The Voice: the search for equity

In summary, The Voice proposal is flawed.

1.      It is racist.

No society can survive amicably with laws based on race.

2.      It does not meet its primary objective.

It will never close the gap.

It will entrench a permanent underclass of embittered, welfare-dependent indigenous citizens forever.

3.      It is divisive.

There will be resentment by those who see others they consider to be less deserving than themselves being given preferential treatment.

There will be a continuing campaign by an urbanised indigenous elite for sovereignty – for power sharing, and to gain reparations for perceived injustices.

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price summed up her concerns succinctly:

“The globally unprecedented Voice proposal, to which the Uluru Statement gave rise, will divide Australia along racial lines, entrench indigenous separatism, and constitutionally enshrine the idea that Aboriginal people are perpetual victims forever in need of special measures.”