty of any of those 'historical'grievances.
Aborigines are not the only people who were discriminated against in the past.
Today they have every opportunity open to them, with more additional encouragement and assistance than any other group.
Quote:The proposal for the Indigenous Voice is not about granting a "special status" to Indigenous Australians above all other ethnic communities. Instead, it is about providing a constitutionally enshrined mechanism for Indigenous Australians to have a say in matters that directly affect them, acknowledging their distinct position as the First Nations of Australia.
It's consistent with multiculturalism and it's making things fairer.
Aborigines have more-than proportional representation in Parliament and in government decision making at every level.
Adding another constitutionally entrenched Aboriginal body separates Aborigines from everyone else forever and gives them an additional say in everything BASED ON THAT ARTIFICIAL SEPARATENESS.
They have no 'distinct position' in today's society.
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