It’s no surprise that Anthony Albanese is so reluctant to tell Australians any detail about his “Aboriginal Voice to Parliament”. After all, the more Australians learn, the less they’re inclined to support what is more and more obviously a dangerous, anti-democratic, racially divisive power-grab.
Just in case anyone’s still foolish enough to think otherwise, “Voice” bigwigs are straight-out telling us.
The Indigenous voice “will have a lot of power” and will not passively wait to be consulted, Uluru Dialogue co-chair Megan Davis says.
Which pretty much demolishes all the blithe assurances that the Voice won’t be a de facto third chamber of parliament and won’t have any real power.
In fact, Davis is inadvertently giving the game away by stating unequivocally that the Voice will have a whole lot of power.
“There is a misconception that it will have no power and it will have no influence. I mean we can debate that for ages but of course it will have a lot of power. It will have a lot of power because it’s a constitutional voice that is mandated by the Australian people and that gives it a lot of power,” Professor Davis said.
“The work of the voice is to provide representations to the parliament and the government of the day and currently the (proposed) amendment is that it’s up to the voice to determine what is important to it.
“It will make the representations. So it’s not a consultative body in that it is sitting there waiting passively for the Commonwealth to consult it or bureaucrats to consult it.
And if the Commonwealth and bureaucrats ignore or reject its advice? Are we really supposed to believe that this “powerful” body will do nothing?
There are only two possibilities: its advice can be ignored or rejected — in which case, why does it even exist? Or its advice cannot be ignored or rejected — in which case, how does it not have a power of veto over Parliament?
But we now know that the Voice will “have a lot of power” — and it’ll be near-impossible to get rid of it, if it goes pear-shaped.
She said the strength of the voice was that “it will be locked in and it will be protected”.
“So when governments come and go as they very regularly do … the voice will sit and wait until the election is over and we have a new Prime Minister and we have a new government and a new parliament and what have you. The voice says ‘okay congratulations, glad you’re here. This is where we got to with the last lot and this is where we got to go now’,” she said.
In other words, the Voice supervenes even the elected government of the day.
How is any of this supposed to convince us to vote for this racist dog of a referendum?
If you want to get an idea of what the “Voice” will really be like, just pull up footage of Aboriginal activists attempting to burn down the Museum of Australian democracy. That’s what Albo and his cronies want us to vote for.
