8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (9)
#18254472 at 2023-01-30 19:12:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22367: Russian Collusion Boomerang Edition
Indigenous Voice to Parliament run by 'elites' ignoring Aboriginal voices, claims Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price
A prominent Aboriginal Senator has claimed the Indigenous Voice to Parliament has been hijacked by "the elites" pushing an agenda.
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has dismissed the Indigenous Voice to Parliament campaign as being run by "elites" looking to push an agenda.
Plans for the referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament have been at the forefront of the Labor Party's policy platform since before the May election.
Under the proposal, a constitutionally enshrined Voice to Parliament would be a permanent body representing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples that would advise the government on policies relating to Indigenous issues.
Speaking to Sky News' Paul Murray on Monday night, Senator Price said a lot of Aboriginal Australians felt they weren't being heard amid a push from "the elites" to establish an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
"And you only have to look as far as ... when you've got the likes of the Teals all backing in Albanese," she said.
"When you've even got the leader of the Greens, who can't even back up his First Nations spokesperson."
Senator Price is one of the leading voices behind the 'No' campaign for the upcoming referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
She argues the body would divide Australians "along the lines of race" and is designed to empower "elites" in the community.
Ms Price said since establishing the 'No' campaign with Indigenous businessman and activist Warren Mundine, she had been inundated with messages from Aboriginal Australians.
"I'm telling you now, this is the elites pushing what they believe Aboriginal Australians need," she said of the Voice proposal.
"We're seeing the momentum gather already, in terms of Aboriginal people trying to get hold of us.
"So that's who we'll be tapping into at a grassroots level.
"There are plenty of Aboriginal people who feel like they are not being represented in this argument, and that's who's been reaching out to the 'No' committee already."
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/campaign-for-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-run-by-elites-ignoring-aboriginal-voices-claims-senator-jacinta-nampijinpa-price/news-story/34e01f66203c886c046df412f05f09bc
#17911163 at 2022-12-09 05:26:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21951: NarrativeShift Edition
International Q Research Threads
>>17453586 ---------------- Australia #26
>>17722898 ---------------- Canada #38
>>16694358 ---------------- France #7
>>17595232 ---------------- Germany #104
>>17726021 ---------------- Japan #8
>>16694250 ---------------- Nederland #10
>>17784579 ---------------- QAJF #1
>>17352350 ---------------- Scotland #8
>>17705335 ---------------- South Africa #10
>>17722137 ---------------- UK #49
>>17631245 ---------------- Vatican #6
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#21950
>>17910443 Q drop 4602 includes image that looks very similar to twitter screenshots dropped tonight in the part 2 thread of released twitter files
>>17910497 Kash Patel Calls Out Biden For The "Tragic Trade" That Freed International Terrorist
>>17910506, >>17910513, >>17910549 KARI LAKE HAS IT ALL
>>17910636 Dr. Risch comes out and says there's
>>17910666 Seb Gorka: Elon Musk Plays With Politics "Like A Kid In Toy Store"
>>17910668 WHAT HAPPENED IN GERMANY WITH THE ARRESTS, AND WHAT HAPPENED TO REINER FUELLMICH, A FIGHTER AND HONEST MAN ?
>>17910700, >>17910742, >>17910742 Dr. Fuellmich covers the grand jury and what happened to it, including Vivian accusations of fraud
>>17910751 Dr. Malone: The COVID Jab Should Not Be Considered As Vaccine Under New Legislation
>>17910783 Like clockwork, hey're back to the "pepe frog is a hate symbol" BS
>>17910821, >>17910825 They are making Bill Clinton Trend On Twat. Maybe its a good time to RED PILL!
>>17910831 Ukrainians desecrate DPR flag at US Congress (VIDEO) isn't Ukraine fighting to get this region back from Russia?
>>17910867, >>17910879, >>17910960 PF: Rogue Japanese Pilot?
>>17910966 Anyone tried pixelknot or steganography tools on these pepes going around after musk posted?
>>17910976, >>17910963, >>17911005 The House approves the National Defense Authorization Act
>>17911008, >>17911092, >>17911025 A felony warrant was issued for Sam Brinton, a deputy assistant secretary, sources said.
>>17911022 Dr. Andrew Huff Exposes Gain of Function Precedent For Medical Counter Measure
>>17911052 Pentagon awards $9 billion in cloud computing deals to Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle
>>17911053 So why isn't Dorsey in jail right now?
>>17911073 Has it really been 4 DECADES since anyone was arrested for lying to Congress???
>>17911101 HHS (fed gov Health & Human Services) has bought Yale by $1.9 Billion since the start of Covid. Plus $600 million a year.
>>17911088 ARE VACCINATED INDIVIDUALS A THREAT TO THE UNVACCINATED?
>>17911106, >>17911110 How about NOT shadow banning at all Elon??? You know, like REAL FREE SPEECH!!!
>>17911143 #21950
#21949
>>17909629, >>17909633, >>17909643, >>17909653, >>17909657, >>17909670, >>17909676, >>17909707, >>17909727, >>17909738, >>17909743, >>17909747, >>17909759, >>17909762, >>17909774, >>17909790, >>17909802, >>17909814, >>17909824, >>17909829, >>17909834, >>17909839, >>17909842, >>17909854, >>17909864, >>17909873, >>17909892, >>17909899, >>17909903, >>17909914, >>17909921, >>17909931, >>17909937, >>17909948, >>17909980, >>17909991, >>17909997, >>17910009, >>17910034 twitter release
>>17909649 MAID IN CANADA.
>>17909650 THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES PART TWO. TWITTER'S SECRET BLACKLISTS.
>>17909694 #TwitterFiles2 LIVE COVERAGE
>>17909698 Ron Paul Liberty Report 8 DEC 22
>>17909719 North Korean state TV airs its first EVER South Korea football match - the Seoul side's 4-1 drubbing by Brazil
>>17909724 poor Maggie
>>17909731 Schitt is full of fake shit, trying to make up statistics opposed the statistic genius Elon
>>17909793 Black Rock. They were a major investor in FTX. You know the crypto dweeb company that can't account for 10 BILLION dollars missing.
>>17909838 Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX has ignored the Senate's request, missing tonight's deadline and setting up the possibility of a subpoena
>>17909847, >>17909881 Reforming the Classification System: Challenges, Approaches, and Priorities vid
>>17909878 Documents Reveal Secret Blacklists and Censorship of Conservative Users - Something former Owner Jack Dorsey Said Was Not Happening
>>17909969 PF stuffs
>>17910027 refresher: Project Veritas exposes Twitter employee explaining censorship.
>>17910056 The FTC's Effort to Block Microsoft's Activision Acquisition Will Test Biden's Antitrust Legacy
>>17910059 Merkel's 'confession' may be grounds for tribunal - Moscow/evidence that the West had orchestrated hostilities in Ukraine
>>17910142 A WASTE OF TIME, ZELENKEY 'PERSON OF THE YEAR'
>>17910148, >>17910294 Kevin McCarthy's Top Advisor Makes Millions as a Big Tech Lobbyist
>>17910175 Matt & Bari has to release the discussions on banning President Trump! All of them, all people and politicians involved, from every level and every country. This was the CRIME of the century, literally!
>>17910205 the UK is going under lockdown due to unions, the army will be deployed to cover every union striking in a co-ordinated action
>>17910232 How long until we find out that "Visibility Filtering" was done across platforms...
>>17910241 Down she goes The gray lady falls Trump was right
>>17910253 NASA Taps Collins Aerospace to Develop New Space Station Spacesuits
>>17910255 Aussie: EPA finds six stockpiles and 3000 tonnes of hidden Coles, Woolworths plastic bags
>>17910309 @RepAndyBiggsAZ I am running for House Speaker to change the trajectory of the Republican Party.
>>17910326 NASA loses contact with ICON atmosphere-studying satellite in Earth orbit
>>17910329 @elonmusk Twitter is working on a software update that will show your true account status, so you know clearly if you've been shadowbanned, the reason why and how to appeal
>>17910330 Female protesters in Iran shot in faces, breasts and genitals, medics say
>>17910349 Yes, Twitter mods can read your private messages.
>>17910375 #21949
#21948
>>17908833 January 6 committee considers criminal referrals for at least 4 others besides Trump
>>17908849 San Francisco police permitted to use militarised robots armed with explosives as last resort in emergency situations
>>17908864 Multiple people injured in explosion at Iowa plant
>>17908865 Watch Falcon 9 launch the @OneWeb 1 mission to low-Earth orbit
>>17908911, >>17909059, >>17909348, >>17909526, >>17909572 Bridge between media, FBI/DOJ, HRC
>>17908919 Refresher: 1998 Kay Griggs, Former Marine Colonel's Wife Talks Again About Military Assassin Squads, Drug Running… Within The Highest Levels Of U.S. Military And Government.
>>17908950 Bankman-Fried 'subpoena is definitely on the table'
>>17908956 Project Veritas Undercover Highlights Chicago School Dean Bragging About Sharing Sex Toys with Minors in Classroom
>>17908961 Texas Prepares to Bring Down the Hammer on BlackRock Over Destructive ESG Adherence
>>17908993 in #Brazil. Stock up on food, water and meds for 15-30 days. #MartialLaw and #Military are already on the streets
>>17909000 @25thID GO ARMY, BEAT NAVY!
>>17909028 @PacificSubs Throwback Thursday (2022): USS Illinois (SSN 786) surfaces in the Beaufort Sea March 2022, kicking off Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2022.
>>17908943 Weiner laptop connections
>>17909045 Biden Climate Czar John Kerry Says American Taxpayer Money Should be Used to Pay Other Countries Climate Reparations
>>17909046 Project Veritas: Broken immigration system sparking child slave labour
>>17909062 DOJ seeks contempt of court charges against Trump for not complying with subpoena
>>17909064 FDA Says Ivermectin Doesn't Work Against COVID-19 but Points to Studies That Show It Does
>>17909066 FTC to sue Microsoft to block purchase of Activision
>>17909079 The Saudis helped broker the prisoner swap of Brittney Griner for Viktor Bout ONLY AFTER the White House ended its lawsuit against Mohammed bin Salman for murdering Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi.
>>17909094 @USNavy Hallo!
>>17909095 GOP revolt in SC Won't support RINOS
>>17909108 LCN Headlines 021 - Placebo Power Edition
>>17909136 @snowden on DEA using spyware against Americans abroad
>>17909168, >>17909181 Putin vows to continue hitting Ukraine's power grid, war crime?
>>17909185, >>17909527 60 mins propaganda on Victor Bout/the stories and names he can sing huh
>>17909207, >>17909229 molecular mimicry and cross-reactivity between peptides common to SARS-CoV-2 and tumor-related proteins might cause/contribute to cancer epidemics worldwide in the next future./ivermectin cures
>>17909209 Here's How The CDC Used A Backchannel With Twitter To Control The COVID-19 Narrative
>>17909210 FDA authorizes Covid omicron vaccines for children as young as 6 months old
>>17909220 FDA expected to decide on Pfizer RSV vaccine for older adults by May 2023
>>17909241 What you're actually permitting when clicking "I'm not a robot"
>>17909266 Celine Dion, 54, is diagnosed with incurable neurological disease: Stiff Person Syndrome
>>17909274 House passes respect for marriage act, how can GOP rule with slim majority?
>>17909278, >>17909280, >>17909286 Maggie Haberman was walked out of NTY
>>17909285 gonzales vs google - supreme court case over section 230 (protections for online service providers, including websites and other online platforms).
>>17909304 Narrative Control
>>17909313 Great Reset - NWO
>>17909316 Bannons War Room watch this to know whats going on in South America
>>17909325 New Texas bill would ban social media for children over concerns about mental health
>>17909338 17:36=17 GOP tired of losing past time to show voters tha we're ready to lead
>>17909351 All child abuse charges against former swim coach Kyle Daniels dropped
>>17909360 Arizona Faced a Similar Contentious Gubernatorial Race in 1916 That Dragged Out with Accusations of Voter Fraud
>>17909376 Warren Mundine calls Melbourne council 'a disgrace' for cancelling Australia Day, hits out at corporate Australia for their one-sided support of Voice to Parliament
>>17909383, >>17909409, >>17909502 Sen. Ron Johnson Hears from Experts and Medical Professionals on COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy and Safety
>>17909440 Biden Moving 'Full Speed Ahead' with Ending Title 42, Inviting Flood of Illegal Immigration
>>17909447 ICE Apologizes For 'Miscalculation' Of Illegal Immigrant Data After DCNF Exposes Major Errors
>>17909460 Xi Inks Tens Of Billions In Deals With Saudis, From Huawei Cloud-Computing To Expanded Military Ties
>>17909504 ECW: Reforming the Classification System: Challenges, Approaches, and Priorities
>>17909508 @mtaibbi Start your engines...
>>17909511, >>17909346, >>17909327, >>17909452, >>17909467 Pfizer's big money vaccine contracts with the DoD, 2022 and prior
>>17909529, >>17909538, >>17909583 @bariweiss twitters secret black lists
>>17909604 #21948
#21947
>>17908128, >>17908206, >>17908239 MASSIVE show of people on Copacabana Beach in Rio saying the Lord's Prayer?
>>17908159 Speculation/certainty on how AIDS was brought to the South Pacific
>>17908176 German authorities predict a second wave of arrests after far-right extremist group allegedly plotted to overthrow government
>>17908186 Wikipedia changes Peru's Castillo's party from Marxist to Conservative
>>17908196, >>17908293 Who are 'the Jews' a puppet for? Who does the ADL really take their orders from?
