Human history is made of the stories of conquest stretching back as far as our records go. The proposition made by the woke who walk among us that Non-Indigenous Australians ought to bear the guilt for the injustices, mistakes, atrocities and hatreds of the past was never going to translate into giving a handful of selected corporate cronies the power over their affairs today; and when all was said and done that was the only card Albanese had to play. And Aboriginal Australians spoke up.
‘What these activists do. And what they’ve always done, for decades is, they push intergenerational guilt onto White Australians.
‘They’re doing it in the schools. They get little kindergarten kids to say ‘sorry’. And then stupid Rudd went and did Sorry Day. Everyone had to apologise for something they didn’t do.
‘White people should not be saying sorry to Aboriginal people.’
Kerry White, Port Pirie, South Australia - Nurungga People - Yorke Peninsula.
Now that the referendum we never had to have is behind us this nation must find more than just a trace of what we were back then. We used to be all about a “fair go”, so, what happened? How did we become so divided?
Or is it really a case of who divided us and how does it serve their interests?
If you’d paid attention to the commentary, and perhaps, and maybe, more importantly trusted any of it these days, voting Yes was about a fair go for Aboriginal Australians. And they tried to convince you that, by extension, voting No was a denial of our defining national principle. Thankfully that simplistic, cynical and manipulative position was rejected, and no, it wasn’t because, as the Yes camp might want you to believe, we have no compassion for the plight of Aboriginal Australians or dismiss their right to recognition. No. No. Absolutely not.
It’s because while no decent person rejected the purported aims of The Voice, no thinking person believed for a heartbeat that handing a group of party selected cronies that amount of power would ever lead to any of those aims being realised. And the critical thinkers voted accordingly.
The last few years have woken too many of us up to the perils of concentrating power in the hands of a selected few who are controlled by those that give them comfortable salaries, perks, and status. And we have had enough of being told what to do. We see the game and we’re not interested in playing along anymore.
We understood, very well, that our political parties and judiciary are little more than the legislative arms and enforcers of the corporations and oligarchs that have infected and corrupted them to suit and serve agendas and purposes antithetical to ours. They do little or nothing to balance that power as they are supposed to do.
Robert French (former Chief Justice of The High Court) observed: "The Australian spirit evoked by the 'don't know, vote no' slogan is a poor shadow of the spirit which drew up our Constitution. It invites us to a resentful, uninquiring passivity."
No Robert, sorry. It just simply and succinctly reflects the solid lack of trust that Australians have in those who attempt to dismiss their concerns about constitutional amendments while they attempt to corrupt the document to serve their own purposes. The Constitution and what it represents belongs to all of us, not just the seven of you who sit in robes on High Court benches. And it is well past time we reclaimed the promises and guarantees it contains.
It’s anyone’s guess why after winning the 2022 election with less than a third (32.58%) of the primary vote Albanese believed that a majority of people in the majority of states would vote to give away their own rights, freedom and sovereignty. The referendum is over (so is Albo btw) but as many of us understand the division it created is not; and it must be addressed because there is real work to do.
The rejection of The Voice is a strong, encouraging, and positive signal for all Australians. Particularly those of Aboriginal descent because it is a rejection of centralised control. It’s now incumbent on all of us to demand a proper audit and accounting of where the funds committed by all Australian taxpayers for their benefit has been wasted and what needs to be done now to better to achieve the aims it was intended to meet.
Australians have and continue to fund agencies supporting and working toward correcting those wrongs.
· Productivity Commission report: ‘Total direct expenditure on services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians in 2016-17 was estimated to be $33.4 billion.
· Per head of population this equated to $44 886 compared to $22 356 for non-indigenous Australians, less than half.
We’re now also painfully aware of just how little must have been achieved because every Vote Yes advertisement told us so. That despite spending double on solving the issues related to Indigenous peoples’ reduced life spans, higher infant mortality, extraordinary rates of domestic violence, etc they persist and could only be solved by Albo’s Magic Voice.
