PM Albanese Given His Voice Orders from the Corporate Elites By James Reed
We have said this in many articles on the Voice, of the corporate elite’s impact on the Voice debate, but now we are pleased to see our view also shared by an article in The Australian, reporting on one of the few critical murmurs made by the Leader of the Opposition in the Voice debate.
Peter Dutton has said that PM Albanese did not get the Voice right, because the corporate elites were telling him what to do. Well, I don’t think Albo should be let off the hook in this way, as he was with the Uluru Statement from the beginning, and endorsed it as well, so Albo was converted. He was, of course, encouraged by the corporates, who for whatever reason support woke causes. But, it was all there in the beginning.
Dutton needs roasting over his weak response that Australia’s international reputation is somehow damaged. This gives an exaggerated importance to Australia; the world is too chaotic for people to spend time worrying about what happens in the land down under!
“Peter Dutton has blamed Anthony Albanese for any damage to Australia’s international reputation in the wake of a failed voice referendum, and claimed the Prime Minister didn’t water down the model because “Alan Joyce and others” told him not to.
With 10 days to go until polls close, the Opposition Leader predicted Australians would vote No “in record number” as prominent Yes campaigner Noel Pearson accused people who have demanded more detail about the voice – including supporter Frank Brennan – of deliberately confusing voters.
Mr Dutton has previously hit out at the government and some business leaders for suggesting Australia’s international reputation would be tarnished by a No vote, but on Wednesday appeared to agree it would.
“The Prime Minister has been warned of this,” he said.
“The Prime Minister predicted months ago that this would set back reconciliation, that it would create an international reputational risk for us, but did he stop? Did he change the wording? Did he tighten the wording? No he did none of that because Alan Joyce and others were telling him not to.
“So when you hang out with the top end of town you forget about what normal people in the suburbs and the cities and the regions are saying, and that’s the problem the Prime Minister’s got. I think he’s out of touch.
“I think the Prime Minister is misleading the Australian people at the moment when he says that this is just a ‘mild, modest, respectful change’. This is the biggest change to our Constitution proposed since federation. And nobody understands what it is that he’s talking about.”
Mr Albanese has repeatedly said it was Aboriginal people who had endorsed and wanted the voice proposal the government has put to the Australian people.
Campaigning in South Australia on Wednesday, opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price said many voters couldn’t express their support for No, which was “really shameful I think in a democratic country such as our own”.
“We don’t want our Constitution divided along the lines of race. We want to maintain equal citizenship for all Australians, with no sort of changes based on heritage, how far back one’s heritage goes in this country. So I’m really grateful for the incredible support the Australian people have certainly showed me as I’ve toured around the country, and continuing on until October 14,” she said.”
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