You could almost feel sorry for Anthony Albanese, despite all the time and money wasted, the rancour and division in pursuit of a very bad idea. Now, as he crawls from beneath the Voice train wreck, his penance will be to endure the blame and pressure from those who fancied his vow to amend the Constitution as the first step to a treaty and, best of all, reparations

Rather than express the wants and needs of the most disadvantaged Aborigines, the Voice would be a megaphone for the same activist cadre which constituted the pre-Uluru dialogues. What was confirmed by the 14 NIAA documents extracted via an FOI application is the Aboriginal Industry's determined intention to gain a treaty and, of course, reparations

SBS series 'The Australian Wars' is the latest example of what we are being told is 'truth telling', a process apparently defined as being whatever an Aboriginal activist says to the non-Aboriginal majority of Australians. Labor is fine with this, while the Liberals appear unaware of the threat to the ultimate integrity of the Australian nation state

The same-sex marriage plebiscite of 2017 offers no encouragement to believe opinions and reasoned arguments against the Voice will be presented by the mainstream media and Big Tech's search engines as anything other than a view held by a racist fringe. That's why it is vital for those who value true equality under the Constitution to ignore the slurs and speak up often and loud

The fiction of the High Court's judgment in Mabo v. Queensland grows ever larger in the imagination of the activists, who frame it as a milestone on the inexorable journey towards restoration of Aboriginal independence and sovereignty. Politically that may prove to be true, but legally it is nonsense

Senators and members of the House of Representatives, even those with no knowledge they were eligible for citizenship of a foreign nation, were ruled to be ineligible to sit. Now consider new Indigenous Affairs minister Linda Burney, a self-proclaimed 'member of the mighty Wiradjuri Aboriginal nation'. By law and precedent she must surely be in breach of Section 44 of the Constitution