But we already knew that there are 11 indigenous Australians in the current parliament and five rejected Albo’s plan. Meaning almost half the current indigenous representatives in the parliament (those understanding intimately how government really works) knew that Albo’s Magic Voice would never be the voice of ordinary Aboriginal Australians.
The rest of us understood very well though that it would be a great, once in a generation, opportunity for whoever sponsored the members of that committee to obtain and exert their influence over the deliberations and submissions they made; in much the same way that they manipulate two-party politics today. And it would be a whole lot simpler, and cheaper, than funding two whole political parties now, wouldn’t it?
So, it became crystal to anyone that understands politics today that The Voice would rapidly become no more or less than a cynically sponsored committee whereby all aboriginal issues would be centralised and controlled to suit the interests of corporate Australia.
Qantas donated millions and painted YES on some planes. (Albo said No to Qatar Airways but there’s nothing to see here folks. Honestly)
BHP, Rio Tinto, and Wesfarmers dug shallow and ran a sausage sizzle or two for a couple of million each.
Coles and Woollies gave up a some of what they saved by getting you to use the self-checkout.
The Big four banks stumped up some of the interest they stole from you too.
I’ll leave it to you to DuckDuckGo how many others in the top 20 on the ASX figured it was good for their ROI somehow. Good luck explaining that at the next AGM.
Here’s Warren Mundine on corporate fiscal responsibility;
“The issues we have got to take from this campaign – the corporations have got to seriously look at themselves,” Mr Mundine told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “Really seriously look at themselves and what they’re trying to do and how they’re trying to influence people’s lives.
“Why don’t you actually get back and do what your shareholders want you to do which is to go out there, run a business. “I think there’s going to be a lot of questions raised at some of these AGM’s and I think these managing directors and CEOs and chairman of boards and directors need to have a serious look in the mirror Sunday morning.”
But truth be told I don't think Albanese is smart enough to understand any of this, he’s just the ALP’s 2023 "useful idiot", (a person propagandising for a cause originating from a devious ruthless source). Surely not? Not those corporations funding and promoting the idea he was fed to lisp into a microphone without fully comprehending the agenda behind it? For all his flaws Albo presents as a “nice guy”, he was, perhaps, just what the country needed after the narcissism of Morrison. Unfortunately, Albo was also the perfect dupe for those who stop at nothing when money, power and status are on the line.
But it’s also important to recognise that all this happened at the same time as our cost of living is going through the roof because of the effects of what other useful idiots like Whitlam, Hawke, Keating, Howard, Abbott and Costello delivered to us over the last 40 or 50 years. Since the early 1980’s Australian’s have lost our banks, our airlines, our power generation, our insurers, railways, car manufacturers, and roads and other infrastructure because the useful idiots we elected fell for the corporate line and sold it all to them. Then they turned us into the worlds coal mine and iron ore quarry. A fact made doubly ironic when those same corporations are now insisting that we shut those coalmines down because they're killing the climate.
So, yes, every Australian deserves to know why Albo committed so much taxpayer's money to an idea that was always going to fail. Does anyone know how much Farnsie got paid for the song with the line, “You’re the voice, try and understand it”. Seriously you could not make this shit up.
Why Albo, why?
It is for Albo to explain how after gaining, possibly the lowest ever primary vote to win an election, (Jamie look that up please), he believed that those same 32.58% of voters would magically multiply into “A majority of people in a majority of states” that he needed to let him vandalise the nations fundamental legal document. The US has Biden, and we’re stuck with Albanese. But if Biden is clearly compromised by the mental decline of advancing age (or maybe he’s just setting himself up to plausibly answer questions at his impeachment with that same blank stare and unintelligible gibberish) I'm yet to hear what Albanese's excuse is. That is beyond simply being a “post turtle” produced by a selection process that places servitude ahead of leadership, performance, or ability. Regardless, his stupidity has left the country badly divided. So much for “the vibe”.