>>17908233 Birth is a natural non-emergency process. Medicalizing birth has opened the door to fuckery
>>17908241, >>17908476 According to this, Hunter was in NY yesterday
>>17908285 CENSORED: Here Are The Crimes They Are Hiding From You | Rudy Giuliani
>>17908299, >>17908309 Al Gore 'Rips Into' Vanguard After Defection From Climate Group
>>17908305, >>17908441, >>17908456, >>17908465, >>17908616 DARPA openly working on 'Wireless Energy Web' [POWER] moar
>>17908310, >>17908362 Pathetic virtue signaling Watermelon Head Schiff tweet claims get NEUTRALIZED by Musk's reply
>>17908358 someone had flashed a watch time then we have Mrs. Herridge posting pens dec 2nd 7th
>>17908373, >>17908400 @POTATO tries to buy the union vote with The Butch Lewis Act
>>17908401 Kyrie Irving covers nikes with I AM FREE, THANK YOU GOD… I AM
>>17908415, >>17908423, >>17908434, >>17908682, >>17908714 Kanye West responds to Ari Emanuel's op-ed on rapper's anti-Semitic comments
>>17908425 Eric Adams stands by AG Letitia James as harass scandal spirals - New York Post
>>17908261, >>17908371, >>17908402, >>17908496, >>17908429 Tinnitus / not tinnitus, Tensor tympani informational dig
>>17908445, >>17908618 re: Grassley's Washington Monument tweet
>>17908608 BUFFALO MASS SHOOTING VICTIM PATENTED HYDROGEN SYSTEM FOR CARS
>>17908680 Prosecutor drops charges against Red Rose Rescuers after judge agrees to use of 'unusual' defense
>>17908767 RE: Sussman Baker
>>17908811 Paul Whelan tells CNN he is 'disappointed' that more has not been done to secure his release
>>17910600 #21947
Previously Collected
>>17906595 #21944, >>17907359 #21945, >>17908096 #21946
>>17904345 #21941, >>17905136 #21942, >>17905905 #21943
>>17902266 #21938, >>17903033 #21939, >>17904157 #21940
>>17896369 #21935, >>17897135 #21936, >>17898917 #21937
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#17910408 at 2022-12-09 02:52:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21950: The Webs We Weave @Jack EditionQ Research Ge
International Q Research Threads
>>17453586 ---------------- Australia #26
>>17722898 ---------------- Canada #38
>>16694358 ---------------- France #7
>>17595232 ---------------- Germany #104
>>17726021 ---------------- Japan #8
>>16694250 ---------------- Nederland #10
>>17784579 ---------------- QAJF #1
>>17352350 ---------------- Scotland #8
>>17705335 ---------------- South Africa #10
>>17722137 ---------------- UK #49
>>17631245 ---------------- Vatican #6
GLOBALS
for Anons: bunker = https://endchan.gg/qrbunker; ban lifts >>17241201
Posting guidelines: no naked adults near kids; report violent threats
How to Manually Change DNS >>17720708, >>17722850
How anons can help with current posting problems >>17722828 thru >>17722832
Jim W on attacks, Proto, security & keeping 8kun in business >>17754996
PROTO Pass information: >>17799211, >>17798916, >>17806389, >>17826144 NEW
for Bakers: how to bake/e-bake >>17322493, >>17485628, >>17322317
formatting Q posts: >>17835052, Baker's Lite JS: >>17241444
baking range: @75 up to 751 >>17728642
NOTABLES ARE NOT ENDORSEMENTS
#21949
>>17909629, >>17909633, >>17909643, >>17909653, >>17909657, >>17909670, >>17909676, >>17909707, >>17909727, >>17909738, >>17909743, >>17909747, >>17909759, >>17909762, >>17909774, >>17909790, >>17909802, >>17909814, >>17909824, >>17909829, >>17909834, >>17909839, >>17909842, >>17909854, >>17909864, >>17909873, >>17909892, >>17909899, >>17909903, >>17909914, >>17909921, >>17909931, >>17909937, >>17909948, >>17909980, >>17909991, >>17909997, >>17910009, >>17910034 twitter release
>>17909649 MAID IN CANADA.
>>17909650 THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES PART TWO. TWITTER'S SECRET BLACKLISTS.
>>17909694 #TwitterFiles2 LIVE COVERAGE
>>17909698 Ron Paul Liberty Report 8 DEC 22
>>17909719 North Korean state TV airs its first EVER South Korea football match - the Seoul side's 4-1 drubbing by Brazil
>>17909724 poor Maggie
>>17909731 Schitt is full of fake shit, trying to make up statistics opposed the statistic genius Elon
>>17909793 Black Rock. They were a major investor in FTX. You know the crypto dweeb company that can't account for 10 BILLION dollars missing.
>>17909838 Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX has ignored the Senate's request, missing tonight's deadline and setting up the possibility of a subpoena
>>17909847, >>17909881 Reforming the Classification System: Challenges, Approaches, and Priorities vid
>>17909878 Documents Reveal Secret Blacklists and Censorship of Conservative Users - Something former Owner Jack Dorsey Said Was Not Happening
>>17909969 PF stuffs
>>17910027 refresher: Project Veritas exposes Twitter employee explaining censorship.
>>17910056 The FTC's Effort to Block Microsoft's Activision Acquisition Will Test Biden's Antitrust Legacy
>>17910059 Merkel's 'confession' may be grounds for tribunal - Moscow/evidence that the West had orchestrated hostilities in Ukraine
>>17910142 A WASTE OF TIME, ZELENKEY 'PERSON OF THE YEAR'
>>17910148, >>17910294 Kevin McCarthy's Top Advisor Makes Millions as a Big Tech Lobbyist
>>17910175 Matt & Bari has to release the discussions on banning President Trump! All of them, all people and politicians involved, from every level and every country. This was the CRIME of the century, literally!
>>17910205 the UK is going under lockdown due to unions, the army will be deployed to cover every union striking in a co-ordinated action
>>17910232 How long until we find out that "Visibility Filtering" was done across platforms...
>>17910241 Down she goes The gray lady falls Trump was right
>>17910253 NASA Taps Collins Aerospace to Develop New Space Station Spacesuits
>>17910255 Aussie: EPA finds six stockpiles and 3000 tonnes of hidden Coles, Woolworths plastic bags
>>17910309 @RepAndyBiggsAZ I am running for House Speaker to change the trajectory of the Republican Party.
>>17910326 NASA loses contact with ICON atmosphere-studying satellite in Earth orbit
>>17910329 @elonmusk Twitter is working on a software update that will show your true account status, so you know clearly if you've been shadowbanned, the reason why and how to appeal
>>17910330 Female protesters in Iran shot in faces, breasts and genitals, medics say
>>17910349 Yes, Twitter mods can read your private messages.
>>17910375 #21949
#21948
>>17908833 January 6 committee considers criminal referrals for at least 4 others besides Trump
>>17908849 San Francisco police permitted to use militarised robots armed with explosives as last resort in emergency situations
>>17908864 Multiple people injured in explosion at Iowa plant
>>17908865 Watch Falcon 9 launch the @OneWeb 1 mission to low-Earth orbit
>>17908911, >>17909059, >>17909348, >>17909526, >>17909572 Bridge between media, FBI/DOJ, HRC
>>17908919 Refresher: 1998 Kay Griggs, Former Marine Colonel's Wife Talks Again About Military Assassin Squads, Drug Running… Within The Highest Levels Of U.S. Military And Government.
>>17908950 Bankman-Fried 'subpoena is definitely on the table'
>>17908956 Project Veritas Undercover Highlights Chicago School Dean Bragging About Sharing Sex Toys with Minors in Classroom
>>17908961 Texas Prepares to Bring Down the Hammer on BlackRock Over Destructive ESG Adherence
>>17908993 in #Brazil. Stock up on food, water and meds for 15-30 days. #MartialLaw and #Military are already on the streets
>>17909000 @25thID GO ARMY, BEAT NAVY!
>>17909028 @PacificSubs Throwback Thursday (2022): USS Illinois (SSN 786) surfaces in the Beaufort Sea March 2022, kicking off Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2022.
>>17908943 Weiner laptop connections
>>17909045 Biden Climate Czar John Kerry Says American Taxpayer Money Should be Used to Pay Other Countries Climate Reparations
>>17909046 Project Veritas: Broken immigration system sparking child slave labour
>>17909062 DOJ seeks contempt of court charges against Trump for not complying with subpoena
>>17909064 FDA Says Ivermectin Doesn't Work Against COVID-19 but Points to Studies That Show It Does
>>17909066 FTC to sue Microsoft to block purchase of Activision
>>17909079 The Saudis helped broker the prisoner swap of Brittney Griner for Viktor Bout ONLY AFTER the White House ended its lawsuit against Mohammed bin Salman for murdering Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi.
>>17909094 @USNavy Hallo!
>>17909095 GOP revolt in SC Won't support RINOS
>>17909108 LCN Headlines 021 - Placebo Power Edition
>>17909136 @snowden on DEA using spyware against Americans abroad
>>17909168, >>17909181 Putin vows to continue hitting Ukraine's power grid, war crime?
>>17909185, >>17909527 60 mins propaganda on Victor Bout/the stories and names he can sing huh
>>17909207, >>17909229 molecular mimicry and cross-reactivity between peptides common to SARS-CoV-2 and tumor-related proteins might cause/contribute to cancer epidemics worldwide in the next future./ivermectin cures
>>17909209 Here's How The CDC Used A Backchannel With Twitter To Control The COVID-19 Narrative
>>17909210 FDA authorizes Covid omicron vaccines for children as young as 6 months old
>>17909220 FDA expected to decide on Pfizer RSV vaccine for older adults by May 2023
>>17909241 What you're actually permitting when clicking "I'm not a robot"
>>17909266 Celine Dion, 54, is diagnosed with incurable neurological disease: Stiff Person Syndrome
>>17909274 House passes respect for marriage act, how can GOP rule with slim majority?
>>17909278, >>17909280, >>17909286 Maggie Haberman was walked out of NTY
>>17909285 gonzales vs google - supreme court case over section 230 (protections for online service providers, including websites and other online platforms).
>>17909304 Narrative Control
>>17909313 Great Reset - NWO
>>17909316 Bannons War Room watch this to know whats going on in South America
>>17909325 New Texas bill would ban social media for children over concerns about mental health
>>17909338 17:36=17 GOP tired of losing past time to show voters tha we're ready to lead
>>17909351 All child abuse charges against former swim coach Kyle Daniels dropped
>>17909360 Arizona Faced a Similar Contentious Gubernatorial Race in 1916 That Dragged Out with Accusations of Voter Fraud
>>17909376 Warren Mundine calls Melbourne council 'a disgrace' for cancelling Australia Day, hits out at corporate Australia for their one-sided support of Voice to Parliament
>>17909383, >>17909409, >>17909502 Sen. Ron Johnson Hears from Experts and Medical Professionals on COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy and Safety
>>17909440 Biden Moving 'Full Speed Ahead' with Ending Title 42, Inviting Flood of Illegal Immigration
>>17909447 ICE Apologizes For 'Miscalculation' Of Illegal Immigrant Data After DCNF Exposes Major Errors
>>17909460 Xi Inks Tens Of Billions In Deals With Saudis, From Huawei Cloud-Computing To Expanded Military Ties
>>17909504 ECW: Reforming the Classification System: Challenges, Approaches, and Priorities
>>17909508 @mtaibbi Start your engines...
>>17909511, >>17909346, >>17909327, >>17909452, >>17909467 Pfizer's big money vaccine contracts with the DoD, 2022 and prior
>>17909529, >>17909538, >>17909583 @bariweiss twitters secret black lists
>>17909604 #21948
#21947
>>17908128, >>17908206, >>17908239 MASSIVE show of people on Copacabana Beach in Rio saying the Lord's Prayer?
>>17908159 Speculation/certainty on how AIDS was brought to the South Pacific
>>17908176 German authorities predict a second wave of arrests after far-right extremist group allegedly plotted to overthrow government
>>17908186 Wikipedia changes Peru's Castillo's party from Marxist to Conservative
>>17908196, >>17908293 Who are 'the Jews' a puppet for? Who does the ADL really take their orders from?
>>17908233 Birth is a natural non-emergency process. Medicalizing birth has opened the door to fuckery
>>17908241, >>17908476 According to this, Hunter was in NY yesterday
>>17908285 CENSORED: Here Are The Crimes They Are Hiding From You | Rudy Giuliani
>>17908299, >>17908309 Al Gore 'Rips Into' Vanguard After Defection From Climate Group
>>17908305, >>17908441, >>17908456, >>17908465, >>17908616 DARPA openly working on 'Wireless Energy Web' [POWER] + moar
>>17908310, >>17908362 Pathetic virtue signaling Watermelon Head Schiff tweet claims get NEUTRALIZED by Musk's reply
>>17908358 someone had flashed a watch time then we have Mrs. Herridge posting pens dec 2nd + 7th
>>17908373, >>17908400 @POTATO tries to buy the union vote with The Butch Lewis Act
>>17908401 Kyrie Irving covers nikes with I AM FREE, THANK YOU GOD… I AM
>>17908415, >>17908423, >>17908434, >>17908682, >>17908714 Kanye West responds to Ari Emanuel's op-ed on rapper's anti-Semitic comments
>>17908425 Eric Adams stands by AG Letitia James as harass scandal spirals - New York Post
>>17908261, >>17908371, >>17908402, >>17908496, >>17908429 Tinnitus / not tinnitus, Tensor tympani informational dig
>>17908445, >>17908618 re: Grassley's Washington Monument tweet
>>17908608 BUFFALO MASS SHOOTING VICTIM PATENTED HYDROGEN SYSTEM FOR CARS
>>17908680 Prosecutor drops charges against Red Rose Rescuers after judge agrees to use of 'unusual' defense
>>17908767 RE: Sussman + Baker
>>17908811 Paul Whelan tells CNN he is 'disappointed' that more has not been done to secure his release
>>17910600 #21947
Previously Collected
>>17906595 #21944, >>17907359 #21945, >>17908096 #21946
>>17904345 #21941, >>17905136 #21942, >>17905905 #21943
>>17902266 #21938, >>17903033 #21939, >>17904157 #21940
>>17896369 #21935, >>17897135 #21936, >>17898917 #21937
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#17909613 at 2022-12-09 00:43:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21949: A Prayer Is Called For: Maggie Was Walked Out Of NYT Edition
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>>16694358 ---------------- France #7
>>17595232 ---------------- Germany #104
>>17726021 ---------------- Japan #8
>>16694250 ---------------- Nederland #10
>>17784579 ---------------- QAJF #1
>>17352350 ---------------- Scotland #8
>>17705335 ---------------- South Africa #10
>>17722137 ---------------- UK #49
>>17631245 ---------------- Vatican #6
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NOTABLES ARE NOT ENDORSEMENTS
#21948
>>17908833 January 6 committee considers criminal referrals for at least 4 others besides Trump
>>17908849 San Francisco police permitted to use militarised robots armed with explosives as last resort in emergency situations
>>17908864 Multiple people injured in explosion at Iowa plant
>>17908865 Watch Falcon 9 launch the @OneWeb 1 mission to low-Earth orbit
>>17908911, >>17909059, >>17909348, >>17909526, >>17909572 Bridge between media, FBI/DOJ, HRC
>>17908919 Refresher: 1998 Kay Griggs, Former Marine Colonel's Wife Talks Again About Military Assassin Squads, Drug Running… Within The Highest Levels Of U.S. Military And Government.
>>17908950 Bankman-Fried 'subpoena is definitely on the table'
>>17908956 Project Veritas Undercover Highlights Chicago School Dean Bragging About Sharing Sex Toys with Minors in Classroom
>>17908961 Texas Prepares to Bring Down the Hammer on BlackRock Over Destructive ESG Adherence
>>17908993 in #Brazil. Stock up on food, water and meds for 15-30 days. #MartialLaw and #Military are already on the streets
>>17909000 @25thID GO ARMY, BEAT NAVY!
