Dr David Barton: The Voice Referendum is about Power By James Reed

Most calls for Aboriginal self-determination, if not a return to tribal law and life, are made by Left-wing white fella academics and card-carrying communists, something noted early in the debate by Geoff McDonald in Red Over Black (1982), but a point made more recently by Dr David Barton regarding the Voice Referendum. Dr Barton notes that this past life has now gone as completely as say medieval life has gone for Europeans, to be replaced by a woke social construction, devised by the New Class intellectuals:

https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/12/always-was-always-will-be-about-power/

“Meanwhile, the Aboriginal Industry is chock full of ill-informed urban myth-makers and illusionists, this caste of urgers and deluded pretenders giving rise to the patronising insistence on the uniqueness of ‘Aboriginal knowledge’ about everything from agriculture and fish farms (a lá Bruce Pascoe), water and fire management (a lá ‘cultural burning’) to Aboriginal ‘art’, ‘fashion’ and even ‘astronomy’, and not to mention Ernie Dingo and Richard Walley’s thoroughly overdone ‘Welcome to Country”. This is mostly snake oil fakery, an effort to convince contemporary Australians that the Aborigines of old were something they clearly were not. Worse, histories and observational accounts of early Aboriginal life and culture are vanishing from library shelves, replaced by the anti-white post-modern dogma of ‘invasion, colonisation and inter-generational trauma’. It is unusual today to find any history book about Aborigines in a secondary or tertiary institution that is more than fifteen years old. This is cultural censure and erasure happening right under our noses. We are all the poorer for it, black and white alike.

Meanwhile, the recent invention, exaggeration, distortion and misrepresentation of the alleged  ‘frontier wars’ serves as a made-to-order replacement ‘history’ intended to raise the status of Aboriginal people and degrade that of settlers. It is yet another bill of goods, a distorting sham, being hawked by a power-grabbing activist elite  in whose interest it is to falsify and distort our history. The goal, need it be said, is an attempt to paint a genocidal racism as Australia’s original sin.”

So, in a postmodern Australia, where we are all de-cultured in favour of global corporate capitalism, what purpose does the Voice Referendum serve? To provide vast controlling power to the elites who have manipulated the Aboriginal movement from the beginning, as was done by elites in the parallel situation in the US:

“Self-determination is not about ‘closing the gap’, nor Aborigines ‘having a voice’ — all of that can be achieved without a change to the Constitution. Indeed, the $35+ billion currently spent on Aboriginal affairs and the 11-plus current Aboriginal members of parliament are more than enough to fulfil both aims. The Voice referendum is purely and simply about the drive towards Aboriginal sovereignty, which can only be achieved by changing the nation’s foundational document and charter.

Under the Albanese government, self-determination means the coming referendum, whose barely concealed intention is to divide Australia along lines of race. To achieve this ignoble end, the federal government is stacking the deck via its Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Amendment Bill 2022, which states

The Bill will also allow the Commonwealth to fund educational campaigns to promote voters’ understanding of referendums and the referendum proposal.

At the same time, in a joint media release issued on December 1¹, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus,  Special Minister of State Don Farrell, Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney, and Pat Dodson, special envoy for reconciliation and implementing the Uluru Statement:

To support community education, the Government proposes to temporarily lift a funding restriction in the Act, to enable funding of educational initiatives to counter misinformation.

The entire media release is worth reading. But what is hiding in plain sight, is the Albanese government’s intention to de-facto fund and promote the ‘Yes’ campaign whilst hamstringing ‘No’ advocates. Anything the No campaign says can and will be construed as “misinformation.” 

Thus, the Voice aims to create a sovereign Aboriginal nation, which will not be controlled by ordinary Aboriginals, but by the same elites who hijacked the movement long ago. It will really be the breakup of Australia, something no doubt communist China looks forward to seeing, as it continues to devour a passive Australia.

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