The Voice Agenda: Every Aboriginal Elder Should Be Living Rent Free! By James Reed
According to a senior advisor to the Labor Government on the Voice to Parliament, reparations and land is required for indigenous Australians. That Voice advocate wants every Aboriginal elder in New South Wales to be living rent free. That needs to be viewed in the context that native title has already given Aboriginals over 50 percent of the land mass of Australia. One can only guess where the elites, and that includes the globalist corporate elites, will take this. It will be the total dispossession of Australians.
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“A senior advisor to the Labor Government on the Voice to Parliament is seeking 'reparations and land' for Indigenous Australians - and declared in January that every Aboriginal elder in NSW should be living 'rent-free'.
Teela Reid, a lawyer, Wiradjuri woman and public speaker, also once described the proposal to change the constitution as a 'journey with all Australians to demolish the systems that continue to oppress us'.
However, Ms Reid - who sits on the government's Voice to Parliament Referendum Engagement Group - says she is not 'radical', despite her views.
Ms Reid has said she is 'concerned by the conservatism of [her] profession' and urged lawyers across Australia to support the Voice in a wide-ranging interview for YouTube.
She also called for strong activism she likened to the push for communism in the 1970s.
In newly unearthed tweets from 2019, Ms Reid said: 'Aboriginal people built the nation and now it's time you pay rent.'
In January this year, Ms Reid demanded 'every Aboriginal elder in NSW should be living rent-free'.
She said such action was the 'bare minimum this state has to offer given the displacement and dispossession'.
'How many white people in NSW are living off land that was given to them for free, and still benefit,' she asked in the post, tagging both Premier Chris Minns and former premier Dominic Perrottet.
In a 2020 tweet, Ms Reid called for 'reckoning, reparations and land back'.
'F**k reconciliation,' she said at the time, before saying 'burn your RAPs' - a reference to reconciliation action plans adopted by more than 2,400 Australian corporations.
Ms Reid is one of 40 members of Labor's official Referendum Engagement Group, tasked with working alongside the Referendum Working Group and the government to prepare the question which will be asked of all Australians late this year.
In March 2021, she participated in a panel alongside fellow Voice architect Thomas Mayo for the Search Foundation, a left-wing thinktank that markets itself as the successor group to the Communist Party of Australia.
Ms Reid said 'the onus is absolutely on non-Indigenous people to take ownership and be very honest about what their ancestors did to our people'.
She said it was crucial the Uluru Statement from the Heart is enacted in full.
'In order to get to the important point of an honest conversation about that history and to ensure all First Nations voices are heard in terms of Treaty, it is absolutely critical to get our nation to the point of constitutionally enshrining a First Nations voice,' she said.
'It is not about just listening to the loudest, most influential voices who have access to Canberra.'
Ms Reid maintained that Australians need to be informed that 'legally and politically... the assumption that Australia was peacefully settled is dishonest'.
She described 'shifting that narrative as ... the crux of our struggle'.
During that same panel discussion, Mr Mayo discussed making compensation for Indigenous people a reality.
'This is the first step, it's a vital step and it puts all the explanation behind it,' he said.
'"Pay the Rent" for example, how do we do that in a way that is transparent and that actually sees reparations and compensation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people beyond what we say and do at a rally?
'It is a really important campaign and there's a very specific lot of asks and a clear invitation to the Australian people to walk with us.'
The 'Pay the Rent' movement wants homeowners to voluntarily pay a percentage of their income to Aboriginal elders without any government oversight or intervention.
Like Ms Reid, Mr Mayo has also made several comments on social media about his desire to seek reparations, rent and have land returned to First Nations people.
But their views have occasionally been at odds with the official message coming from the government and Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney.
When Ms Burney said a Voice to Parliament would have no interest in making representations on the date of Australia Day, Ms Reid publicly spoke out.
She said: 'It is truly disingenuous to be claiming mob won't be demanding to #AbolishAustralia day.
'It started decades before the referendum, it'll still be a demand after it.'
In a 2022 opinion piece, Mr Mayo even suggested the new date could be the day the Voice to Parliament referendum passes.
Mr Mayo has since told Daily Mail Australia this is a view he no longer supports, stating he does not 'share that particular view about Australia Day anymore'.
Ms Burney was questioned on Sunday about the 'scope' of the body and how it would delve beyond the four priority areas she outlined.
She claimed that it would be a 'two-way process' between the government and the advisory body and that the 'scope should be a respectful discussion with the Voice'.
'I have identified very clearly what I think the priorities are. But obviously there are other issues like baby birthweights, like life expectancy,' she said.”
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