Two years after Victorians delivered a resounding "No" to racial division in the 2023 Voice referendum, 54% statewide, and a whopping 59% in Premier Jacinta Allan's own Bendigo East electorate, the Labor government is barrelling ahead with its Statewide Treaty Bill 2025, set for debate on the exact anniversary of that democratic verdict. This isn't reconciliation; it's a middle finger to equality, enshrining a race-based parallel parliament called Gellung Warl that will dictate policy, summon ministers, and create "substantive rules" applying different laws to Indigenous Victorians, all funded by every taxpayer, but accountable only to a select few. Sold as "truth-telling" and self-determination, it's really a woke power grab that transforms Victoria into a two-tier society, where ancestry trumps merit and unity. As the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) warns, this "Voice on steroids" will erode parliamentary sovereignty, with $70 million annually locked in via automatic 2.5% escalations, straight from your pocket to a body that can even lower the voting age to 16 for its elections. Premier Allan claims it's different because it skips the constitution, but that's constitutional nitpicking, Victorians rejected racial carve-outs, period.
The irony is thicker than Allan's denial. Post-referendum polls confirm: 70% of "No" voters (from an IPA-Advance survey of 3,500 Aussies) and 66.1% from ANU's study of 4,200 cited fears of division as their top reason. It wasn't bigotry; it was a love for fairness, a rejection of laws that say your skin colour — or your ancestors' — dictates your rights. Yet here we are, with Labor's bill establishing Gellung Warl as a "deliberative body" with arms for decision-making (First Peoples' Assembly), truth-telling (Nyerna Yoorrook Telkuna), and accountability (Nginma Ngainga Wara). This setup mandates government consultation before legislation, lets it grill ministers, and crafts rules on everything from school curricula to traditional place names, potentially restricting access to skiing, fishing, or hunting in "cultural" zones. Only Indigenous Victorians vote for its members (after three of five years residency), giving them double influence while non-Indigenous pay the bill. As IPA's Margaret Chambers puts it, this "affront to equality" creates special rights for some, paving the way for reparations and vetoes over policy.
Labor's woke intransigence isn't just undemocratic, it's a betrayal amid Victoria's crumbling under mass immigration. Net migration hit 500,000 nationally last year, with Victoria absorbing over 100,000, fuelling housing crises (rents up 15%), hospital wait times, and wage stagnation. Yet while Allan's government floods the state with newcomers, easing visas for Indians and Nepalis, ironically straining resources for all, the treaty glosses over how this globalist frenzy exacerbates Indigenous inequities. The Yoorrook Justice Commission's 2025 report slammed colonisation as "genocide," detailing massacres, land theft, and cultural erasure that still echo in overrepresentation in child removals (up in Victoria) and prisons. Closing the Gap? Failing miserably, with little political will post-Voice flop.
Enter the elders: It's high time they unleash a damning broadside against this hypocrisy. Indigenous voices have long warned that unchecked immigration and globalisation erode the very lands and sovereignty they're fighting for. A 2025 study highlights multiculturalism's "critical blind spot," treating Indigenous peoples as "just another ethnic minority" while newcomers flood sacred sites and strain services meant for healing historical wounds. Navajo and Cherokee elders have prophesied 2025 as humanity's "point of no return," decrying globalisation's disruption of local ways and supply chains that prioritise profit over planet. In Australia, anti-immigration rallies in Melbourne (August, October, 2025) turned violent, with neo-Nazis attacking Indigenous Camp Sovereignty, yet the underlying gripe about "bursting at the seams" resonates when housing shortages hit First Nations hardest. Indian migrants face racist backlash, but elders could pivot: Mass influxes aren't "replacement," they're recolonisation by proxy, diluting cultural resurgence while Labor virtue-signals with treaties that ignore real pressures.
Imagine elders like those from Noongar or Dine communities thundering: "We survived genocide; now globalisation drowns our voices in a sea of visas." Panels like ISSofBC's Indigenous Perspectives on Immigration (2025) already probe newcomers' role in relations, why not amplify elders calling for caps to protect sovereignty? The treaty's "resurgence" clause draws from Aboriginal Lore, but how does it square with endless arrivals turning Victoria into a transient hub?
Allan's Labor can't accept the referendum's lesson: Unity over separation. By ramming through Gellung Warl, despite its oversight by IBAC and Ombudsman as a fig leaf of accountability, they're not empowering First Peoples; they're entrenching division while mass immigration hollows out the state for everyone. Elders, seize this: Blast the globalist Ponzi that's pricing out your kids faster than any ballot. Demand treaties that prioritise borders, for culture, land, and future. Victorians want equality; deliver it by rejecting the woke elite's divide-and-conquer game. The clock's ticking to 2025's "point of no return" — make it a turning point for all.
https://ipa.org.au/thevoice/two-years-since-victorians-rejected-the-voice-now-we-have-a-treaty