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The Voice will sink Australia to be ruled by two powers: the Voice and the Commonwealth

By Dinesh Malhotra - posted Monday, 18 September 2023


Simply to say the Parliament shall have power to make laws with respect to matters relating to the Voice, including its composition, functions, powers and procedures – is absolutely not the same thing.

That in the worst-case scenario can be seen as deliberately misleading.

It is quite foolhardy to think we will have no problems.

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It is not inconceivable that, if the Yes camp is successful, the Voice would want to aggressively push on with its agenda, which includes Indigenous Australians calling for self-determination, self -governance, establishment of their traditional Indigenous justice systems and agreement-making about traditional ownerships of lands and waters moving to reparations and compensations.

A legitimate question is "Will the Voice, a constitutional body as it would be then, not have the power to propose radical changes to the Native Titles Act 1993?

How will that not lead to constitutional and legal crises in Australia?

I would say if we do not have those crises, we will have two ‘Australias’ in one nation – one for the Indigenous people and one for the rest of us.

And that division will be permanent.

On a serious yet lighter note, our Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, runs the real risk of being called Australia’s Mikhail Gorbachev who, just to be woke, divided Australia for good.

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Dinesh Malhotra is the contributing editor of Bharat Times, an Indian community publication based in Melbourne since 1997.

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