The Voice
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Remarkably, the Voice went down despite big business, big tech, big sport, and big philanthropy
September 14, 2024
14 mins
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It is only when we will stop with all this performative politics that we will create space for accountability politics to take charge once again. Every beleaguered Australian deserves no less.
August 28, 2024
5 mins
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When the Constitution's framers set to work all agreed the legal-institutional framework of their new nation should be under the Crown. Without going anywhere near making Australia a republic, the lease on Yarralumla being handed to a hack careerist and Labor apparatchik suggests it is a moment to regret that Sir George Grey didn't get his way
May 31, 2024
30 mins
The latest
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Defeated at the polls, the Albanese government, according to Linda Burney, is actively seeking to implement what might be called Voice-Lite via local and regional bodies. Australians who voted 'No' are entitled to feel scammed, but not Canberra's eager bureaucracy
January 9, 2024
6 mins
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In one of Australia’s greatest but typical electoral misreadings, Marcia Langton threatened a ban on welcome-to-country ceremonies -- and, just to sweeten the deal, a ban on her own conference appearances. At that moment, it is reasonable to suspect, the No vote against the Voice increased exponentially in all states and territories
December 17, 2023
9 mins
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When Aboriginal activists deny the legitimacy of the Australian nation state, it is not merely a declaration of independence from the constitutional structure of our country but a vehement denial that it has any valid authority over anyone, be they black, white or brindle. Into such an ideology the urge to violence flows like water down a drain
November 10, 2023
5 mins
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You might almost call it the very essence of consensus, the way Australia's peak scientific and research organisations went all-out to back the Yes case, most advancing their cause with nebulous arguments distilled from torrents of misleading assertions and feel-good cliches. As you might expect, defeat has prompted an eruption of pique and disgust directed at fellow Australians
November 5, 2023
9 mins
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Corporate directors as individuals had every right to advocate a 'Yes' vote, but in authorising the allocation of funds to support the Voice it may be argued that they breached their fiduciary duties to shareholders. Should they be required to reimburse their companies for the money squandered on what 61% of Australians rejected? It's a question to be raised at any number of AGMs
November 3, 2023
6 mins
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Voice advocates, modestly declining to provide their names, have released a splenetic letter accusing fellow Australians of racist cruelty. They need not be so upset. The Welcome to Country set pieces will remain, flags representing some and not others will still fly and the renaming of cities will continue -- if, that is, those who voted 'No' lapse into unfussed complacency
October 23, 2023
7 mins
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Mention indigenous crime and watch the Left boomerang it back as an indictment of the general society. The violence, truancy and small children infected with sexually transmitted diseases, well it's all white Australia's fault. Were Voice advocates capable self-reflection -- a dubious notion, admittedly -- they would recognise in themselves an abhorrent and racist paternalism
October 19, 2023
9 mins
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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
October 17, 2023
3 mins
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The months between Anthony Albanese's rash election-night pledge and the Voice's overwhelming rejection on October 14 saw public support follow an unvarying downward path to utter defeat. Much as its promoters prefer to blame racism, misinformation and 'sheer stupidity' for their failure, it was hubris, arrogance and bullying which brought their cause undone
October 17, 2023
14 mins