Has the South Australian Voice Already Failed? By James Reed

Dear ……,

This evening, the final results for the South Australian State Voice were announced.

After all Labor's publicity and millions of dollars of taxpayer money wasted, only 10% of South Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people cast a vote.

In fact, across the entire State, only 2583 votes were cast. Some candidates were elected with as few as six votes. Three candidates did not receive a single vote, showing they could not even be bothered to vote for themselves.

The Premier of this State persisted with and implemented this State-based Voice without any electoral mandate despite the clear opposition of a substantial majority of South Australians.

In October 2023, 64% of South Australians voted against the Federal Voice. Now, 90% of indigenous South Australians have refused to cast a vote for their State Voice.

Like its Federal counterpart, the State Voice has now shown itself to be a complete failure, for which Premier Malinauskas and the Labor Party bear full responsibility.

Those elected to the Voice, on a mandate of as few as six votes, now wield extraordinary powers over the Parliament of South Australia, elected to represent more than 1.7 million South Australians.

This is an utter scandal.

Despite the wishes of the vast majority of South Australians, the Premier of this State has transferred significant legislative power to a tiny minority of vested interests and activists without any democratic mandate.

Labor's State Voice has comprehensively failed.

The Premier must immediately introduce legislation to disband this frighteningly unrepresentative body, which even indigenous Australians have now overwhelmingly rejected.

Please visit www.dontdividesa.com.au and sign the petition.