>>17909028 @PacificSubs Throwback Thursday (2022): USS Illinois (SSN 786) surfaces in the Beaufort Sea March 2022, kicking off Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2022.
>>17908943 Weiner laptop connections
>>17909045 Biden Climate Czar John Kerry Says American Taxpayer Money Should be Used to Pay Other Countries Climate Reparations
>>17909046 Project Veritas: Broken immigration system sparking child slave labour
>>17909062 DOJ seeks contempt of court charges against Trump for not complying with subpoena
>>17909064 FDA Says Ivermectin Doesn't Work Against COVID-19 but Points to Studies That Show It Does
>>17909066 FTC to sue Microsoft to block purchase of Activision
>>17909079 The Saudis helped broker the prisoner swap of Brittney Griner for Viktor Bout ONLY AFTER the White House ended its lawsuit against Mohammed bin Salman for murdering Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi.
>>17909094 @USNavy Hallo! 👋 🇩🇪
>>17909095 GOP revolt in SC Won't support RINOS
>>17909108 LCN Headlines 021 - Placebo Power Edition
>>17909136 @snowden on DEA using spyware against Americans abroad
>>17909168, >>17909181 Putin vows to continue hitting Ukraine's power grid, war crime?
>>17909185, >>17909527 60 mins propaganda on Victor Bout/the stories and names he can sing huh
>>17909207, >>17909229 molecular mimicry and cross-reactivity between peptides common to SARS-CoV-2 and tumor-related proteins might cause/contribute to cancer epidemics worldwide in the next future./ivermectin cures
>>17909209 Here's How The CDC Used A Backchannel With Twitter To Control The COVID-19 Narrative
>>17909210 FDA authorizes Covid omicron vaccines for children as young as 6 months old
>>17909220 FDA expected to decide on Pfizer RSV vaccine for older adults by May 2023
>>17909241 What you're actually permitting when clicking "I'm not a robot"
>>17909266 Celine Dion, 54, is diagnosed with incurable neurological disease: Stiff Person Syndrome
>>17909274 House passes respect for marriage act, how can GOP rule with slim majority?
>>17909278, >>17909280, >>17909286 Maggie Haberman was walked out of NTY
>>17909285 gonzales vs google - supreme court case over section 230 (protections for online service providers, including websites and other online platforms).
>>17909304 Narrative Control
>>17909313 Great Reset - NWO
>>17909316 Bannons War Room watch this to know whats going on in South America
>>17909325 New Texas bill would ban social media for children over concerns about mental health
>>17909338 17:36=17 GOP tired of losing past time to show voters tha we're ready to lead
>>17909351 All child abuse charges against former swim coach Kyle Daniels dropped
>>17909360 Arizona Faced a Similar Contentious Gubernatorial Race in 1916 That Dragged Out with Accusations of Voter Fraud
>>17909376 Warren Mundine calls Melbourne council 'a disgrace' for cancelling Australia Day, hits out at corporate Australia for their one-sided support of Voice to Parliament
>>17909383, >>17909409, >>17909502 Sen. Ron Johnson Hears from Experts and Medical Professionals on COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy and Safety
>>17909440 Biden Moving 'Full Speed Ahead' with Ending Title 42, Inviting Flood of Illegal Immigration
>>17909447 ICE Apologizes For 'Miscalculation' Of Illegal Immigrant Data After DCNF Exposes Major Errors
>>17909460 Xi Inks Tens Of Billions In Deals With Saudis, From Huawei Cloud-Computing To Expanded Military Ties
>>17909504 ECW: Reforming the Classification System: Challenges, Approaches, and Priorities
>>17909508 @mtaibbi Start your engines...
>>17909511, >>17909346, >>17909327, >>17909452, >>17909467 Pfizer's big money vaccine contracts with the DoD, 2022 and prior
>>17909529, >>17909538, >>17909583 @bariweiss twitters secret black lists
>>17909604 #21948
#21947 TBC
#21946
>>17907370 DOUGH
>>17907388, >>17907426 Call for Counter - ADL going after Ye
>>17907413 @PowerUSAID Young leaders like USAID-supported @WeareEDYN are standing up against Gender-based Violence (GBV).
>>17907416 @mattgaetz Establishment Republicans love burning cash on losing candidates
>>17907430 @leezeldin The Republican Party needs to immediately get far more engaged in every city
>>17907438 Biden releasing nearly $36 billion to aid pensions of union workers
>>17907449 Tavistock gender identity clinic is closing: what happens next?
>>17907450 @atensnut They keep saying the first arrest will shock the world. At this point... any arrest would shock the world.
>>17907458 @PapiTrumpo Democrats don't give a shit about you. Republicans don't give a shit about you. America First IS YOU!!! #WeThePeople
>>17907480, >>17907509 Julie Jelly's complete thread, guess who else was involved, Strzok and Page, etc
>>17907507 In Brazilian Portuguese, Coelho means "Rabbit"! (Grasses Anon)
>>17907524 Iran arrests Jewish citizens amid protests
>>17907529 Mamabears Protect the Children
>>17907550 Anon thinking again, Just figured out why Kanye (or YE) recently went on air with a black mask, a NET and and YAHOO.
>>17907557 Jim Jordan: Here's what FBI whistleblowers are telling me
>>17907603 The Boy in the Box was finally identified after 65 years. His name is Joseph Augustus Varelli.
>>17907605 Power Grid Attacks on the rise.
>>17907618 Fox meme template
>>17907674 Same-Sex Marriage Bill Threatening Religious Freedom Heads to Biden's Desk
>>17907690 SICK: Mattel's "American Girl" Publishes Book Pushing Puberty Blockers, Gender Transitioning To 3-12 Year Olds
>>17907700 Dozens of 'foreign mercenaries' killed in Ukraine - Russia
>>17907705 Anon opines #Excalibur (Cap)
>>17907709 #OTD in 1943, the U.S. Navy unleashed one of the heaviest single salvos in the history of naval warfare.
>>17907714 So FBI used Signal and Teleporter apps to speak with big tech. Would twitter have these records.
>>17907721 Live Update from Tampa: Retired Green Beret Jeremy Brown's Attorney: FBI "Planted" Evidence In His Trial
>>17907744 The people that didn't show up to The New York Times today should never show up, stay out forever~~It's Fake News!
>>17907765 Anon reminder shitposting is essential work.
>>17907771 Anon points out the Groomers Grooming - Groomer's are Super Pissed about the Dean of Groomers being exposed as a Groomer at a School for Groomers
>>17907772 CDC and Census Bureau had Direct Access to Twitter Portal Where they Could Censor at Will
>>17907784 How to be a proper Nazi?!
>>17907790 Brazilian Native Tribal Chief Endorses Donald Trump and Jesus Christ
>>17907801 State Dept Dodges Daily Caller Reporter's Question On CCP Election Interference Through TikTok
>>17907812 GOP Rep. Comer: I Fear Joe Biden Is 'Compromised' by Russia, China
>>17907817 US Congress passes landmark bill to protect same-sex marriage
>>17907833 Katie Hobbs Played a Personal Part in Censoring Election Information, and We Have the Receipt - Report
>>17907843, >>17907849, >>17907856 Project Veritas Exposes School Dean Grooming
>>17907860 The UNITED STATES 'Digital Dollar' is called 'FEDNOW' and launches in July 2023...
>>17907866 Feds Probing Bankman-Fried's Manipulation Of TerraUSD, Luna... Which Eventually Crushed FTX
>>17907875 @realDonaldTrump What kind of a deal is it to swap Brittney Griner, a basketball player who openly hates our Country, for the man known as "The Merchant of Death,"
>>17907877 QClock December 07, 2022 ver II Continuing Promise
>>17907891 The ADL issues statement declaring Ukraine's Azov Battalion no longer 'far-right'
>>17907777 Quads Confirm - How online are you?
>>17907910 Crucifixion Physics (CAP)
>>17907924, >>17907979 Pacific Island Nation of Vanuatu Has Been Knocked Offline For More Than a Month? #ChildSexTourism
>>17907929 FBI agent's testimony implicates headquarters brass in social media censorship
>>17907933 The 2024 presidential candidates have been officially announced.
>>17907934 Hunters Laptop has emails of him trying to hire a bouncer at a bar he frequented to kill someone?
>>17907954 Elvischan deposition PDF
>>17907967 Ukraine Earthquake at 0km, makes anon wonder
>>17907970 Thunderbolts of the Gods | Official Movie 23 Dec 2012
>>17907977 Merkel's Confession: Minsk Agreements Were Lie Aimed To Inflame War Against Russia
>>17907984 The FBI is asking about two websites in connection with last month's shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado
>>17908016 10 Most SURPRISING and DANGEROUS ingredients in vaccines, and the industry's poor explanations for why they're used
>>17908020 FDA Authorizes Updated COVID-19 Vaccines for Babies, Toddlers
>>17908022 Devil's Heaven: 20th Annual Summer Benefit
>>17908030 @realDonaldTrump Releasing Poll intel (Comm CHQ)
>>17908043 Stephen Richer-Maricopa Cnty Recorder (prsnl acct)
>>17907997 Pope cries for Ukraine: The pontiff struggles to speak as he is overcome with emotion #ActorsActing
>>17908065 Drone for Attempt to Strike at Russia Was Modernized With US Participation: Russian Diplomat
>>17908066 Kash with the missing (y) #8
>>17908074 Talmud and Jewish Values Are Now King of the Classroom?
>>17908096 #21946
Previously Collected
>>17906595 #21944, >>17907359 #21945
>>17904345 #21941, >>17905136 #21942, >>17905905 #21943
>>17902266 #21938, >>17903033 #21939, >>17904157 #21940
>>17896369 #21935, >>17897135 #21936, >>17898917 #21937
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#17909604 at 2022-12-09 00:42:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21948: Will The Merchant of Death Talk? Spinless With Balls Kneel? Edition
hold em for nb
#21948
>>17908833 January 6 committee considers criminal referrals for at least 4 others besides Trump
>>17908849 San Francisco police permitted to use militarised robots armed with explosives as last resort in emergency situations
>>17908864 Multiple people injured in explosion at Iowa plant
>>17908865 Watch Falcon 9 launch the @OneWeb 1 mission to low-Earth orbit
>>17908911, >>17909059, >>17909348, >>17909526, >>17909572 Bridge between media, FBI/DOJ, HRC
>>17908919 Refresher: 1998 Kay Griggs, Former Marine Colonel's Wife Talks Again About Military Assassin Squads, Drug Running… Within The Highest Levels Of U.S. Military And Government.
>>17908950 Bankman-Fried 'subpoena is definitely on the table'
>>17908956 Project Veritas Undercover Highlights Chicago School Dean Bragging About Sharing Sex Toys with Minors in Classroom
>>17908961 Texas Prepares to Bring Down the Hammer on BlackRock Over Destructive ESG Adherence
>>17908993 in #Brazil. Stock up on food, water and meds for 15-30 days. #MartialLaw and #Military are already on the streets
>>17909000 @25thID GO ARMY, BEAT NAVY!
>>17909028 @PacificSubs Throwback Thursday (2022): USS Illinois (SSN 786) surfaces in the Beaufort Sea March 2022, kicking off Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2022.
>>17908943 Weiner laptop connections
>>17909045 Biden Climate Czar John Kerry Says American Taxpayer Money Should be Used to Pay Other Countries Climate Reparations
>>17909046 Project Veritas: Broken immigration system sparking child slave labour
>>17909062 DOJ seeks contempt of court charges against Trump for not complying with subpoena
>>17909064 FDA Says Ivermectin Doesn't Work Against COVID-19 but Points to Studies That Show It Does
>>17909066 FTC to sue Microsoft to block purchase of Activision
>>17909079 The Saudis helped broker the prisoner swap of Brittney Griner for Viktor Bout ONLY AFTER the White House ended its lawsuit against Mohammed bin Salman for murdering Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi.
>>17909094 @USNavy Hallo! 👋 🇩🇪
>>17909095 GOP revolt in SC Won't support RINOS
>>17909108 LCN Headlines 021 - Placebo Power Edition
>>17909136 @snowden on DEA using spyware against Americans abroad
>>17909168, >>17909181 Putin vows to continue hitting Ukraine's power grid, war crime?
>>17909185, >>17909527 60 mins propaganda on Victor Bout/the stories and names he can sing huh
>>17909207, >>17909229 molecular mimicry and cross-reactivity between peptides common to SARS-CoV-2 and tumor-related proteins might cause/contribute to cancer epidemics worldwide in the next future./ivermectin cures
>>17909209 Here's How The CDC Used A Backchannel With Twitter To Control The COVID-19 Narrative
>>17909210 FDA authorizes Covid omicron vaccines for children as young as 6 months old
>>17909220 FDA expected to decide on Pfizer RSV vaccine for older adults by May 2023
>>17909241 What you're actually permitting when clicking "I'm not a robot"
>>17909266 Celine Dion, 54, is diagnosed with incurable neurological disease: Stiff Person Syndrome
>>17909274 House passes respect for marriage act, how can GOP rule with slim majority?
>>17909278, >>17909280, >>17909286 Maggie Haberman was walked out of NTY
>>17909285 gonzales vs google - supreme court case over section 230 (protections for online service providers, including websites and other online platforms).
>>17909304 Narrative Control
>>17909313 Great Reset - NWO
>>17909316 Bannons War Room watch this to know whats going on in South America
>>17909325 New Texas bill would ban social media for children over concerns about mental health
>>17909338 17:36=17 GOP tired of losing past time to show voters tha we're ready to lead
>>17909351 All child abuse charges against former swim coach Kyle Daniels dropped
>>17909360 Arizona Faced a Similar Contentious Gubernatorial Race in 1916 That Dragged Out with Accusations of Voter Fraud
>>17909376 Warren Mundine calls Melbourne council 'a disgrace' for cancelling Australia Day, hits out at corporate Australia for their one-sided support of Voice to Parliament
>>17909383, >>17909409, >>17909502 Sen. Ron Johnson Hears from Experts and Medical Professionals on COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy and Safety
>>17909440 Biden Moving 'Full Speed Ahead' with Ending Title 42, Inviting Flood of Illegal Immigration
>>17909447 ICE Apologizes For 'Miscalculation' Of Illegal Immigrant Data After DCNF Exposes Major Errors
>>17909460 Xi Inks Tens Of Billions In Deals With Saudis, From Huawei Cloud-Computing To Expanded Military Ties
>>17909504 ECW: Reforming the Classification System: Challenges, Approaches, and Priorities
>>17909508 @mtaibbi Start your engines...
