Most Australians want first peoples recognised in the Constitution. The polls leave no doubt about the strength of that sentiment, and this suits a government doing its devious best to make sure voters remain uninformed about the thrust of all three elements the Voice proposes. What we are witnessing is a classic bait-and-switch, a veritable constitutional fraud

The elite’s geographical and intellectual isolation from their fellow Australians leaves its members struggling to comprehend how anyone could be against enshrining race in the Constitution. Blinded by self-virtue, the motive they wrongly discern is deep-rooted racism and hate. Regardless of how the referendum goes, the real causes of indigenous disadvantage will remain

Megan Davis claims that at Federation the notion of 'the people' specifically omitted from the Aus­tralian polity Aborigines, women and Chinese and Kanaks by denying them all the right to vote. This claim reveals her complete ignorance of Australia electoral history. Alas amongst her fellow 'Yes' activists she is far from alone

There is no love for Aborigines in this referendum proposal, just ego. Aboriginal people in remote and blighted communities are radically disabled. They are self-determining all right -- sitting on country, not speaking English and dying early. Aboriginal leaders, CEOs and the Prime Minister think this is a good idea. That must be their view, because their solution is to change nothing

A constitutional scholar writes: 'If section 129(iii) prevails, what might happen under the aliens power in section 51(xxvi)? Could the Voice determine in exercise of its presently unspecified powers that some of the Australian population are aliens? Could those 'aliens' be all who are not Aborigines? It is conceivable that most of us might end up classified as aliens in our own land 

Several indigenous agencies whose purpose is to improve the status of indigenous people by influencing or advising the government already already exist and are generously funded. Why, then, the purported need for a new organisation, and why can't the functions set out in the proposed constitutional amendment be undertaken by the existing bodies?

The push to install the Voice in the Constitution is underpinned by a re-imagining of Aboriginal culture, which now bears little resemblance to the reality of the past, having morphed in the popular imagination into a New Age idyll that is arguably as much Disney as Dreaming

Naturally, being emotionally exploitative, politically compromised and horribly woke, the AFL joined the NRL, Football Australia, Netball Australia, Tennis Australia, Cricket Australia, Rugby Australia and everything else with an 'Australia' suffix to back the Yes vote. It's amazing how much obedience large grants and a new stadium or two can buy

When an oil outfit sought to drill near P Hill in the Kimberley, the rocky hump had been part of local mythology beyond memory. By the time the saga ran its course, it was being hyped as 'supernatural, supreme of God'. There's a lesson here for cynics, who regard all sites as fabrications, and also for those who believe all sites are as sacred as claimed