Chris Merritt recently (March 3, 2023) put the case that the Indigenous Voice to parliament referendum has as its philosophical basis the Uluru Statement from the Heart, the link to this text beginning given below. The problem, or one among many, is that the core part of the document, which goes on about the idea of sovereignty as a spiritual notion, is plagiarised, meaning borrowed without acknowledgement of prior authorship from a 1975 ruling of the International Court of Justice that concerned the people of the Western Sahara. The author was Nicolas Bayona-Ba-Meya, from Zaire, whose submission was incorporated in the ruling handed down by judge Fouad Ammoun. Chris Merritt goes into details about this, and I think conclusively proves his case. But, so what, Martin Luther King plagiarised his doctoral dissertation, in large part, and none of the woke bat an eyelid?
I think that while the woke will not care, this is highly politically damaging to the unconverted. It shows that the foundations of the Voice are philosophically flawed, since there is cultural appropriation made from another culture, which is a no-no. Where is the proof then, that what presumably exists for Africans, applies to Australian Aborigines, and if there is proof, why was it not given in the statement? It may just have an impact upon some presently undecided voters. And, it is the sort of journalism that is now need as this referendum is deviously being pushed over the line by Labor and Co.