>>17909511, >>17909346, >>17909327, >>17909452, >>17909467 Pfizer's big money vaccine contracts with the DoD, 2022 and prior
>>17909529, >>17909538, >>17909583 @bariweiss twitters secret black lists
#21948
#17909553 at 2022-12-09 00:34:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21948: Will The Merchant of Death Talk? Spinless With Balls Kneel? Edition
#21948
>>17908833 January 6 committee considers criminal referrals for at least 4 others besides Trump
>>17908849 San Francisco police permitted to use militarised robots armed with explosives as last resort in emergency situations
>>17908864 Multiple people injured in explosion at Iowa plant
>>17908865 Watch Falcon 9 launch the @OneWeb 1 mission to low-Earth orbit
>>17908911, >>17909059, >>17909348, >>17909526 Bridge between media, FBI/DOJ, HRC
>>17908919 Refresher: 1998 Kay Griggs, Former Marine Colonel's Wife Talks Again About Military Assassin Squads, Drug Running… Within The Highest Levels Of U.S. Military And Government.
>>17908950 Bankman-Fried 'subpoena is definitely on the table'
>>17908956 Project Veritas Undercover Highlights Chicago School Dean Bragging About Sharing Sex Toys with Minors in Classroom
>>17908961 Texas Prepares to Bring Down the Hammer on BlackRock Over Destructive ESG Adherence
>>17908993 in #Brazil. Stock up on food, water and meds for 15-30 days. #MartialLaw and #Military are already on the streets
>>17909000 @25thID GO ARMY, BEAT NAVY!
>>17909028 @PacificSubs Throwback Thursday (2022): USS Illinois (SSN 786) surfaces in the Beaufort Sea March 2022, kicking off Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2022.
>>17908943 Weiner laptop connections
>>17909045 Biden Climate Czar John Kerry Says American Taxpayer Money Should be Used to Pay Other Countries Climate Reparations
>>17909046 Project Veritas: Broken immigration system sparking child slave labour
>>17909062 DOJ seeks contempt of court charges against Trump for not complying with subpoena
>>17909064 FDA Says Ivermectin Doesn't Work Against COVID-19 but Points to Studies That Show It Does
>>17909066 FTC to sue Microsoft to block purchase of Activision
>>17909079 The Saudis helped broker the prisoner swap of Brittney Griner for Viktor Bout ONLY AFTER the White House ended its lawsuit against Mohammed bin Salman for murdering Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi.
>>17909094 @USNavy Hallo! 👋 🇩🇪
>>17909095 GOP revolt in SC Won't support RINOS
>>17909108 LCN Headlines 021 - Placebo Power Edition
>>17909136 @snowden on DEA using spyware against Americans abroad
>>17909168, >>17909181 Putin vows to continue hitting Ukraine's power grid, war crime?
>>17909185, >>17909527 60 mins propaganda on Victor Bout/the stories and names he can sing huh
>>17909207, >>17909229 molecular mimicry and cross-reactivity between peptides common to SARS-CoV-2 and tumor-related proteins might cause/contribute to cancer epidemics worldwide in the next future./ivermectin cures
>>17909209 Here's How The CDC Used A Backchannel With Twitter To Control The COVID-19 Narrative
>>17909210 FDA authorizes Covid omicron vaccines for children as young as 6 months old
>>17909220 FDA expected to decide on Pfizer RSV vaccine for older adults by May 2023
>>17909241 What you're actually permitting when clicking "I'm not a robot"
>>17909266 Celine Dion, 54, is diagnosed with incurable neurological disease: Stiff Person Syndrome
>>17909274 House passes respect for marriage act, how can GOP rule with slim majority?
>>17909278, >>17909280, >>17909286 Maggie Haberman was walked out of NTY
>>17909285 gonzales vs google - supreme court case over section 230 (protections for online service providers, including websites and other online platforms).
>>17909304 Narrative Control
>>17909313 Great Reset - NWO
>>17909316 Bannons War Room watch this to know whats going on in South America
>>17909325 New Texas bill would ban social media for children over concerns about mental health
>>17909338 17:36=17 GOP tired of losing past time to show voters tha we're ready to lead
>>17909351 All child abuse charges against former swim coach Kyle Daniels dropped
>>17909360 Arizona Faced a Similar Contentious Gubernatorial Race in 1916 That Dragged Out with Accusations of Voter Fraud
>>17909376 Warren Mundine calls Melbourne council 'a disgrace' for cancelling Australia Day, hits out at corporate Australia for their one-sided support of Voice to Parliament
>>17909383, >>17909409, >>17909502 Sen. Ron Johnson Hears from Experts and Medical Professionals on COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy and Safety
>>17909440 Biden Moving 'Full Speed Ahead' with Ending Title 42, Inviting Flood of Illegal Immigration
>>17909447 ICE Apologizes For 'Miscalculation' Of Illegal Immigrant Data After DCNF Exposes Major Errors
>>17909460 Xi Inks Tens Of Billions In Deals With Saudis, From Huawei Cloud-Computing To Expanded Military Ties
>>17909504 ECW: Reforming the Classification System: Challenges, Approaches, and Priorities
>>17909508 @mtaibbi Start your engines...
>>17909511, >>17909346, >>17909327, >>17909452, >>17909467 Pfizer's big money vaccine contracts with the DoD, 2022 and prior
>>17909529, >>17909538 @bariweiss twitters secret black lists
#17909410 at 2022-12-09 00:10:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21948: Will The Merchant of Death Talk? Spinless With Balls Kneel? Edition
@500
#21948
>>17908833 January 6 committee considers criminal referrals for at least 4 others besides Trump
>>17908849 San Francisco police permitted to use militarised robots armed with explosives as last resort in emergency situations
>>17908864 Multiple people injured in explosion at Iowa plant
>>17908865 Watch Falcon 9 launch the @OneWeb 1 mission to low-Earth orbit
>>17908911, >>17909059, >>17909348 Bridge between media, FBI/DOJ, HRC
>>17908919 Refresher: 1998 Kay Griggs, Former Marine Colonel's Wife Talks Again About Military Assassin Squads, Drug Running… Within The Highest Levels Of U.S. Military And Government.
>>17908950 Bankman-Fried 'subpoena is definitely on the table'
>>17908956 Project Veritas Undercover Highlights Chicago School Dean Bragging About Sharing Sex Toys with Minors in Classroom
>>17908961 Texas Prepares to Bring Down the Hammer on BlackRock Over Destructive ESG Adherence
>>17908993 in #Brazil. Stock up on food, water and meds for 15-30 days. #MartialLaw and #Military are already on the streets
>>17909000 @25thID GO ARMY, BEAT NAVY!
>>17909028 @PacificSubs Throwback Thursday (2022): USS Illinois (SSN 786) surfaces in the Beaufort Sea March 2022, kicking off Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2022.
>>17908943 Weiner laptop connections
>>17909045 Biden Climate Czar John Kerry Says American Taxpayer Money Should be Used to Pay Other Countries Climate Reparations
>>17909046 Project Veritas: Broken immigration system sparking child slave labour
>>17909062 DOJ seeks contempt of court charges against Trump for not complying with subpoena
>>17909064 FDA Says Ivermectin Doesn't Work Against COVID-19 but Points to Studies That Show It Does
>>17909066 FTC to sue Microsoft to block purchase of Activision
>>17909079 The Saudis helped broker the prisoner swap of Brittney Griner for Viktor Bout ONLY AFTER the White House ended its lawsuit against Mohammed bin Salman for murdering Washington Post reporter Jamal Khashoggi.
>>17909094 @USNavy Hallo! 👋 🇩🇪
>>17909095 GOP revolt in SC Won't support RINOS
>>17909108 LCN Headlines 021 - Placebo Power Edition
>>17909136 @snowden on DEA using spyware against Americans abroad
>>17909168, >>17909181 Putin vows to continue hitting Ukraine's power grid, war crime?
>>17909185 60 mins propaganda on Victor Bout
>>17909207, >>17909229 molecular mimicry and cross-reactivity between peptides common to SARS-CoV-2 and tumor-related proteins might cause/contribute to cancer epidemics worldwide in the next future./ivermectin cures
>>17909209 Here's How The CDC Used A Backchannel With Twitter To Control The COVID-19 Narrative
>>17909210 FDA authorizes Covid omicron vaccines for children as young as 6 months old
>>17909220 FDA expected to decide on Pfizer RSV vaccine for older adults by May 2023
>>17909241 What you're actually permitting when clicking "I'm not a robot"
>>17909266 Celine Dion, 54, is diagnosed with incurable neurological disease: Stiff Person Syndrome
>>17909274 House passes respect for marriage act, how can GOP rule with slim majority?
>>17909278, >>17909280, >>17909286 Maggie Haberman was walked out of NTY
>>17909285 gonzales vs google - supreme court case over section 230 (protections for online service providers, including websites and other online platforms).
>>17909304 Narrative Control
>>17909313 Great Reset - NWO
>>17909316 Bannons War Room watch this to know whats going on in South America
>>17909325 New Texas bill would ban social media for children over concerns about mental health
>>17909338 17:36=17 GOP tired of losing past time to show voters tha we're ready to lead
>>17909351 All child abuse charges against former swim coach Kyle Daniels dropped
>>17909360 Arizona Faced a Similar Contentious Gubernatorial Race in 1916 That Dragged Out with Accusations of Voter Fraud
>>17909376 Warren Mundine calls Melbourne council 'a disgrace' for cancelling Australia Day, hits out at corporate Australia for their one-sided support of Voice to Parliament
>>17909383 Sen. Ron Johnson Hears from Experts and Medical Professionals on COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy and Safety
#17909376 at 2022-12-09 00:06:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21948: Will The Merchant of Death Talk? Spinless With Balls Kneel? Edition
>>17909370
Warren Mundine calls Melbourne council 'a disgrace' for cancelling Australia Day, hits out at corporate Australia for their one-sided support of Voice to Parliament
Indigenous activist Nyunggai Warren Mundine says he's sick and tired of people who think they can "dictate to the Australian people what is Australia and what it is about."
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/Warren-Mundine-calls-melbourne-council-a-disgrace-for-cancelling-australia-day-hits-out-at-corporate-australia-for-their-onesided-support-of-voice-to-parliament/news-story/4f715b6f5d4e0f20f2b2238953d5d9a2
#17909370 at 2022-12-09 00:05:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21948: Will The Merchant of Death Talk? Spinless With Balls Kneel? Edition
==Warren Mundine calls Melbourne council 'a disgrace' for cancelling Australia Day, hits out at corporate Australia for their one-sided support of Voice to Parliament
Indigenous activist Nyunggai Warren Mundine says he's sick and tired of people who think they can "dictate to the Australian people what is Australia and what it is about."
8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (102)
#20545516 at 2024-03-10 08:19:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition
#34 - Part 5
Israel / Hamas Conflict - The Australian Perspective - Part 5
>>20266765 Clerics trigger hate-speech probe by NSW Premier Chris Minns - NSW Premier Chris Minns will tackle hate speech head-on with his government launching a wide-ranging review into the state's current legal protections given concerns over its effectiveness amid a raft of incendiary anti-Semitic sermons across southwest Sydney.
>>20272111 Video: Labor MP Julian Hill says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is 'hell-bent on formalising policy of apartheid' - Labor backbencher Julian Hill says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "hell-bent on formalising a policy of apartheid" and has called on Australia to fast-track formal recognition of a Palestinian state.
>>20272130 Ignorance the basis for poisonous prejudice - "Australia's character as a successful multicultural, multifaith, multiracial nation where everyone is equal is under threat, with anti-Semitic incidents up by over 700 per cent. Australian Jews are living in fear. How does a Middle Eastern conflict cause threats against fellow Australians? The answer is blatant anti-Semitism supported by lies and gaslighting that would make Goebbels blush. These bigots claim Israel is a colonial state; the Jews are settlers who've stolen Palestinian land and refuse a Palestinian state. The opposite is true. Jews are indigenous people of Israel and have lived there since before recorded history. In 700 to 600BC, their kingdoms were conquered; their homelands subject to repeated conquest and colonisation thereafter, including by the Romans, Byzantines, Arabs and Ottoman Empire. The creation of the modern state of Israel was an act of decolonisation." - Nyunggai Warren Mundine, Director of the Indigenous Forum, Centre for Independent Studies - theaustralian.com.au
>>20311665 Mardi Gras group Pride in Protest claims Zionist Jews are 'proud of genocide' - A Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras offshoot group has accused Zionist Jews of being "proud of genocide" and the "mass murder of children", hitting back at LGBTIQA+ Jewish group Day?enu, which earlier this month said it was reconsidering participating in this year's Mardi Gras because of concerns about safety.
>>20311675 Australia pauses funding for United Nations agency amid October 7 terror allegations - Australia has paused funding for a key United Nations agency in Gaza after allegations emerged some staff were involved in the October 7 attacks. On Friday, UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini revealed Israeli authorities had provided information about the alleged involvement of "several" employees in the attack. On Saturday, Australia's Foreign Minister, Senator Penny Wong, released a statement saying the allegations were "deeply concerning" and funding for the agency would be "temporarily paused".
>>20316774 'Unmask you': Premier Chris Minns' threat as Nazis gather in Sydney - NSW Premier Chris Minns has warned he is prepared to unmask people involved in the latest neo-Nazi gatherings in Sydney after police halted two demonstrations in less than 24 hours.
>>20344791 UN aid agency 'saving Gazan kids', says Penny Wong - Penny Wong has signalled she wants to quickly reinstate funding to the UN's aid agency in Gaza accused of aiding Hamas's October 7 massacre of Israelis, declaring it is "the only organisation" delivering assistance to 1.4 million desperate Palestinians.
>>20344826 Video: Video analysis finds no evidence of 'gas the Jews' being chanted at Sydney Opera House protest, despite witness statements - NSW Police say forensic analysis has found no evidence the phrase "gas the Jews" was chanted in videos circulating online from a pro-Palestinian rally at the Sydney Opera House in October.
>>20371174 Video: Nova Peris says Aboriginal flag 'misappropriated' by Palestine protesters - Former Labor senator Nova Peris has launched a campaign to reclaim the Aboriginal flag from the war in Gaza, arguing that Indigenous symbols and chants have been misappropriated at pro-Palestine rallies. Peris, who led the campaign to free the Aboriginal flag from copyright restrictions, said she was worried that Indigenous activists could be seen to be turning a blind eye to antisemitism.
>>20383178 Leak, doxxing of almost 600 Jewish creatives 'very distressing... with really serious consequences' - Federal Labor MP Josh Burns has called the doxxing of hundreds of Jewish creatives in a private WhatsApp group "very distressing", warning it could result in "really serious consequences". On Thursday, high-profile pro-Palestine activists, including feminist author Clementine Ford, began sharing on social media a link to a spreadsheet that had leaked the names, occupations and social media profiles of almost 600 Jewish creatives purportedly from the WhatsApp group.
#20371174 at 2024-02-07 08:03:53 (UTC+1)
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>>20098526
Nova Peris says Aboriginal flag 'misappropriated' by Palestine protesters
Paul Sakkal - February 7, 2024
Former Labor senator Nova Peris has launched a campaign to reclaim the Aboriginal flag from the war in Gaza, arguing that Indigenous symbols and chants have been misappropriated at pro-Palestine rallies.
