Fighting the State Treaties By James Reed
After the No side won the Voice referendum there has been a push by the defeated Yes side to still press on with the agenda of a treaty and an extremely disturbing truth telling commission. There has been more discussion of the treaty than the truth telling commission, but both are clear threats to liberty and property.
The treaty will roll into place the disaster that has been seen in New Zealand, with a highly racialized politics, as well as some sort of reparations. How this loot will be divided from the money of the long-suffering tax payer, has not been detailed, let alone telling us who actually is an indigenous person to receive reparations. And the South African-style truth commission will simply be an institutionalised version of what is done at the universities to denigrate British settlement and the entire foundation of Australia. All paid for out of our taxes!
Fortunately, even with this massive propaganda gong for these woke radical Leftist agendas, that the Labor party and Greens salivate over, the Australian people have rejected both the treaties, done at state levels, as well as the truth commission/inquisition. Only a third of voters support these agendas, which is higher than the opposition to the Voice referendum. Still, despite this, the treaty measure is already up in woke South Australia, and other states, such as Victoria, are following. Thus, the battle will have to be on a state-by-state basis. Places like South Australia will serve as living examples of the great treaty folly, when reparations crash the state budgets!
“Support for a treaty with First Nations people has slumped while approval for a truth-telling commission has languished after the Voice referendum was defeated.
Only about a third of voters now support these measures, which along with the Voice, were the three pillars of the Uluru Statement from the Heart that the Albanese government had committed to fulfilling.
Backing for the treaty has fallen from 58 per cent in October to 33 per cent this month, according to a Resolve Political Monitor survey done for the Nine News mastheads.
Support for a treaty with First Nations people has slumped while approval for a truth-telling commission has languished after the Voice referendum was defeated.
Only about a third of voters now support these measures, which along with the Voice, were the three pillars of the Uluru Statement from the Heart that the Albanese government had committed to fulfilling.
Backing for the treaty has fallen from 58 per cent in October to 33 per cent this month, according to a Resolve Political Monitor survey done for the Nine News mastheads.
Minister for Indigenous Affairs Linda Burney said this week that the government was 'taking the time to pause and to listen to Indigenous communities before we decide on the next steps forward.'
'I have met with my state and territory colleagues and received an update on where each jurisdiction is up to in terms of establishing representative bodies, truth-telling and agreement-making,' Ms Burney said.
In the wake of the resounding defeat of the Voice at the October 14 referendum, where over 60 per cent of voters rejected the proposal, even support for simple constitutional recognition has fallen from 58 per cent to 48 per cent in a month.
Resolve director Jim Reed noted that this measure previously had always been supported by a majority of voters.
'It's now collapsed, so in many ways the baby has been thrown out with the bathwater,' Reed told the Sydney Morning Herald.
Before the referendum Prime Minister Anthony Albanese ruled out legislating the Voice into existence and there is little public support for him to now do this.
The Resolve polling found only 40 per cent would back such a move down from 49 per cent in January, while 40 per cent oppose it and 20 per cent are undecided.
Despite the waning support for Treaty some states are still pursuing it.
A First People's Assembly is already in place in Victoria and the Labor Allan government still fully committed to negotiating a treaty with the body.
In NSW, $5million has been spent on a consultation process for a similar policy, although Premier Chris Minns said recently any action would be shelved until after the next state election.
In Queensland a legislated Path to Treaty was underway but has hit a wall with the LNP withdrawing their support last month and Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk saying she would only move forward with bipartisan commitment.
The South Australian government legislated a state-based voice to parliament in March but postponed elections to the body until March 2024.
The Weatherill Labor government embarked on a state treaty process in 2016 but it was halted by the previous Liberal government in 2018 and the current Labor government has yet to restart the process.
Western Australia currently has no treaty or truth-telling plans, but some lawyers and academics have called the South West Native Title Settlement between the Noongar people and the state government Australia's first treaty.
Premier Roger Cook said a state Voice was not on the agenda and sought to remind people that the state's constitution was altered in 2015 to recognise Aboriginal people.
The previous state government led by former Premier Mark McGowan began plans in 2018 to create an Indigenous representative body in Western Australia.”
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