The Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney addressed the National Press Club this afternoon and used the opportunity to outline what she says will ...
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
See analogy above re ducks and quacks
It’s nonsense mate, just because you say it a little louder doesn’t make it any truer.
I can do analogies as well,