The Voice: Uluru Statement a Declaration of War! By James Reed
Leading No campaigner against the Voice, Warren Mundine, unlike Senator Price, seems to be supportive of a treaty, but not within the framework that the Yes side has proposed. But he has done well, by coming out and saying that the foundation document behind the Voice, The Uluru Statement from the Heart is a “symbolic declaration of war against modern Australia.”
He is referring to what is written in the full document, not the one-page introduction that the prime minister pushes as being the full text, even though that one page makes no sense taken out of context on its own, and itself implies that here must be more to the document, if it is coherently written at all.
According to Warren Mundine, himself Aboriginal, the black arm band view of history championed by the Uluru Statement is wrong: “We have taken the best of our history and built a nation where everyone is equal, where any person, regardless of their origin, can aspire and achieve the highest.” The Voice will establish racial apartheidism in Australia and undermines the culture of a fair deal and equity that the nation has been built upon. “The canvas is a glossy marketing brochure for the misappropriation of culture, a misrepresentation of history, and for a radical and divisive vision of Australia—all done in the name of Indigenous Australians but working against us.”
More excellent reasons to vote No. and while it looks like the No side will win, we must not relax and need to keep up the pace of opposition, since be sure that the corporates and globalists backing Yes with their millions, will not want to see a defeat, and still have tricks up their sleeves.
“Leading "No" campaigner Warren Mundine has called the Uluru Statement from the Heart a “symbolic declaration of war against modern Australia.”
In a speech to the National Press Club on Sept. 26, Mr. Mundine criticised the Uluru Statement for depicting Indigenous Australians as trapped under oppression.
“This is a lie,” he said, arguing that no country has overcome past conflicts and injustices better than Australia
“No nation in the world had a perfect beginning. Most have bloody and brutal beginnings founded in invasion, conquest, revolution, or war,” he said.
“We have taken the best of our history and built a nation where everyone is equal, where any person, regardless of their origin, can aspire and achieve the highest.”
Mr. Mundine criticised the rhetoric of the Uluru Statement and The Voice, saying it would reintroduce racial segregation back into Australia.
“We described the Uluru Statement as a symbolic declaration of war against modern Australia,” he said.
“The canvas is a glossy marketing brochure for the misappropriation of culture, a misrepresentation of history, and for a radical and divisive vision of Australia—all done in the name of Indigenous Australians but working against us.”
On Oct. 14, Australians will go to the polls to vote on an amendment to the Constitution to change the preamble to recognise Indigenous people and to set up an advisory body to Parliament to make "representations" on issues deemed relevant to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
The Uluru Statement's Real Intent Uncovered?
The Uluru Statement from the Heart is the result of years of dialogues between governments and Indigenous elders and is the main document behind the push for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum.
A Freedom of Information document published by the National Indigenous Australians Agency revealed the Statement could be much longer than indicated with another 25 pages of background information and regional dialogue unearthed.
In a section titled “Our Story,” it said Indigenous communities have struggled through “relentless inhumanity” after Aboriginal communities were “ruptured by colonisation.”
Mr. Mundine described the document as a manifesto “steeped in grievance” and that it “couldn’t be further from the idea of reconciliation.”
“It sees Indigenous Australians as trapped in victimhood and oppression not free are able to make their own decisions,” he said.
He said The Voice was built on lies and would just add another layer of bureaucracy in Canberra, without providing any real difference to Indigenous communities on the ground.
“The fact is that most Indigenous Australians are doing fine,” he said.
“They go to school, go to work, run businesses, take care of their families, and they are not in prison.”
Learn From the Past and Move On
The No campaigner called on the Indigenous community to acknowledge past atrocities while learning to move forward without being shackled down by history.
“Indigenous people also need to forgive Australia as a nation. Many Aboriginals feel angry about past wrongdoings but these events cannot be undone,” Mr. Mundine said.
“We have a choice to continue to feel aggrieved or to draw a line in history and not be captive to that past. Always remember, never forget the history. Learn from it but move forward.”
Mr. Mundine has been a long-time advocate of personal accountability and finding individual success through education and economic participation.
“I saw this with my parents and grandparents who were determined to own their own home and to ensure that their kids got educated and into employment,” he said.
“I don’t know of any group of people in the world that has lifted out of poverty without economic participation.
“If every Indigenous child went to school, and every Indigenous adult went to work, there would be no gap.”
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