Peris, who led the campaign to free the Aboriginal flag from copyright restrictions, said she was worried that Indigenous activists could be seen to be turning a blind eye to antisemitism.
Her remarks represent a new flashpoint in the sensitive debate over the war in Gaza that has opened up rifts across sport, politics, media and within progressive movements in the months since Hamas' terror attack and Israel's military response that has provoked international condemnation.
Peris, the first Aboriginal Olympic gold medallist and first Indigenous woman elected to federal parliament, is being backed by reconciliation leader Sean Gordon and Liberal MP Julian Leeser in disputing the argument that Israeli Jews are a settler-colonial force similar to British settlers in Australia.
In a social media video to be boosted by paid advertisements and influencers, Peris says Jewish Australians have been "the most committed" supporters of reconciliation.
"In recent times we've heard a lot in our national discourse in Australia about truth-telling, and it has mostly been in the context of my own people," she states in the clip, which is being backed by grassroots fundraising.
Funding for the campaign has been provided by Peris as well as Jewish, non-Jewish and Indigenous supporters, rather than organisations.
"I want to reciprocate by helping overturn a similar lie which is now being told against the Jewish people: that they have no connection to the land of Israel; that they are 'settler-colonialists'."
"I'm saddened to see our sacred Aboriginal flag, a flag which I fought so hard to be returned to the Aboriginal community, be misappropriated by Palestinian, anti-Israel and anti-Jewish groups in Australia."
"Who gave free, outright, prior and informed consent to use our flag for your cause? How can you be allowed to shout out 'F the Jews' while burning flags on the steps of the Sydney Opera House? How can we not call this out and stamp this out?"
Peris said it had become "trendy" to support the Palestinian cause but questioned the historical knowledge of some activists, some of whom she said relied too heavily on information gleaned from platforms such as TikTok.
Her views were rejected by Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe, who led this year's January 26 "Invasion Day" rallies which were this year heavily focused on Gaza.
"It's not up to one individual to decide what we do with our flag - it's up to the people. The people have spoken," Thorpe said.
Indigenous professor Chelsea Watego, a Mununjali and South Sea Island woman, said solidarity between the movements was not a new phenomenon.
"I would highly recommend that those critiquing Blackfulla-Palestinian solidarities engage with the intellectual work of mob who have a most intimate and sophisticated understanding of settler colonialism," she said.
Indigenous academic Marcia Langton last year said in an opinion piece in The Australian that it was false to say most Indigenous Australians felt solidarity with Palestinians, adding "most of us are aware of the complexity and that there is very little comparable in our respective situations, other than our humanity".
Leeser, the Liberal MP who quit Peter Dutton's front bench to campaign in favour of the Voice, said he disagreed with Peris on many issues but applauded her for taking a stand on "one of the moral issues of our time".
"I applaud Nova Peris, as well as Marcia Langton, Sean Gordon and Warren Mundine for standing with Jewish Australians during a time when antisemitism is on the rise," he said.
Peris, explaining her decision to advocate on the issue, said she had become increasingly uncomfortable with the anti-Israel movement in Australia since protestors chanted "f-ck the Jews" outside the Opera House two days after the October 7 terror attack that killed 1200 people.
An estimated 27,000 people in Gaza have died during Israel's retaliatory war.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/nova-peris-says-aboriginal-flag-misappropriated-by-palestine-protesters-20240206-p5f2qr.html
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#20306092 at 2024-01-26 14:25:35 (UTC+1)
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>>20299952
>>20306037
Invasion Day rally rife with anti-Australia sentiment
TRICIA RIVERA and ANGUS MCINTYRE - JANUARY 26, 2024
Invasion Day protesters have desecrated Australian flags and unfurled a banner imploring people to "kill the Australian in your head" on the country's national holiday in Melbourne.
About 35,000 protesters gathered outside state parliament on January 26, a day the rally's organisers describe as an "annual reminder of invasion, occupation and genocide".
Aboriginal and Palestinian supporters came together to combine their causes, with some protesters holding signs with the Palestinian mantra "from the river to the sea" written alongside the Aboriginal motto "always was, always will be (Aboriginal land)".
Free Palestine Melbourne, the group behind the weekly pro-Palestine marches in the CBD, told their followers that there would be no protest this Sunday and to instead join in on Invasion Day.
The crowd gathered for more than two hours to hear from elders and Indigenous activists who spoke on a range of issues including treaty, land rights and Aboriginal deaths in custody.
Some anti-Australia Day supporters held signs that read "kill the Australian in your head", a possible reference to the phrase "kill the cop in your head".
After learning of the banner, Victorian deputy Liberal leader David Southwick said he was "so sick of people telling us we should be ashamed to be Australian".
"Everyone has a right to free speech, but if people resort to violent rhetoric to demonstrate their beliefs, then their beliefs have no currency," he said.
"If Labor wants to change the date of Australia Day, they should be upfront about it, rather than leaving us feeling guilty to celebrate our national day."
Other signs had phrases such as "abolish Australia" and "the colony will fall" written on them, the latter of which being the same message that was spray painted on the Captain Cook monument that was sawn off in St Kilda on Thursday night.
Victoria Police told this masthead that while it was aware that banners may be offensive to some members of the community, they do not always constitute a criminal offence.
On the sidelines of the event, a small group of protesters were seen scheming to burn the Australian flag. One woman was observed spraying deodorant over the flag, while a man used a cigarette lighter to set it alight.
Two other protesters were also seen ripping apart another Australian flag before throwing it to the ground. Wurundjeri Elder Bill Nicholson, after his Welcome to Country, told the gathering that Australia had been settled by "devil worshippers".
"The government gains its authority from rape, murder and theft. What sort of sovereignty is that? The authority they have imposed over Aboriginal land for two centuries doesn't make any sense," he said.
Prominent Indigenous activist Gary Foley said this year's "Invasion Day" was historic due to the shared struggle with the Palestinian people.
"We have invited our Palestinian brothers and sisters to be here today as an act of solidarity," Mr Foley told the crowd.
"The Palestinian people are dispossessed in the same we are. The Palestinian people have been invaded and occupied."
Mr Foley invited Nasser Mashni, the Australian Palestine Advocacy Network president, to speak to the group.
"No coloniser has ever looked at the people that they colonised as human beings ... they look at us as someone or something to take advantage of, to kill, to steal, to murder and to rape," Mr Mashni said.
"I recognise that whilst I'm indigenous there, I'm a settler here," the APAN president added.
He attacked Warren Mundine and opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, telling them to "tear off the clothes of the coloniser and come back to your people".
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/invasion-day-rally-rife-with-antiaustralia-sentiment/news-story/58ec74d8c79843dbaaf51d964b148f5a
https://twitter.com/FPMelbourne/status/1750682953368457638
#20281804 at 2024-01-22 08:50:10 (UTC+1)
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'Indoctrination': Childcare kids told land stolen from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
ALEXI DEMETRIADI and NATASHA BITA - JANUARY 22, 2024
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Toddlers and pre-schoolers in some childcare centres are being taught that Australia was stolen from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, in ceremonies branded as "indoctrination'' on the eve of Australia Day.
More than 7000 schools and daycare centres have a formal "acknowledgement of country'' in place, which can include children singing or reciting that the land belonged to Indigenous people.
At SDN Children's Services Bluebell in the ACT, kindy kids are taught about "stolen land'' as they recite an Acknowledgement of Country each morning.
"The preschool children are used to acknowledging Country, and know they gather on Ngunnawal land, the place of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples,'' the centre states on its website.
"The foundation for this learning begins when the children enter the centre as infants.
"Now older, preschoolers participate in enquiry-based learning - the daily ritual of acknowledging Country is built upon with explicit teaching about stolen land.''
The SDN childcare centre is among 7097 schools and daycare centres that Reconciliation Australia has registered for Welcome to Country ceremonies, or that have Acknowledgement of Country statements displayed in classrooms or recited during school assemblies or morning greetings.
After some supermarkets dumped the sale of Australia Day merchandise this year, sensitivities over the January 26 date - which marks the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 - are causing some daycare centres to shy away from celebrations.
A leading provider of childcare resources, Aussie Childcare Network, has compiled a calendar of events that lists January 26 as "Yabun, celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures, Invasion Day, Survival Day, Australia Day".
The network suggests that centres could commemorate Australia Day by flying the Aboriginal flag at half-mast, observing a moment of silence, or including an Acknowledgement of Country in the morning, or even celebrating on a different date altogether.
NSW Libertarian Party MP John Ruddick said children were being "indoctrinated to feel ashamed of their country".
"Every nation has a national day to reflect on what's good about their homeland," he said.
"Seems to be only in Australia we have this ever-escalating culture war and now we're doing all we can to indoctrinate infants to be ashamed of their country."
Indigenous leader Warren Mundine - who campaigned against the Indigenous voice to parliament in last year's referendum - said childcare centres should not be caught up in "culture wars". "Don't they realise the largest group of Australians want to celebrate Australia, " he said. "The elite minority need to stop attacking Australia and Australians."
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#20281754 at 2024-01-22 08:15:41 (UTC+1)
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>>20281751
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Professor Wanna, from the Australian National University, said the choice of governor-general was "Albanese's decision".
"He takes the decision to cabinet ... gets it approved and they write to the King. They have to write six months before the announcement," Professor Wanna said. "(King) Charles may already know who has been nominated ... I suspect that letter's gone."
Professor Wanna said he thought a leading candidate for the job of governor-general was the current Prime Minister and Cabinet secretary Glyn Davis, whose wife, Margaret Gardner, is the Governor of Victoria. He suggested another safe appointment could be someone who has served on the High Court. One name mentioned in speculation has been ex-chief justice Susan Kiefel.
But Professor Wanna also argued that Mr Albanese may view a strong case for an Indigenous appointment following the failure of the voice referendum in 2023.
"I think it's feasible with the voice referendum, which he stuffed up, that he will angle for it," Professor Wanna said. "He will try and say we ought to, this could be the right time. It will set the agenda for that kind of appointment."
However, he warned that appointing people linked too closely with the political campaign for the voice - such as Professor Langton, Megan Davis or even current Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney - would be "quite contentious", Professor Wanna identified Professor Calma as a "pretty ideal candidate".
"He's very good on issues. He was part of the voice movement. But he didn't play a prominent political role. That would not be contentious," he said.
Professor Calma co-authored the July 2021 final report to the government on the design process for the voice along with Professor Langton, but argued over the weekend that reconciliation efforts in Australia were not dead and that race relations had not been irretrievably damaged because of the referendum result.
Leading Indigenous figure and key campaigner for the No campaign Warren Mundine said the priority should be for the government to appoint someone "able to do the job" and who could work with both sides of politics. "They are the ones who have got to be ?bipartisan with everyone," he said. "And they are about uniting the country."
However, Mr Mundine also said he would welcome an Indigenous Australian being appointed to the role. "As an Aboriginal person, I think that would be nice," he said.
"I don't want it to be a political choice. I think we need to get the person to do the job and bring the country together. We've just been through over 12 months of division and fighting."
Australian Monarchist League chair Eric Abetz said any replacement would "need to be the best possible person for the job".
"It's got to be based on merit and not on shallow symbolism," he said.
"My view is that we need to get beyond identity politics, whether it's a male or female, Indigenous, white, Australian born or indeed an immigrant," he said.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/voice-architect-tom-calma-leads-call-for-australias-firstindigenous-governorgeneral/news-story/184c7f4a0e48aba2c7e1547e232d7730
#20272137 at 2024-01-20 10:22:46 (UTC+1)
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>>20272130
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During this and later wars, Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan and Gaza from Egypt. Both rejected Israel's offers to return captured territory in return for peace agreements. When Egypt later agreed to recognise Israel and enter a peace treaty, Israel handed it back the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt didn't want Gaza back.
Arab states have gradually moved towards normalised relations with Israel. But Palestinian leaders remain defiant, refusing multiple offers of a Palestinian state. Because they oppose a two-state solution. They want one state, not being Israel.
Israel hasn't occupied Gaza for nearly 20 years. Hamas has been in control, ruling through violence, fear and the indoctrination of children. Billions in aid has been spent, not on building prosperity or creating opportunities, but on weapons, tunnel construction and enriching Hamas's leaders.
Hamas wants Israel destroyed. This isn't a secret. It's clearly stated in Hamas's 1988 covenant and 2017 charter; manifestos riddled with anti-Semitic tropes, conspiracy theories and historical falsehoods. The covenant states: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." And: "Palestine is an Islamic Waqf (an endowment or Holy possession) land consecrated for Muslim generations until Judgment Day ... This is the law governing the land of Palestine in the Islamic sharia (law) and the same goes for any land the Muslims have conquered by force, because during the times of (Islamic) conquests, the Muslims consecrated these lands to Muslim generations till the Day of Judgment."
If you can't imagine how people could commit the horrors of October 7, read those documents and find out.
We've seen the savagery humans are capable of in Rwanda, in the former Yugoslavia, during the Holocaust. Also a decade ago under the ISIS caliphate, with videos of people being beheaded and burned alive in cages, women and girls sold into sexual slavery and gay men thrown off rooftops.
October 7 wasn't only an attack on Israel. It was also an attack on the civilised world.
As with ISIS, the battle against Hamas isn't a battle against Palestinians or Muslims but a battle between modernity and medieval brutality; between civilisation and barbarism.
All reasonable people, including Israel's government and military, are concerned about the impact of this battle on Gazan civilians. History indicates it's impossible to avoid civilian casualties when fighting monstrous regimes with no regard for human life.
An estimated 600,000 German civilians (including 76,000 children) died in Allied bombings during World War II. No one really knows how many civilians died in the defeat of ISIS. Up to 11,000 civilians, 10 times the official estimate, are believed killed in the battle for Mosul alone, but it's hard to know how many were buried under the eight million tonnes of rubble. That's just one city.
We don't know the true number of Gazan civilian casualties because the figures are provided by Hamas, prolific liars who don't distinguish between civilians and combatants. We do know casualties would be massively reduced if Hamas didn't conduct itself from schools and hospitals or use Gazans as human shields.
We also know Israeli military action could be ended if Hamas returns the hostages and delivers up the October 7 attackers to face justice. But only Hamas has this within its power.
Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO DUniv (Hon. Causa) is director, Indigenous Forum, Centre for Independent Studies.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/ignorance-the-basis-for-poisonous-prejudice/news-story/5c2751cfabcc356175324595251d9db6
#20272130 at 2024-01-20 10:20:36 (UTC+1)
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>>20098526
Ignorance the basis for poisonous prejudice
NYUNGGAI Warren Mundine - JANUARY 20, 2024
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Hamas's savagery on October 7 knew no bounds. From babies to the elderly, pregnant women, festival-goers and peace activists; the victims were killed, butchered and violated with unspeakable cruelty.