In the interest of providing some balance here, I’ll concede that poor Albo has been surrounded by the kind of people who would vote for him for a long time, i.e., idiots, wokewits, and the kind of bleeding hearts that would be stupid enough to believe that 96.2% of us would willingly hand over potential control of the parliament to a committee of? … Well, we still don’t know what it was going to be. Maybe the Uluru Statement from the Heart contains some detail on what the committee would look like? Because you’d reasonably assume that its most powerful and vocal proponent would have intimate knowledge and some keen insights into the document he drew his inspiration from.
The Uluru Statement from the Heart.
Anthony Albanese: [People] know the Uluru Statement from the Heart is one page. Is one page – not hundreds of pages.
Neil Mitchell: But what are the other 25 pages? And I’ve read them, what are they?
AA: What they are, is, a record of meetings, some of them. They’re records of the big lead-up that happened, in the lead-up to, ironically, the lead-up to the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
NM: Do you agree with most of what is said in those 25 pages?
AA: I haven’t read it.
NM: You haven’t read it?
Albo: There’s 120 pages. Why would I? I know what the conclusion is. The Uluru Statement from the Heart is one page. That’s the conclusion.
Professor Dr Megan Davis, “It is untrue that any model would satisfy the Uluru Statement. The Uluru Statement is more than one page. Astonishing.”
It’s one thing to have not read it, quite another to admit that without any awareness of how stupid such an admission would confirm you to be. Astonishing indeed. But at least we were all clear now on why the Uluru Statement can be given lengths of one, eighteen or twenty-six pages.
It can simply refer to the one-page “invitation to the Australian people”.
It can refer to the eighteen pages contained in the Final Report.
Or as confirmed by the NIAA, the twenty-six pages of Document 14 are the “Uluru Statement from the Heart – Long”. (eight pages contain flow charts, tables, and an outline of the process going forward).
The No campaigns’ most convincing spokespeople.
Now, if that weren’t enough to sink Albo’s paperbark canoe, Mayo came along; like his namesake he went rotten fast once the lid was off the jar. Mayo’s Twitter feed came back to haunt him, and he may go down in history as the scorer of the greatest own goal ever. Among Mayo’s greatest hits in articulating a vision for a Voice to Parliament (directly contradicting Albanese's 'modest' concessions) where these gems;
“All the things we imagine when we demand a Voice, including reparations, land back, abolishing harmful colonial institutions”.
Mayo also proposed “getting ALL our kids out of prisons & in to care... integration of our laws & lore, speaking language, wages back”. (Whatever that means?)
Mayo ensured anyone that would listen that the Voice was the first step to a “guaranteed representative body'” [that would] “properly pursue the rent that is owed and an abolishment of systems that harm us'.
Mayo declared that quoting his own words was “disappointing” and “The No campaign wants to cause confusion and whip up fear among people”. How so, by using his very own statements? I’ll let you figure that one out. Mayo’s efforts were hard to top until the Yes campaign’s Marcia Langton rose to the occasion and declared that anyone voting No was either “racist or stupid.” Ray Martin couldn’t resist the temptation to be relevant for five minutes, told Marcia to hold his beer, and declared that anyone thinking critically about this to be either a “dinosaur or a dickhead”. Cheers, they might as well have just called us deplorables.
Albo’s days are now numbered, but that’s not the best bit, because if I’m reading the vibe (sorry) this referendum may very well prove to be the best thing that ever happened to us; black, white and the rainbow in between. It’s becoming obvious to those to whom it wasn’t already that the referendum we never needed to have was thrown at us during a time when the public had lost all faith or trust in government. The stench of the Covid debacle was still strong in a lot of nostrils, and that’s before we even mention the ongoing health concerns being felt and understood by those who fell for ”safe and effective” from the same players in ‘21 and ‘22.
