'The Voice' may end up uniting us after a

A strong result will tell the government that not only have they misread the electorate, but they have misread their own electors. It should also tell the Opposition the same thing.

This means, in turn, that the culturally Marxist view of the world that this government is promulgating is not one the people who elected them necessarily share.

We should not be surprised. It is yet another demonstration of the axiom that voters choose the least worst alternative, not ideals, and that the support of the electorate for any government is extremely conditional.

This should cause the government to focus on more bread-and-butter issues like cost of living, and suggest to them they should spend less time listening to the Greens and fellow travellers, and more time listening to the Opposition, rather than demonising them as "extremists."

Change in the Aboriginal community is due too

Hopefully, it will also lead to a changing of the guard of Aboriginal leadership.

This referendum, injecting an Aboriginal consultative body into the Constitution, never made any sense as a method of Aboriginal recognition. Recognition and consultation are two entirely different concepts.

The only thing that made sense is that it was an attempt by some Aboriginal leaders to give themselves, or their proteges, a government-funded pulpit that could never be removed.

This was then their path to agitate for Truth-telling, Treaty, and Reparations-a reductionist approach to race relations that is more about money than advancement.

There are histories and libraries full of truth-telling, although there are also some lies, like Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu, and Native Title is a form of treaty.

Reparations never made any sense. Nowhere in the world has such a long period of settlement led to reparations, and no durable settlement is achievable if we are to relitigate the loss of territory going back generations. Where would it stop?

Dispossession has been the way of this continent since the first Aborigines arrived with one group pushing out other groups who have been forced to move on.

Europeans are the first arrivals to do this, and to recognise that conquest is no longer a just way of settling land ownership in the modern world.