The attackers' main target was Jews, but their victims included Christians, Muslims and Buddhists; Palestinians, Bedouins and foreign nationals from every continent including Thai farm workers and Tanzanian agricultural students. The barbarians laughed and celebrated their crimes; filmed their atrocities and posted evidence of them on the internet.
The blood was barely dry before demonstrations sprang up globally advocating genocide against Jews, including at the supposedly elite universities. The chant, "from the river to the sea" means the destruction of Israel and elimination of the Jews. At times this subtlety was abandoned with express calls to kill Jews and for jihad against Jews, including in Australia.
Many of these bigots, especially in the universities, are champions of inclusivity and diversity and hold particular regard for indigenous peoples - other than the Jews. They see Nazis everywhere - except when they join demonstrations with Nazi ideologies on full display.
Australia's character as a successful multicultural, multifaith, multiracial nation where everyone is equal is under threat, with anti-Semitic incidents up by over 700 per cent. Australian Jews are living in fear.
How does a Middle Eastern conflict cause threats against fellow Australians? The answer is blatant anti-Semitism supported by lies and gaslighting that would make Goebbels blush.
These bigots claim Israel is a colonial state; the Jews are settlers who've stolen Palestinian land and refuse a Palestinian state. The opposite is true.
Jews are indigenous people of Israel and have lived there since before recorded history. In 700 to 600BC, their kingdoms were conquered; their homelands subject to repeated conquest and colonisation thereafter, including by the Romans, Byzantines, Arabs and Ottoman Empire.
The creation of the modern state of Israel was an act of decolonisation. Palestinians with unbroken ancestry in the region who identify as Arabs, do so because they've adopted the identity, language and, in many cases, religion of colonisers from the Arabian Peninsula more than 1000 miles away.
When their kingdoms fell, some Jews were forced into Europe, the wider Middle East and North Africa. This diaspora experienced ongoing persecution. Jews had lived in Algeria since around the 1st century AD, over 600 years before Algeria's conquest by the Arabs. When it secured independence from France in 1962, one colonial power made way for another and Algeria again became an Arab state. But only Algerians with Muslim fathers or paternal grandfathers were granted citizenship, so its 140,000 Jews were forced out within a decade.
Around 900,000 Jews were driven out of countries across the Middle East and North Africa where they'd lived for millennia. None claim a right of return.
When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, the Jews' traditional lands, by then known as Palestine, were administered by Britain. In 1917, Britain issued the Balfour Declaration endorsing Palestine becoming a nation for Jews. In the face of Arab opposition, this promise wasn't honoured for 30 years, by which time the plan had changed to partitioning Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state. Jews accepted this. Palestinians did not and the West Bank was annexed by Jordan, Gaza by Egypt.
On its creation in 1948, Israel was immediately invaded by Arab states. Those Palestinians who fled did so not as a precondition to Israel's creation, but during that war. While there were a range of reasons some Palestinians left Israel, these reasons included getting out of the way of attacking Arab armies and being urged to leave by Arab leaders who believed Israel would be quickly defeated. It wasn't.
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#19822195 at 2023-10-29 05:29:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition
#32 - Part 82
Indigenous Voice To Parliament Referendum - Part 46
>>19780537 Indigenous Yes campaigners divided on Voice response, draft reveals - Indigenous leaders are divided over the wording of a joint statement following the Voice referendum defeat, with several objecting to the tone of a draft open letter, which lays blame for the loss on the Coalition and is critical of No voters. The draft document, intended as the first collective response of Indigenous leaders supporting the Yes campaign after declaring a week of silence following the referendum defeat last Saturday, lays bare the grief and pain among the Yes campaign group and the broader Indigenous community. It says Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were "hurting and bewildered by what they feel is the viciousness of the repudiation of our peoples and rejection of our efforts to pursue reconciliation in good faith". The document, dated October 20, a leaked copy of which has been obtained by this masthead, is the latest in a series of draft versions circulated among about 50 Indigenous people and organisations, including those associated with the Yes 23 and Uluru Dialogue campaigns. It is unclear who has written the statement or who would endorse it, but multiple sources confirmed to this masthead that, after the draft was circulated on an email chain on Friday, several Indigenous leaders declined to be part of it, saying they disagreed with the tone and some of the points made. Those who objected included Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar, co-chairman of Queensland's Interim Truth and Treaty Body Mick Gooda, and Coalition of the Peaks lead convener Pat Turner. They were contacted for comment.
>>19780543 'Declaration of war': Mundine rejects criticism from Yes campaign - Leading No campaigner in the Voice referendum Nyunggai Warren Mundine has dismissed as ridiculous and racist a claim from Indigenous leaders for Yes that he is a puppet of right-wing think tanks, as Anthony Albanese declares the referendum created a new national awareness of the disadvantage confronting First Nations peoples. A draft document dated October 20 intended to be the first collective response of Indigenous leaders supporting the Yes campaign was to be released after a week of silence marking the referendum defeat. A leaked copy of the statement was published by this masthead on Sunday and had been circulated among about 50 Indigenous people and organisations, including those associated with the Yes 23 and Uluru Dialogue campaigns. The draft letter says Indigenous leaders Price, Senator Kerrynne Liddle, and Mundine who opposed the Voice to parliament "were just front people for three right-wing organisations". "It is an old colonial tactic to use black people to fight black people," the statement says. Mundine said he opposed the referendum because it was divisive between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. He said the draft letter "was a continuation of that". "So much for reconciliation and uniting the country," he said. "This is a declaration of war, metaphorically. This insulting idea that we're some sort of puppet is just totally ridiculous. Saying that the No campaign had a racist base is just ridiculous."
>>19780548 Victorian Nationals leader Peter Walsh challenges state truth-telling body - Victorian Nationals leader Peter Walsh has challenged the work of the Yoorrook Justice Commission, as he warned "the time for virtue-signalling is over". The state shadow Indigenous Australians minister declined to comment specifically on the Aboriginal truth-telling body's latest "land, sky and waters" inquiry but said he did not support the work of Yoorrook so far. "Their last report, on the justice system, one of the recommendations was for a totally stand-alone Indigenous court system. And our view is that we are all Victorians and we're all equal before the law. We supported Indigenous courts for youth, which I think has delivered good outcomes, but as part of the current legal system of Victoria, we do not support a totally separate legal system." The state Nationals leader said he could not take a stance on a potential treaty until he had all the detail. "It's a bit like Albanese's voice. A lot of people voted against it because they didn't know what it was. And this time we have nothing before us that says anything about treaty."
#19822188 at 2023-10-29 05:28:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition
#32 - Part 80
Indigenous Voice To Parliament Referendum - Part 44
>>19762128 Time to stop the Indigenous voice to parliament vitriol and move on, says Warren Mundine - Leading No advocate Warren Mundine has said the "vitriol" and "hatred of people" in the days after the referendum result are the "worst I've seen". Speaking to The Australian, Mr Mundine called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to "pour cold water" on the lingering post-vote attacks to "calm the situation down". "We can't go on as a country like this," Mr Mundine said, referencing the egg attack on CLP senator Jacinta Price's parents and threats to No voters across the country. "I know of people that are scared - the threats we've seen and things happening are just as bad as what happened during the campaign," he said. He said attacks from Yes supporters pertaining to alleged misinformation and education of No voters showed they were "still attacking the public". "I know that both Yes and No voters want to get things working for First Nations people struggling in terrible conditions - let's put personal things aside, we can't keep throwing rocks at each other," he said.
>>19769156 Jacinta Price's plan for Aboriginal child abuse royal commission savaged by Indigenous leaders - Nearly 100 of Australia's leading Indigenous figures and organisations have condemned the ?Coalition's call for a royal commission into child sex abuse in Aboriginal communities, breaking the "week of silence" and opening a national fracture on Indigenous policy five days after Saturday's referendum defeat. A joint statement issued by the alliance - which includes the ?Coalition of Peaks, Reconciliation Australia, the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation and Professor Marcia Langton - warned the Coalition the safety of children "should not be politicised or used as a platform to advance a political position."
>>19769183 Voice defeat delivers opening salvo against identity politics - "Probably for the first time anywhere an issue of identity politics has been put to the people and, here in Australia, resoundingly rejected. Given that the classic notion of the absolute equality of every human being - regardless of race, religion, gender and culture - is now under sustained assault, this should be the vote that rang round the world. Indeed it needs to, given the susceptibility of governments almost everywhere to bad policy based on muddled thinking about group rights and a misguided apology mania in what are the world's least racist societies. The constitutional entrenchment of an Indigenous voice to the parliament and to the executive government would have given some Australians a greater say over how all Australians are governed, based on their declared identity as Aboriginal. In the immediate aftermath of the vote, the international reaction was of one pained surprise that Australians had somehow rejected rights for Aboriginal people, rather than just special ones. This simply shows the global pervasiveness of identity thinking - due to the left's long march through the institutions - and reveals how seismic our vote could be; provided we appreciate the magnitude of what we've just done and have the self-confidence to build upon it." - Tony Abbott, 28th prime minister of Australia, 2013-15 - theaustralian.com.au
>>19769209 Annastacia Palaszczuk set to pull the pin on treaty plans - Queensland's path to treaties with First Nations groups has collapsed, with Labor Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk warning the process cannot go ahead now the Liberal National Party opposition has withdrawn support. Just days after the state posted the biggest No vote of the voice referendum, Ms Palaszczuk moved to abandon laws - passed this year with the support of the LNP - enabling treaty deals and reparations for up to 150 Indigenous groups. After the LNP announced on Wednesday night it had backflipped on treaty, Ms Palaszczuk would only commit to going ahead with truth-telling hearings, due to begin early next year. "For the treaty process, you would need bipartisan support,'' she said at a press conference. "I can't predict what is going to happen in the future."
#19822169 at 2023-10-29 05:22:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition
#32 - Part 74
Indigenous Voice To Parliament Referendum - Part 38
>>19745129 Video: Voice referendum result heralds 'new era,' says Jacinta Price - The Coalition and the No campaign, piloted by Jacinta Price, have promised a "new era in Indigenous policy" that rejects the politics of grievance following the comprehensive defeat of the voice to parliament. Senator Price, the Opposition's Indigenous Australians spokeswoman, said the result meant that Australians had "said No to grievance and the push from activists to suggest that we are a racist country." She argued the defeat of the referendum offered a new opportunity for Australians to show that "we are one of the, if not the, greatest nation on the face of the earth - and it is time for Australians to believe that once again, to be proud to call ourselves Australian." "Because until we can be proud, we can't form a position where we can be strong to tackle our tough issues within our country," she said. "For those of you who voted Yes, please know that we as a Coalition have always got the best interests of all Australians at heart. We want to make sure that we are fighting for a better future for all Australians."
>>19745190 Video: Warren Mundine blasts journos at fiery post-Voice press conference in defence of Jacinta Price - Warren Mundine has blasted sections of the media for their treatment of fellow No campaigner and shadow Aboriginal Australians minister Jacinta Nampijinpa Price at a press conference Saturday, saying journalists needed to "wake up" to themselves. "Wake up to yourselves, people are committing suicides in these communities, people are being raped and beaten and this is the questions you come up with?", Mr Mundine said after a series of questions about voting results in remote Aboriginal communities. "We're about getting results - reducing suicides and instead of this nonsense that you people carry on with," he said. "People need to stop turning a blind eye to the violence, abuse, coercive control and destructive behaviour that goes on in some Indigenous communities." Mr Mundine continued, launching a broadside at the architecture behind the Voice, and particularly the contents of the longer form of the Uluru Statement from the Heart that became a major point of dispute during the campaign. "(The Voice) sees Indigenous Australians as trapped in victimhood and oppression. This is a lie. It includes a self-proclaimed history of Indigenous Australia, called Our Story. Written to shame Australians about their non-indigenous ancestors and Australia's founding," he said. "No nation has had a perfect beginning. Most have had bloody and brutal beginnings founded in invasion, conquest, revolution or war. I don't judge a nation by the worst of its history, but how it seeks to become its better self."
>>19745191 Video: 'Wake up to yourselves': Warren Mundine unleashes on reporters - Prominent No campaigner Warren Mundine lashed out at reporters following the Voice referendum defeat. About nine million Australians voted at one of the 7,100 polling places around the country on the referendum day. "Wake up to yourselves, people are committing suicides in these communities, people are being raped and beaten and this is the questions you come up with?" Mr Mundine said at a press conference on Saturday. "We're about getting results - reducing suicides and instead of this nonsense that you people carry on with. "It's about time we had a vote tonight that said Australians want to get things done - well stop talking about all this other nonsense ... wake up to yourselves and tart asking real questions and making governments accountable." - Sky News Australia
#19822168 at 2023-10-29 05:22:06 (UTC+1)
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#32 - Part 73
Indigenous Voice To Parliament Referendum - Part 37
>>19740235 Indigenous Yes campaigners fall silent as they grieve referendum result - Indigenous Australian campaigners for the Voice to parliament say they will fall silent for a week as they grieve the outcome of the referendum, and have called for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags to be lowered to half mast to reflect the loss they feel. A statement by Indigenous Voice supporters, which the Yes23 campaign circulated on their behalf on Saturday night, labelled the referendum defeat a "bitter irony". Indigenous Voice supporters said they would take a week of silence to "grieve this outcome and reflect on its meaning and significance". It was not immediately clear whether the statement represented all Indigenous campaigners who had backed the Voice. Yes23 and the Uluru Dialogue said they endorsed the statement, and it was shared on social media by the NSW Aboriginal Land Council and the Central Land Council. "That people who have only been on this continent for 235 years would refuse to recognise those whose home this land has been for 60,000 and more years is beyond reason. It was never in the gift of these newcomers to refuse recognition to the true owners of Australia," the statement said. "To our people we say: do not shed tears. This rejection was never for others to issue. The truth is that rejection was always ours to determine. The truth is that we offered this recognition and it has been refused. We now know where we stand in this, our own country. Always was. Always will be." The Indigenous Voice advocates said they would not rest long but would "pack up the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Fly our flags low. Talk not of recognition and reconciliation." They would "re-gather our strength and resolve, and when we determine a new direction for justice and our rights, let us once again unite. Let us convene in due course to carefully consider our path forward."
