Bruce Bennett, writing at the blog today about the Voice situation in New Zealand, says that a treaty is behind the Voice agenda. It may not happen immediately, but once one is on this slippery slope, it will be inevitable. Peta Credlin makes the same point, that a treaty would then be on the way if the Voice passes. As detailed in a piece that has been doing the rounds, attributed to a politician leading the No campaign, which I have not been able to verify for my satisfaction, there will be reparations as well, as white Australians will be made to pay for, well, building this country. “Australia got a whole country for nothing, they haven’t even begun to pay for it.” “…[A] Treaty could include a proper say in decision-making, the establishment of a truth commission, reparations, a financial settlement (such as seeking a percentage of GDP), the resolution of land, water and resources issues, recognition of authority and customary law…” For a piece of harsh land that was civilised by sweat and tears.
That is chilling and a good reason for fighting hard now before something as bad as that gets imposed upon us.
“Let’s be “under no illusion” about what the Indigenous Voice to Parliament would “inevitably” mean, says Sky News host Peta Credlin.
“It will mean demands, of course, to change the date of Australia Day, it will mean demands to re-write Australian history, it will mean demands for treaties between our country and small groups of our citizens,” she said.
“The Voice is not just about being polite and respectful to Aboriginal people. Far from it.
“It’s about whether Australia belongs to all of us – or to just some of us, with most of us being barely tolerated as interlopers despite the contribution all of us have made to this country and those who have come before us, regardless of our skin colour.”
https://hotcopper.co.nz/threads/not-my-voice.7332564/page-9?post_id=67316820
“This is the bombshell Albo tried to hide.
But now it’s out and every Australian needs to hear it before voting on the divisive Voice.
You know how the PM keeps saying the Voice is a “modest change” to the Constitution?
Well, the real agenda behind his Voice referendum has finally been revealed.
Secret government documents the … was forced to release under freedom of information laws say that “any Voice to Parliament should be designed so that it could support and promote a treaty-making process”1.
And what’s in the treaty?
According to these secret documents, it must include a “fixed percentage of Gross National Product. Rates/land tax/royalties”.
The documents explain:
…a Treaty could include a proper say in decision-making, the establishment of a truth commission, reparations, a financial settlement (such as seeking a percentage of GDP), the resolution of land, water and resources issues, recognition of authority and customary law…
This a direct quote from the secret Voice documents:
“Australia got a whole country for nothing, they haven’t even begun to pay for it.”
Doesn’t that just tell you everything you need to know?
But it gets worse.
According to these documents, they want to abolish the Australian flag, because “the Australian flag symbolised the injustices of colonisation”.
This is why I get so angry when Albo says this is a modest proposal.
What’s modest about forcing you to change your flag or pay a percentage of the entire economy as reparations?
Sounds like a bloody BIG change to me!
Just to be super clear, this is how their plan works:
They enshrine the divisive Voice in the Constitution and it’s there forever.
The Voice forces Australians into a “treaty”.
The treaty means Australians pay a percentage of the GDP – that is, a percentage of the entire nation’s economy – to the Voice … every year.
On top of that, Australians are forced to pay “rates/land tax/royalties” to the Voice.
This is why Albo wants you to think you’re voting on a “modest” change.
Because when Australians find out the truth, there’s no way they’d support it, let alone enshrine it in their Constitution forever.”