Radical Lefty Senator Lidia Thorpe has got it right on the referendum, vote No. On that we agree. Her reasons are 180 degree different from ours though. She sees the Australian constitution as a “racist” document that harms indigenous people. “The Constitution that was established in this country in 1901 was only established to bring harm to our people.” Wow, it would not be hard to write a document that did that, rather than one primarily about getting the colonies together, and commerce flowing.
But, she is logically consistent. If one believes that the constitution, and indeed the white settlement of Australia is a political sin, as the Uluru Statement in its full uncensored version, not the sanitised one-page version, that trials off incoherently says, then you believe what she says. Then there is no sense in voting Yes, which is just playing along with the white fella. So, I am pleased to see that there is a radical Left critique of the Voice, and hope that it does some damage. It may make a few university types rethink, for what that is worth at this late stage of the game.
