It's a few years hence, the Voice referendum has been passed and day-to-day life in Australia -- a considerably smaller Australia -- is rather different from those white supremacist days of old. That was when the country had only one flag and people were judged not as members of an identity group but as individuals. Fortunately, the naked racism of that colonialist perspective had been banished forever

The core claim of the Voice campaign is that only Aboriginal politicians can fix Aboriginal problems. That contradicts the entire basis of Western democracy and administration, which chooses managers based on their expertise and qualifications, not their race