Indigenous voice to parliament: much gusto, no detail

On Q&A whenever Price would seek further information or at the least remark at how unavailable it is, either the conversation would dwindle away to the next topic or she would be met with some rebuttal alleging that she was there pushing an LNP agenda. Such rebuttals were designed to diminish her voice and deflect from the glaringly obvious gaps in the Uluru Statement.

I would say that the entire issue around the Uluru Statement and all that it entails is very much an LNP agenda. After all, it is the LNP who would be launching the referendum. Before that happens the Australian people are going to need much more information to consider and I think that having the Co-Chair to the Joint Select Committee on Q&A being unable to address such concerns in depth, beyond to say something like "it's a collaborative approach" is pretty tardy to say the least.

To take all the recommendations of the Uluru Statement to a referendum is folly as most of them would not achieve a double majority goal post. Now, however, it's all become such a zero-sum political football, egged on by Labor's so-called Leader-in-Waiting, Anthony Albanese. While the LNP isn't too keen - much as I am - about taking all the recommendations of the Uluru Statement to the people at a referendum, even the compromise of recognition in the constitution's preamble will be one Labor will do their darnedest to discredit. So far it's all become less about what we want and more about like what every major issue relating to Indigenous peoples has become: political point-scoring.

While admirable in its ambitions, it is very clear that the iuniform sentiment arising from the Garma Festival, and the recommendations of the Uluru Statement from the Heart at this stage just cannot stand up to scrutiny. It's nowhere near ready to be taken to a national vote. The devil is in the detail and both are resoundingly absent.