The Voice is Getting Laryngitis! By James Reed
Cracks are already beginning to appear in the Yes campaign for the Voice referendum. Over the past few months support for the Yes vote for the Voice has dropped from 58 percent to now 53 percent, with 39 percent in opposition. As well there are indications that some former Yes states are shifting to the No side, with the No in front in Queensland and South Australia. The referendum requires the majority of voters in the majority of states, so even if woke multicults like Victoria and New South Wales go for it, it can still be defeated. It really is the battle for Australian freedom and sovereignty, and the Voice will divide Australia like never before, leading no doubt to the breakup of Australia, with likely reparations, as are being seen floated in the US. Win this war at the grass roots by convincing all the people you know to go No!
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“The campaign for an Indigenous voice to be entrenched in the Constitution is now in deep trouble. The latest Resolve polling shows the Yes vote has dropped from 64 per cent late last year, to 58 per cent earlier this year, to just 53 per cent now.
The raw figures are 39 per cent opposition to the voice, 18 per cent undecided and just 44 per cent support. What’s more, according to the pollsters, some states are shifting from Yes to No. This matters because a successful referendum has to be carried by a majority of the states and a majority of voters overall.
This tends to confirm last month’s Morgan poll, showing a seven percentage point drop in the Yes vote to 46 per cent; and a nine percentage point rise in the No vote to 39 per cent. In two states, Queensland (46-41) and in South Australia (50-39), the No vote was actually in front. Only in Victoria, said Morgan, was there still majority support for Yes. As well, the Essential poll has Yes down six points to 59 and No up six points to 41 since February. This polling is remarkably similar to polling on becoming a republic, five months out from the 1999 referendum, which ultimately went down in every state and 55-45 nationally.
From the beginning, No campaigners have been telling me that poll support for the voice was “a mile wide but an inch deep”.
No campaigners say voter concerns that the voice may be divisive and that there’s not enough detail are being intensified once people are clear that the voice involves changing the Constitution – which, unlike legislative change, is permanent.
As well, especially among the overseas born, voters are starting to ask why this generation of Australians – who have never been responsible for mistreating Indigenous people – should have to make it up to current generations of Indigenous people.
This will get only worse as more questions emerge that voice proponents can’t (or won’t) answer. And while just about everyone would be happy to see Indigenous people formally recognised in the Constitution as the First Australians, it’s far from clear that a super-majority of voters are prepared to give the government what amounts to a blank cheque for a change that’s so much more than that.
The government’s insistence that the voice is no more than giving Indigenous people the polite hearing they obviously deserve on matters affecting them is starting to unravel, as the scale of the intended indigenisation starts to become more clear. The voice is just the first demand of the Uluru Statement from the Heart “voice, treaty, truth” to which the Prime Minister says the government is committed “in full.”
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