After the Voice; The World is Not Enough By James Reed

PM Albo, who sees the Voice as the defining moment of his prime ministership, I would guess, is playing it cool on the issue of a treaty. But, as noted by Nick Cater, “The Vision of the Anointed,” Quadrant Special Digital Edition, August 2023, the treaty will be just the start. There is in fact no limit to the demands that will be made, for the world is not enough Orbis non sufficit:

https://quadrant.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Quadrant-202308-Aug-Online-PEindex-4-1.pdf  

“The Voice is a mere staging post on the road to healing outlined in the Uluru Statement from the Heart, a 2017 petition  by  Aboriginal  and  Torres Strait Islander  leaders to the  Australian government calling for separate sovereignty and reforms to address structural “powerlessness”. It has risen to the status of a sacred document among Voice supporters, and its proposals have been accepted in full by Albanese. The petition describes the Voice as the first step towards a truth commission and a Makarrata agreement or treaty. Some indigenous activists would go further and are not afraid to say so. Thomas Mayo, a prominent Yes campaigner, says the Voice will be a vehicle to force non-indigenous Australians to “pay the rent” for living on stolen land. In a series of 2020 tweets, Mayo claimed the “Blak [sic] rep body” would have the resources to demand “reparations, land back, abolishing harmful colonial institutions, getting ALL our kids out of prisons & in to care, respect & integration of our laws & lore, speaking language, wages back— all the things we imagine”. Mayo’s social media posts, and similar intemperate remarks by pro-Voice supporters, have formed the No campaign’s advertising script.”

The Australian public needs to know that they are voting on an issue, that could lead to their dispossession.