>>19740312 Voice referendum result sees 'recognition refused for the true owners of Australia' - Indigenous leaders across Australia who supported the voice have lamented the defeated referendum as a "bitter irony" in that newcomers who had been on the continent for 235 years would "refuse recognition to the true owners of Australia". "The referendum was a chance for newcomers to show a long-refused grace and gratitude and to acknowledge that the brutal dispossession of our people underwrote their every advantage in this country," the leaders said. Yes23 campaign chief Dean Parkin earlier in the night declared supporters of an Indigenous voice to parliament weren't able to cut through to Australians because of the "single largest misinformation campaign this country has ever seen". The extraordinary claim came as fellow leading Yes campaigner Thomas Mayo blasted the "disgusting" No campaign following an emphatic defeat of the voice referendum pushed by Anthony Albanese and Indigenous leaders. Mr Mayo labelled Anthony Albanese courageous but said Mr Dutton led a "horrible'' political campaign against the voice. "We put our faith in the Australian people. And, as I said, I think they were ready," he said. "But there has been some really horrible political campaigning from Peter Dutton and his No campaign. It's been disgusting to be frank. We're gonna take stock now - Indigenous people, Indigenous leaders. One thing we do know is we're never going to give up fighting for our rights, our rightful place in this country, for recognition and a Voice because, as I said, it was the right thing to do."
>>19745124 Jacinta Price thanks nation for goodwill after voice referendum result - Opposition leader Peter Dutton says the defeated referendum is "good for our country" and paid tribute to Warren Mundine and Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price for leading the No campaign and enduring "personal and offensive attacks". Mr Dutton said "what matters tomorrow (is) that this result doesn't divide us". He said he respected Yes voters' decision, even though he thought the voice was divisive, and a bad idea. "This is the referendum Australia did not need to have," he said. Senator Price thanked the Australian people for "believing in our great nation and the goodwill of this country". "The vast majority of Australians want what's best for everyone of us, including the most marginalised Indigenous Australians," she said. Senator Price said Australians had said No to division, gaslighting, and bullying, and the idea that Australia was a racist country. "It's time for Australians to believe that (we're a great country), to be proud, to call ourselves Australian," she said.
#19822152 at 2023-10-29 05:17:35 (UTC+1)
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#32 - Part 68
Indigenous Voice To Parliament Referendum - Part 32
>>19733764 Tears and calls to action as Australians decide the fate of the voice referendum - Anthony Albanese has issued a tearful last pitch to voters to support the voice in one of his final pit stops along the referendum campaign trail in his Sydney electorate of Grayndler. In a longwinded and emotionally-wrought address that evoked the legacy of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, the Prime Minister called on Australians to "unite" behind the voice and be on the "right side of history". Mr Albanese stopped to take selfies with constituents and patted dogs outside voting booths at Balmain Public School before lashing sections of the media for "extraordinary ignorance" and criticised the No campaign for "stoking division". Dressed in his signature campaign battle armour of an akubra hat and Yes T-shirt, Mr Albanese fought back tears as he spoke about how some critics had called on Australians to boo the welcome to country at the AFL and NRL grand finals. "We must do better. We can do better," he said. "This is not a radical proposition. This is a hand outstretched of friendship from the First Australians to every Australian, just asking for it to be grasped in that spirit of reconciliation and friendship."
>>19733778 Voice referendum: Double trouble for the Yes camp - Yes campaigners in Queensland and Western Australia are ?bracing for a bruising defeat at Saturday's referendum, despite a flurry of volunteer-driven last-minute action in the outlying states. In published polling on support for the voice referendum, the two jurisdictions – which make up about 30 per cent of the national voting population - have consistently remained at the bottom of the national tally. The Yes campaign has mobilised about 70,000 volunteers nationwide - eclipsing the 25,000 estimated by the No side - and Yes23 director and Quandamooka man from Queensland's Minjerribah Dean Parkin issued a final plea to voters to back the proposal. "A very simple act by all Queenslanders and West Australians in voting Yes can lead to a practical change for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across the country," he said. A Labor volunteer working on the Yes campaign told The Weekend Australian the result would "go down the gurgler" in those two states, a prediction backed by No campaign insiders. "If we get 40 per cent in Queensland it would be a good result ... and in WA, the cultural heritage laws really stuffed us over there," the volunteer said.
>>19733828 In Peter Dutton country, No holds its ground as voters question a lack of detail - The No campaign is confident it will secure victory in the Voice to parliament referendum, with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton suggesting a record number of Australians could oppose the constitutional change. While Dutton did not invite media to attend a polling place when he voted in his electorate of Dickson on Saturday afternoon, prominent No campaigner Nyunggai Warren Mundine was out on the hustings and the opposition's Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was on Saturday afternoon due to fly from Alice Springs to Brisbane, where the official No campaign will gather to watch the vote count. The federal opposition leader told Channel Seven's Weekend Sunrise that Anthony Albanese's decision to hold a referendum had divided the country. "I wrote to the prime minister in January of this year with 15 reasonable questions, he's never replied to that letter. He's never answered the queries that millions of Australians have," he said. "He was told all year not to go down this path. If he was going to have a referendum, do it on recognition because 70, 80, 90 per cent of Australians would support recognition being enshrined in the Constitution, but he didn't do that, and because the Voice is in there, people now it seems, in record numbers are going to vote against it."
#19822142 at 2023-10-29 05:14:47 (UTC+1)
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#32 - Part 65
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>>19720215 Voice referendum: Patrick Dodson says nation faces path akin to post-apartheid South Africa if Yes fails - Patrick Dodson says Australia will need to take a path similar to South Africa following the abolishment of apartheid if the voice referendum is voted down and must develop a new way of ascertaining the views of Indigenous people. The father of reconciliation said he was hopeful an Indigenous voice to parliament would be legislated by the next election, due in 2025, if the Yes vote won while issuing several stark warnings three days out from polling day, including that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people "can't live in your own country and not be recognised". The West Australian senator, who has lost his beard and is still recovering from cancer, gave his only public speech during the voice referendum campaign to the National Press Club on Wednesday. "If we say No ... we're going to have to look in the mirror and say who the hell are we, what have we done, and now what are we going to do about it?" Senator Dodson said.
>>19720229 Noel Pearson urges voters to consider future generations at last-ditch Yes campaign rally for the Voice - Prominent Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has compared the politicisation of the Voice to Parliament referendum to vandalism, in a last-minute pitch to voters. Speaking at a Yes event in central Perth today, the co-architect of the Uluru Statement From the Heart attempted to appeal to undecided voters. "My last pitch, on behalf of this referendum campaign, is to say to those Australians who are undecided, who are still thinking about yes or no - don't slam the door on the children," he said. "This is not about Noel Pearson or Patrick Dodson, or Jacinta Price or Warren Mundine - we are the past, the children are the future, we're doing this for them." Australians will vote on Saturday on whether an Indigenous Voice to Parliament should be enshrined in the constitution. The Voice would be an independent body advising parliament and government about matters affecting the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, but would have no legal power to enforce its recommendations.
>>19720267 Defeated voice is a victory for the status quo - "In two days, after 15 years of work under seven prime ministers, Australians will vote on a proposal that came from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We are not putting this proposal to politicians but taking it as a request to the Australian people. We chose the people over the politicians whose solutions have continuously, tragically, failed despite best intentions. We chose the Australian people because we had - and still have - faith in everyday Australians. Although many politicians undoubtedly come with good intentions, as a group there's no denying they have proven incapable of delivering meaningful change for Indigenous communities on the ground. Our positive campaign with its message of hope has had its challenges, particularly in a year in which Australians have struggled making ends meet in a once-in-a-generation cost-of-living crisis. This weekend, your vote counts. Enough people writing three letters on to a ballot paper will propel Australia a step further along the path of reconciliation. To a future where we get more done for Indigenous people, together. We have faith that Australians know Yes is the right response to the invitation of Indigenous Australians on this question, and that is the answer they will give." - Dean Parkin, director of the Yes23 campaign - theaustralian.com.au
>>19720280 Keep clothing neutral or face vote ban: AEC - The Australian Electoral Commission has urged voters not to wear any clothing that could be construed as campaign material as they go to vote in the voice referendum. "The rules surrounding what people can or cannot wear into a polling place in a referendum are the same as for elections," a statement from the AEC reads. "Campaigning is not allowed inside the polling place or within six metres of the entrance. "Our staff will take a commonsense approach to conversations with voters regarding these matters - to either cover up or to make sure people behave appropriately when inside the polling place. "The AEC understands that passions are often high around referendum events, and people want to proudly display their voting intentions – either way - when coming to vote. Please don't fall foul of the law," the statement appeals. "Simply wear or display campaign material outside the polling place instead."
#19822115 at 2023-10-29 05:07:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition
#32 - Part 54
Indigenous Voice To Parliament Referendum - Part 18
>>19650029 Voice campaign gets ugly as early voting begins - Special Minister of State Don Farrell has urged anyone who feels threatened during the voice referendum to contact police, as Yes and No campaigners trade barbs over which side has more extremists. Ahead of pre-polling commencing on Monday, No campaigners have written to the Australian Electoral Commission complaining their volunteers were worried about their safety standing at booths. But a Labor spokeswoman described the Advance Australia letter as a "cynical attempt by the No campaign to distract from the extreme and dangerous far-right influencers they've attracted". "If Advance Australia are aware of threatening or criminal behaviour they should report it to the police," the spokeswoman said. "The No campaign only focus on creating fear, they offer no solutions and no progress." The Albanese government last week accused far-right influencers of hijacking the No campaign after a member of the Proud Boys and neo-Nazi Tom Sewell attended their rallies.
>>19650055 Albanese looking to blame Dutton for his voice misjudgment - "In the final two weeks of the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum campaign, Anthony Albanese is refining a new political narrative aimed at minimising culpability for his misjudgment and maximising blame for Peter Dutton The Prime Minister's apparent intent, in prudent political expectation or perhaps even anticipation of a defeat for the referendum, is to argue he was misled on the vital issue of bipartisanship by the Coalition and betrayed by the craven political opportunism of the Opposition Leader. A deflection, in case of defeat, away from his own miscalculation that bipartisanship on a referendum no longer counted because things had changed and the Australian public was more inclined to listen to the elites of business, sport and religion than to leaders of political parties. If there is a yes vote, it will not matter what is being said now about Dutton and the lack of bipartisanship... but if there is a no vote, Albanese will be the one under pressure for a failed political campaign that has caused potential damage to Australian society and the Labor government." - Dennis Shanahan - theaustralian.com.au
>>19656285 Video: No campaigners warn against complacency at Perth event as Voice referendum draws closer - More than 1,000 people have gathered at an event in Perth to hear leaders of the No campaign warn against complacency ahead of the referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. With the polls already open for early voting and less than a fortnight until referendum day, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Nyunggai Warren Mundine were greeted like rock stars at the event on Monday night. Speaking to the crowd at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, Mr Mundine warned volunteers and campaigners for the No camp not to get complacent. "The battle is not over yet, we've still got to get out there and fight every day," he said. The room was a sea of orange "No" posters, hats, and T-shirts, which featured the slogan "Vote no to a Voice of division". Senator Nampijinpa Price was greeted with a standing ovation when she addressed the audience. "It's such a pleasure being back here in Western Australia in Perth, you guys are absolutely bringing it," the Northern Territory senator for the Country Liberal Party said.
>>19656295 Yes23 warned by AEC on 'potentially misleading' purple signs - The Australian Electoral Commission has warned the Yes23 Voice campaign that some of its signs could be potentially misleading and demanded it move them away from polling stations. Some Yes23 signs - which say "Vote YES" - use the same purple colour as the commission's signs, which have the words "voting centre" on them and are used to inform voters about polling booth locations for the Voice referendum. The commission said in a statement late on Monday, the first day of early voting, that it had become aware of signs that could "potentially mislead voters", who might see the official purple colours and become confused about whether a Yes vote was perhaps mandatory, or encouraged, by authorities. "To be absolutely clear - the signs were erected by the Yes23 campaign, not the AEC," the statement said. "When we were alerted to this signage, the AEC requested the Yes23 campaign to rectify the situation by ensuring their signs are not placed in the proximity of AEC voting centre signs. "The Yes23 campaign has agreed to comply with this request."
#19822111 at 2023-10-29 05:06:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition
#32 - Part 52
Indigenous Voice To Parliament Referendum - Part 16
>>19623899 The Voice changes Australian law and risks reparations - "Former ALP president later turned Liberal, Nyunggai Warren Mundine, has declared the Uluru Statement from the Heart a declaration of war against modern Australia. Immediately other Indigenous Australians disagreed. But this week I was privileged to receive a detailed legal opinion on the implications of the Uluru statement for modern Australia from Terence Cole, KC, one of Australia's best known jurists having been a judge on the NSW Supreme Court and presiding over a number of royal commissions. Cole does not endorse Mundine's war prediction but warns Australians about the future reparations they may face and the fundamental changes that implementation of the Uluru statement would bring to the Australia's legal system. He concludes: "The potential for great and irremediable harm to Australian society means that The Voice should never be incorporated in the constitution." Cole points out that some Indigenous Australians and Torres Strait Islanders want much more than recognition. They want the constitution changed to incorporate their Uluru claimed rights so that in the future, those Uluru rights cannot be abolished. And already three demands of the Uluru statement have accepted entirely by our Prime Minister - the Voice body, a Makarrata commission and "truth telling about our history". Cole concludes that when asked to vote to amend the constitution to incorporate the Voice, Australians need to understand that some will use it to support the demands for recognition of coexisting sovereignty, a Makarrata commission designed to produce a treaty, monetary compensation for past events, and a rewriting of Australian history. Cole might not attach Mundine's description of Uluru as a "declaration of war" but he shows how the proposed changes to property rights will create deep divisions among the population." - Robert Gottliebsen - theaustralian.com.au
>>19623907 Albanese government says far-right influencers are infiltrating the campaign against an Indigenous voice to parliament - Senior government minister Murray Watt has accused far-right influencers of "appearing to hijack the No campaign", as Fair Australia dismisses Yes camp warnings Warren Mundine was "encouraging violence" through a controversial tweet. Both sides of the voice referendum debate have accused each other of violence and abuse, with a clash between Yes and No supporters outside a No campaign event in Brisbane on Wednesday night the latest confrontation on the campaign trail. A member of the local chapter of the Proud Boys Ben Shand, known as the Dusty Bogan, was at the event headlined by Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Mr Mundine. Government sources said this appeared to be part of a larger pattern of infiltration of the Proud Boys in the official No campaign, with Mr Shand asking his followers to "jump on the bandwagon boys" and volunteer for Fair Australia.
>>19631056 Indigenous voice to parliament: Clive Palmer pays out $2m to say No - Clive Palmer will spend $2m promoting the No vote, including a final-week advertising blitz in South Australia and Tasmania, amid rising concerns that Yes23's $50m war chest could fall short in swinging enough votes for a come-from-behind victory in the voice referendum. Yes23, No and third-party organisations are on track to spend more than $30m on advertising ahead of the October 14 referendum, with the bulk of funding quarantined for a final two-week push to win over soft and undecided voters. "We're spending the money to put our point of view forward. We're targeting Tasmania and South Australia. We'll be advertising in all the states but will be ?focusing on them. It's cheaper to spend advertising in Tassie and South Australia," Mr Palmer said. "I think the No case will win. My prediction is 30 per cent Yes when we get to the polling date. If you look at it in the proper context, the most important thing in Australia is not Yes or No at the moment, it's the cost-of-living and how the average Australian is going to make his way." The UAP founder, who confirmed he had not consulted with Indigenous leaders, said his campaign reflected a "personal view" and was not associated with the official No campaign.
