@compass1312

with the caveat that i am a white person assuming the right to discuss this at all (i will dig up some First Nations responses in due course);

the very existence of the referendum question;
the very existence of Australia/ Constitution

assumes “might is right” OR “white superiority” OR “it’s done now best suck it up and make the mist of it” OR something else that makes it okay to decide how to provide or manage a Voice in the first place.

without an Australian government treaty / or someone ceding sovereignty there can be no “contract” between First Nations and Australia

this whole process will have the MORAL authority of a fart in a windstorm

ESPECIALLY given this is being decided NOT by ALL First Nations together but by a (carefully? 🤔) selected handful of First Nations people and a bunch of white (vested?🤔) interests.

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Only in Australia could they justify a referendum proposing more of the same paternalism in the name of greater Indigenous participation in decision making.
Only 0.15% of First Nations people were consulted in the Referendum Council Regional Dialogues.
0.03% of First Nations people was deemed a consensus at the National Constitutional Convention.
People were kept out, shut out and walked out.
This is what the Government thinks Indigenous participation in decision making means.
Ignoring voices for 234 years.
#AbolishTheStatement #treatynow
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