> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://goodoil.news/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Albo Dodges Straight Talk on Treaty - URL: https://goodoil.news/albo-dodges-straight-talk-on-treaty/ - Published: 2023-08-03T04:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2023-08-02T08:02:11.000Z - Author: Cam Slater - Tags: AUS Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:22 As Midnight Oil’s **Peter Garrett** so woefully demonstrated, it’s one thing to shout right-on slogans in catchy pop songs, quite another to deliver effective policy-making in the real world. The same could be said for Yothu Yindi’s 1991 hit, *Treaty*. Infectious dance-floor fodder, certainly. But as a recipe for real-world policy-making? Completely ludicrous. The very idea of a nation-state signing a treaty with its own citizens is completely, utterly, legally bizarre. Treaties are by definition signed between a nation and foreign states. So it comes down to the question of whether Aborigines are even really Australians or not. Anyone who supports a Treaty is tacitly stating that they are not. When it comes to ludicrous policy-making, though, not even pop stars can match up to desperate wannabe, **Anthony Albanese**, and his government. > Opposition Leader **Peter Dutton** has described a radio interview with Anthony Albanese as a “train wreck”, accusing the Prime Minister of refusing to answer questions on Labor’s plan for a treaty. > > “In a train wreck Radio National interview this morning, he was asked seven times whether he supported treaty and seven times refused to give a direct answer,” Mr Dutton said. > > “When will we hear a straight word from this Prime Minister?”. Well, we need only compare election-campaign-Albo with PM-Albo. Through the election campaign, Albanese promised more than 90 times to cut Australians’ electricity bills in half. Instead, they’ve doubled. On the other hand, Albanese never *once* mentioned an Indigenous Voice referendum — yet, the very day after the election, he declared it his number one priority. Not electricity bills, not mortgages, not cost of living. He never once mentioned a “treaty”, either. Yet, here we are. And his government *still* won’t come clean with Australian voters. > Indigenous Australians Minister **Linda Burney** says Australians will not hear new details of the Makarrata Project until after the referendum for an Indigenous voice to parliament has been held. > > “The government of this country supports the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and the Uluru Statement has three elements,” Mr Burney said during question time. > > “The first request is for a voice to parliament which is what the referendum will be about this year. It then refers to a makarrata for truth telling and agreement making.” > > [The Australian](https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politicsnow-labor-in-secret-aboutface-on-medical-funding/live-coverage/6574e377f00d6178a64f2bf344c57172?ref=goodoil.news) Burney is trying to pull a typically shoddy fast one, here. “Agreement making” is merely a euphemism for “Treaty” — which is what the Statement demands. With the government dodging, weaving and lying through their teeth like this, no wonder Australians are deserting the referendum in droves. > With support for the voice trending down, Albanese does not want his constitutionally enshrined voice to parliament to become entwined in the public mind with a complex process of agreement making between governments and Indigenous Australians over the legacy of European settlement. > > This became obvious this morning when Albanese was unable to answer a very simple question on ABC radio – did he support a treaty? > > [The Australian](https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/why-anthony-albanese-can-no-longer-say-he-supports-a-treaty/news-story/6b59d5259b990d6eac0e0f81aa35769f?ref=goodoil.news) If the PM won’t tell the truth, voters only need to look at what his own party is demanding behind closed doors. > *The Australian* can reveal Labor’s latest national platform draft, which will be taken to the party’s conference later this month, states: “Labor supports all elements of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, including a constitutionally enshrined voice to parliament, a Makarrata commission for agreement-making and a national process of truth-telling.” > > [The Australian](https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/labors-national-platform-reveals-treaty-to-be-pursued-this-term-of-government/news-story/58071870c459b30fe30ebd8c3d3eec1b?ref=goodoil.news) Which is pretty rich, considering they haven’t told Australians the truth once, yet. [If You Like What You Just Read,Click Here to Become a Member and Directly Support This Author.](https://thebfd.co.nz/subscription-plans/?ref=104) [If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.](#)