Stan the Tan Spills the Beans

Like all politicians and similar hucksters, the truth comes out, not during the campaign or the hard sell, but once the vote is in and the deal is done. Politicians and used-car salesmen will grease you with all manner of snake oil: it’s only when they’ve got your vote or your money that you find out what they’re really selling.

During the “Voice” referendum campaign, the mantra from the Yes camp was that it was a “modest” request. Those were PM Anthony Albanese’s very words, repeated ad nauseum: “modest change”, “modest advisory body”.

Only, now that the campaign’s done and the referendum lost, they’re admitting what they were really selling.

And “modest” was all a big, fat lie.

Journalist Stan Grant has ­rebutted the suggestion by Yes campaigners the Indigenous voice to parliament was a ­“modest” ask, declaring it was ­actually “monumental” as he blasted the No vote at the ­referendum.

And that was about the last honest, or indeed intelligible statement in his entire speech.

The rest is a purple mash of flowery gibberish and nonsensical whining.

“The Constitution is not our problem. Our conscience is our problem.

“The Constitution does its job. It is an invisible hand and that’s how Australians like it.

“A nation is not written in a Constitution, it is written in the heart. And our Constitution was not big enough for our call from the heart.”

What the hell is this silly old ex-tabloid hack babbling about?

Tellingly, a commenter on The Australian’s website exhibited the perspicacity and brevity that this taxpayer-funded midwit only wishes he had.

“The Australian Constitution is a rule book, not a hymn book.”

If only Stan the Tan could summon that sort of plain-speaking insight. Instead, we get more empty speechifyin’ like this garbage:

“This is the Australia I bequeath to my children. Like all orphans they will have their memories and however pained they may be, they can never be reconciled. My dead: black and white – my ancestors – lie restless in this land.

“We have laid the sod over them, sealed them in. I thought in me they may be able to speak, that those two sides of me might find a common voice.”

If they’re “speaking in you”, Stan, you might want to deliver them the classic Australian admonishment: “Shut yer arse and give your mouth a go”.

Instead, apparently determined to keep honking his arse at full volume, Grant bizarrely compares a democratic, peaceful vote to Auschwitz — because apparently voting down a racist Constitutional measure is just like gassing and burning millions of Jews — before dropping this delightful bit of racist invective against his own ancestors.

Grant said he felt closer to his black grandfather than his white grandmother on October 14.

The Australian

And I’m sure his white grandmother would be disappointed at what a pathetic, bitter, vindictive race-baiter her orange grandson turned out to be.

Truly, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price accurately describes Grant and his fellow Aboriginal Industry troughers as “pathetic, cynical and cowardly”.