• chug@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think more needs to be done when it comes to First Nations people and closing the gaps but just can’t get past the fact of allowing a group based on race to hold a position in parliament without being voted in each term by Australian voters.

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      1 year ago

      They’re not in parliament; literally all this does is mandate that their lobby group exist, not that anyone has to listen to them… it’s not exactly a big ask

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      1 year ago

      Except they’re not in Parliament. The Voice is a body that can make submissions to Parliament; they don’t get to make the decisions. Parliament is still made up of elected representatives.

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      It’s not a voice based on race, this is the biggest fallacy. It’s a voice for the traditional owners of a land that was never ceded.

      Is not because they’re aboriginal, it’s because they were here first.

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          1 year ago

          It’s nonsense mate, just because you say it a little louder doesn’t make it any truer.

          I can do analogies as well,

          Let’s give a special privalege to all fruit that are really high in potassium.

          No it’s unfair to give bananas special treatment just because they’re yellow!