The less than a third of us that voted for Albanese (and the moribund lot that chose him as the best among them) in 2022 are likely to be the same people that willingly became lab rats for pharma the year before. The rest who complied had to maintain luxuries like a roof over their heads or choosing not to let their children starve after their government made clear who they worked for now. It was that “rest” that were having absolutely nothing to do with anymore “trust the government” bullshit this time around. Particularly when they couldn’t be forced into compliance with guilt trips and promises of opportunities to virtue signal their wokeness with a face nappy. And let’s face it, it would have looked silly to write “Say Yes To The Voice” on a face-rag through which no one could understand what you were saying now wouldn’t it?
So, what now?
If we're lucky Plibersek will take his place, she is, after all, the natural choice for the 21st century ALP. Not because she represents competence; she so clearly does not but woke and ideologically programmed she undoubtedly is. Not to mention paid well above her ability and enjoying the perks and status of parliamentary office; exactly where the sponsors want her. She can be counted on to say the right things. Plibersek is the party's future, no doubt, to realise its full potential and get on with immolating itself out of existence.
But while that distraction is happening in Canberra the rest of us must now focus on the lessons learnt from this episode and start thinking ahead to the election to be held 2025. Critical Thinking and Awake Australians need to come together and engage in a very, very thorough investigation into the corporate corruption at the heart of our government that led us to have this referendum in the first place and spend hundreds of millions of dollars doing so.
What was the impact of that spend?
How many people where persuaded to vote yes because Farnsie told them to?
How many who were initially opposed changed their mind?
How many where firmly opposed and did not?
It's important to know because clearly the argument did not prevail. And when all is said and done that leaves only two facts;
The advertising was a complete waste of money.
It was paid for by the same majority that rejected the message.
And we must get on to dealing with the most important things the referendum we never had to have exposed;
The deep divisions in our society
Proper auditing, accountability, and results for the thirty-three billion dollars that is spent each year; that apparently achieves very little.
The rank corporate influence infesting and corrupting our politics.
Restoration of good faith and trust of Government.
Warren Mundine – Sydney Morning Herald October 14th 2023
“This is the referendum we did not have to have”.
“Regardless of the result, all sides of this referendum debate must come together on Sunday to harness this goodwill, enthusiasm and momentum for change. We need a new plan based on four priorities; accountability, education, economic participation, and social change”.
The No vote has conclusively proven to have been the right one for all Australians. Obviously, it represents the majority, but contrary to the hideous, racist rhetoric served up by the Yes campaign, No voters were not rejecting the need to solve the issues facing Aboriginal people. Quite the contrary. They just rejected the simplistic nonsense that a selected group of party cronies could ever serve as the voice for all of them.
And it’s time to demand the audits and accountability for where all the money has been going. It’s time we all understood how much of what floods into that trough ever reaches the places we expect it to. The streets, such as they are, of Roebourne, Halls Creek, Kununurra, Alice Springs and countless others tell the story every night.
And I’m sure almost none of us know where Punmu is.
“In the Punmu community near Marble Bar, $22m is spent every year, if you saw that place, the poverty, the sickness, the despair it would make you sick. Where the fuck is that $22m going? There’s about 50 adults there, and a bunch of kids who have no future. The education in this community lacks and is approached in the wrong way, these kids will not sit in a classroom all day, and so are bribed to stay there. They prefer to be out and about learning. The elders play a role in this, but they are dying far too young. I hear from other places that when the elders are strong and healthy it makes all the difference to the kids. It’s a broken system, and that’s the intention, they want these people off the land of course, and all they represent. Nothing’s changed, they’re just killing them off in different ways. That $22m can’t be seen in the lives of the people living there. It is being skimmed along the way, pocketed, grifted and plain old stolen. Nothing goes to these people. Even their Centrelink payments are taken from them by the government store that sells them “food” that is not in any way supportive of their health. It’s all ludicrously priced processed shit, probably supplied by some government sponsor getting its ROI on its donations to the party. The locals spend all their money on shit like a McCains pizza that will cost them $20 for what you and I can buy at Woolies for around $6. And we wonder why their health is failing. Whose voice needs to be heard in order for them to get real food? These people have no voice at all, and little future, they are entirely dependent on the government.
