Once the idea of an entitlement takes a grip on the public mind any proposal to reduce it can be easily opposed on moral grounds. If we now say, for instance, that the government shouldn’t endlessly subsidise the lifestyle choice to live in remote regions, it is treated as an affront to Aboriginal rights. How much better were presumptive entitlement to be trumped by a recognition of moral duty and sacrifice

The Voice will create an elite ruling class of Aborigines seeking to bind the rest of the Aboriginal community to their will and opinions. It is a means to constrain and control, not to uplift and empower. The Liberals, near mute on the subject so far, are honour-bound by their professed belief in liberty and the individual to stand firmly and loudly against it