Voice Leads to Treaty

As you already know, I will be voting No at the coming referendum to avoid the possibility of dividing Australia into two separate nations.

However, if you think we need a treaty between aboriginal peoples and the rest of Australians then you will need to vote yes for the Voice.
Why?
Because there can be no Australia-wide treaty without an Australia-wide Voice.
The Voice creates a legally established body to represent the aboriginal peoples which can make agreements with other bodies, including the Australian government.

I appreciate that the PM is often saying that the Voice can only offer the parliament and executive government advice, but that's not true. If you have read the full 26-page 'Uluru Statement from the Heart' (and the minutes of the dialogues which led to its creation) you will know very clearly the real purpose of the Voice.
And the PM has committed to implementing the Uluru Statement in full.

Also, if the Voice is made an equal entity in The Constitution with The Parliament, The Executive Government and the Judicature, as is proposed in this referendum, it potentially has as much authority as those other bodies.

Some people say that a treaty should have been arranged very early in the life of the colony when the British first arrived, but that could not have happened as there was no official aboriginal body with which to make a treaty.
This problem will now be solved by the creation of the Voice, an official aboriginal body created in the constitution to legally represent aboriginal peoples, that will require the government to make a treaty.

Treaties are made between two nations, so if you think we should have a treaty you are encouraging us to split and become two nations.
It will not bring us together, as advocates of the Voice are saying, but will clearly divide us into two nations, and do it with the backing and permanency of the constitution.
If this is your preference you need to vote yes in the coming referendum.

I do not wish that to happen.
So I will be voting No to avoid the establishment of this divisive and undemocratic change to our constitution.

I want us to remain one nation and for us to do better with the billions of dollars we spend each year supposedly improving the opportunities and living conditions of aboriginals who have not become as well off as those who have already benefitted from the advantages brought by the original British and subsequent multinational immigrants that make Australia the successful liberal, western democracy it has become.
(The closing the gap really needed is for the gap to be closed between the living conditions of aboriginal 'elites' and those barely existing in remote communities, for whom too few of those billions seem to be getting through.)

Blessings, Barry

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