#19822107 at 2023-10-29 05:05:26 (UTC+1)
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#32 - Part 50
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>>19611589 Video: Uluru statement a 'symbolic declaration of war', says Warren Mundine - The Uluru Statement from the Heart, which first proposed a Voice to parliament, is a symbolic declaration of war against modern Australia, according to leading No campaigner Nyunggai Warren Mundine. In a firebrand speech to the National Press Club on Tuesday, less than three weeks before Australians will vote in a historic referendum, Mundine claimed the Yes campaign is built on a "litany of lies", as he disputed the claim that 80 per cent of Australia's first people back the Voice proposal and that Indigenous Australians aren't listened to by policymakers. Uluru Dialogue co-chair Megan Davis hit back at Mundine's characterisation of the document, released in 2017. "The Uluru Statement from the Heart was an expression of peace and love to the Australian people, it is about belonging and unifying the nation and I find it really repugnant the notion it could be associated at all with the language of the declaration of war," she told the ABC.
>>19617030 Leading Yes campaigner for Voice to Parliament Noel Pearson makes impassioned Press Club plea - Leading Yes campaigner and Indigenous academic Noel Pearson has made an impassioned speech to the National Press Club, pleading for Australians to support the Voice to Parliament in a show of "unity". On October 14 the country will head to the polls to vote on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament - a referendum Mr Pearson described as "the largest mirror we will ever look into as a nation". "[Twenty-four million] people will look into the mirror on October 14 and see ourselves like we never have before," he told the Press Club. Mr Pearson said the love of country should be why Australians vote Yes to the constitutional amendment. "I say today - it is the love of country that is our driving motivation for the recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian constitution," Mr Pearson said. "I've come to see - it is the love of our country that joins us all as Australians. "I said it's not the same as patriotism, because there's nothing political about this love of country."
>>19617036 Noel Pearson says Indigenous voice to parliament referendum is test of Australia's democracy - Prominent Yes campaigner Noel Pearson has declared the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum will be a test of Australia's democracy and a No vote will ensure cultural wars – including a debate on whether Aboriginal people are worthwhile - will continue indefinitely. In a speech to the National Press Club titled "for the love of country", the Cape York leader conceded supporters of a voice were filled with hope and terror about the outcome on October 14 but said "out of naivety or faith" Indigenous people wanted to ask Australians if they "supported a better future". "This really is a test of whether our democracy can sustain a discourse for good," Mr Pearson said in a sometimes emotional appeal to voters.
#19822099 at 2023-10-29 05:02:50 (UTC+1)
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#32 - Part 46
Indigenous Voice To Parliament Referendum - Part 10
>>19566073 Anthony Albanese has miscalculated and the Indigenous voice to parliament could be doomed - "Anthony Albanese is letting down Indigenous Australians because of a lack of real leadership and a failure in his duty, not only to Indigenous people but also to the nation. The Prime Minister has miscalculated on the political strategy for the October 14 referendum for an Indigenous voice to parliament and executive government, having already lost enormous public goodwill and designing a debate without substance. As a result, public support for the Yes campaign has slumped and the referendum already could be doomed to failure. There has been an inability to explain how the voice would work and, in the absence of substance, the vacuum has filled with trivia and invective. Indigenous Australians have been given what looks like a false hope and the nation has been delivered division." - Dennis Shanahan - theaustralian.com.au
>>19570657 No campaigner Warren Mundine walks back support for treaties should Voice referendum fail - Leading No campaigner Warren Mundine has walked back his previous support for treaty processes should the Voice referendum fail, while also hurling accusations that the Yes campaign are launching "racial attacks and abuse". While Mundine previously claimed treaties were more likely to be progressed if a No vote was successful, when asked to clarify his position, the No advocate instead referred to "Native Title and land rights". "These things have huge commercial outcomes for Aboriginal people in regard to jobs, in regards to training, and in regard to running their own business, and it's done a tremendous job for Aboriginal communities," Mr Mundine told Sky News on Monday. "That's what I'm talking about."
>>19575597 Video: Anthony Albanese says 'racist pigs' abuse hurled at Indigenous voice to parliament opponents was 'nasty' - Anthony Albanese has condemned "nasty behaviour wherever it occurs" after No campaigners were labelled "racist pigs" and "racist dogs", conceding some of the tone of the voice referendum debate has been unfortunate. As leading No campaigner Jacinta Nampijinpa Price declared the Prime Minister had to take responsibility for the racism and division in Australia, Mr Albanese urged voters to be respectful and debate the referendum question before them. Peter Dutton also urged Australians to participate in the voice debate respectfully, lashing the "deeply disturbing" protest. Video taken by South Australian Liberal senator Alex Antic walking into Fair Australia's No campaign launch in Adelaide on Monday evening shows protesters yelling "racist dog", "racist pig" and "crazy wankers". Senator Price and Indigenous leader Warren Mundine were the headline speakers of the event. "I condemn nasty behaviour wherever it occurs," Mr Albanese said.
>>19575624 Video: Jacinta Price breaks down in tears at packed out No rally as she describes the Voice as the 'biggest gaslighting event' in Australia's history - Wild scenes of jubilation erupted during a raucous No campaign rally in the must-win state of South Australia on Tuesday night. More than 1,000 people, many wearing 'No' supporter T-shirts, packed into the Adelaide Convention Centre to hear leading campaigners including Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO. South Australian Senator Kerrynne Liddle was also in attendance to rail against the Voice to Parliament, which would enshrine a Indigenous-led advisory body into the Constitution. In an emotional speech, Senator Price broke down in tears when she spoke of her role as a 'vessel' for Indigenous people who she said had been ignored by mainstream politics and media. 'I was a vessel for the women sitting in that room, the cousin of a young girl murdered, hanging from a tree,' she said, referencing her address at the National Press Club last week.
#19822096 at 2023-10-29 05:02:11 (UTC+1)
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#32 - Part 45
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>>19561705 Don't be distracted by 'controversy bombs', Pearson urges Yes campaign - The Yes camp will use rallies for 50,000 people and concerts in capital cities on Sunday to try and draw a line under a messy opening fortnight, after the Voice referendum campaign became mired in a verbal crossfire about racism and the impact of colonisation. Voice co-architect Noel Pearson said at a Yes23 rally in Sydney's Redfern that the campaign would need to avoid "controversy bombs" over the remaining four weeks to referendum day on October 14, as he dismissed comments by Coalition frontbencher Jacinta Nampijinpa Price that British colonisation had no lasting negative impacts on Indigenous Australians.
>>19561768 Why the Indigenous voice to parliament is a Thatcher-esque project - "Earlier this week I received an email from a constituent named Les. Les is a retiree and shared with me how he is being squeezed with rising medicine, food and power costs. He didn't hold back in asking me why I was advocating for the voice when so many Australians were hurting financially. It was a legitimate question to ask. I think many Australians are asking: why should we vote Yes in this referendum when the economy is so tight? Surely there are better priorities. My answer to Les, and the many who share his view, is that the voice gives us the means to tackle the economic challenges facing so many Indigenous communities. By tackling these challenges we also can make our economy and the budget stronger." - Julian Leeser, Liberal member for Berowra in Sydney - theaustralian.com.au
>>19566036 'History is calling us': Yes campaign ramps up as thousands join in rallies across Australia - Thousands of supporters of the Voice to Parliament have taken to the streets across the country, with a crucial message for Aussies that "history is calling us" ahead of the October referendum. Supporters of the Yes campaign turned out in record numbers on Sunday afternoon across major cities including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra. It marks one of the biggest campaign pushes for the Yes vote since the referendum date was announced. Minister for Indigenous Australians told a roaring crowd in Melbourne's CBD that "history is calling us" and that "each and every one of you can help answer the call from generations of Indigenous people."
>>19566045 Video: Leading No campaigner Warren Mundine claims a treaty process will be more successful if No vote wins - Leading No campaigner Warren Mundine has backed a treaty process, claiming it's more likely to succeed if the No vote is successful. Mr Mundine, a Bundjalung man, also called for the date of Australia Day to be changed. Speaking on the ABC's Insiders program, Mr Mundine said there should be multiple, individual treaties, recognising Aboriginal nations. "We've got to recognise Aboriginal culture, Aboriginal culture is our First Nations and the first thing we learn about life is one nation cannot talk about another nation's country," he said.
>>19566056 OPINION: The movie that erased my doubts about the Voice - "I had reservations about the Voice until seeing a movie. I've long opposed a charter of rights because it might steer policymaking away from parliament and into courts. If there was someone on the Labor side who might have needed assurance the Voice would not do this, it might have been me. But not after the opening scene of High Ground. This 2020 movie, directed by Stephen Johnson, is set in Arnhem Land in the early 1920s. It is about race relations on the Australian frontier. It opens with Aboriginal people at a waterhole, an oasis of palms and running water. This peace is shattered by fire from repeater rifles. When it stops, the only sound is the flight of waterfowl and the buzzing of flies around black corpses. Blood runs in the sand. My response to the terrifying scene that opened High Ground went like this: "The survivors of this are saying that all they want is a pipeline to parliament called the Voice. That's all? Only access? Just give it to them. No argument. No delay." Metaphorically, the gunshots still echo. Only one group suffered massacres and now it's time to make amends. High Ground's footage is dramatised, but it's not fake. Doubters might stream it on SBS On Demand, where they can also find Rachel Perkins' The Australian Wars. It's time to let kindness have its day in public policy." - Bob Carr, former foreign affairs minister and NSW's longest serving premier - theage.com.au
#19822077 at 2023-10-29 04:57:31 (UTC+1)
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>>19487613 Video: No vote for Voice tips over 50 per cent as Coalition leads Labor on Newspoll primary vote - The Coalition has leapt ahead of Labor on primary votes for the first time since last year's election and ?Anthony Albanese has dipped into negative territory, as support for the voice dropped further following the ?referendum date announcement and the official launch of a six-week ?campaign. An exclusive Newspoll conducted for The Australian shows ?support for an Indigenous voice to parliament and executive government falling to 38 per cent and those intending to vote No rising to 53 per cent. This marks the first time that ?opposition to a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous voice to parliament and executive ?government has achieved an outright majority.
>>19493285 Anthony Albanese is burning through his political capital as the voice falters - "The political damage has begun. Anthony Albanese can no longer take comfort in the Yes campaign's ability to win over ?undecided voters. Even if it did, it appears this won't be enough. It now also has to convince a significant number of voters to change their minds. There are only six weeks to make up significant ground as support for the voice referendum ?continues to retreat. Something remarkable is going to have to happen, if it's not already too late." - Simon Benson - theaustralian.com.au
>>19493287 Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto confirms he'll say No on Indigenous voice to parliament - John Pesutto has declared he will vote No in next month's referendum, arguing that the objectives of the voice can be achieved without changing the Constitution. The Victorian Opposition Leader, in announcing his position, said he wanted a positive outcome for First Nations people and said this sentiment was shared between Yes and No voters alike. "Putting aside whether one supports or opposes the voice, I ?believe the objectives of the voice can be achieved without constitutional change," Mr Pesutto said.
>>19493306 Warring Indigenous groups unite against voice - The Yes campaign in Tasmania is being cruelled by power struggles between warring Indigenous groups whose opposition to the voice is driven by fear their rivals will control it. Yes campaigners are most ?confident in the left-leaning south, but No sentiment is fuelled by bitter conflict between Indigenous groups, particularly in the more conservative north and northwest. The longstanding peak Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, ?associated with prominent family groups, is battling what it claims are attempts by "tick-a-box" Indigenous people to gain influence and control over land and organisations. Hostility between the TAC and newer, regional-based Aboriginal corporations is most acute in the northwest, where the Circular Head Aboriginal Corporation has growing influence. The two groups are often at loggerheads - over Aboriginal identity, voting rights and land access - but are in furious agreement on one issue: the voice is no good.
>>19499246 Opponents to an Indigenous voice to parliament concede their campaign is 'low-key' - Opponents of an Indigenous voice to parliament are running a "low-key" ground campaign that's "not as flash" as the Yes side, according to leading No spokesman Warren Mundine, with the focus on reaching voters through social media platforms such as TikTok rather than door-knocking and holding daily public events. As the official campaign enters its second week, Mr Mundine declared the No camp's greatest campaigning technique was to let supporters knock on doors and talk with Australians because "they can't answer the questions".
>>19499267 Indigenous voice to parliament: Say Yes to embrace future of hope for our First Nations - "With the date of the referendum set, many Australians are now turning their attention to the choice they will make in just six weeks. On October 14, Australians will be asked a simple question: Do you support a change to the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice? Yes or no. The choice is simple: we can take the next step forward as a nation by embracing practical reconciliation or we can choose to close the door on recognition for Indigenous Australians. Embracing this moment, and choosing yes for constitutional recognition through a voice is our best chance of addressing the injustices of the past, and create structural change that will ensure Indigenous communities are listened to, so we can get better results." - Linda Burney, Indigenous Australians Minister - theaustralian.com.au
#19780543 at 2023-10-22 09:17:29 (UTC+1)
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>>19739995
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>>19780537
'Declaration of war': Mundine rejects criticism from Yes campaign
Mike Foley - October 22, 2023
Leading No campaigner in the Voice referendum Nyunggai Warren Mundine has dismissed as ridiculous and racist a claim from Indigenous leaders for Yes that he is a puppet of right-wing think tanks, as Anthony Albanese declares the referendum created a new national awareness of the disadvantage confronting First Nations peoples.
A draft document dated October 20 intended to be the first collective response of Indigenous leaders supporting the Yes campaign was to be released after a week of silence marking the referendum defeat.
A leaked copy of the statement was published by this masthead on Sunday and had been circulated among about 50 Indigenous people and organisations, including those associated with the Yes 23 and Uluru Dialogue campaigns.
The draft statement said the 61 per cent national No vote was "so appalling and mean-spirited as to be utterly unbelievable". It says the "shameful victory" belongs to right-wing think tanks the Institute of Public Affairs and the Centre for Independent Studies, and the media group News Corporation.
The statement, which is unsigned, has caused division among Indigenous leaders in the Yes camp. Some leaders declined to be part of it, saying it struck the wrong tone or that they disagreed with the points it made. Members of the Yes camp who were approached yesterday declined to comment.
The draft letter says Indigenous leaders Price, Senator Kerrynne Liddle, and Mundine who opposed the Voice to parliament "were just front people for three right-wing organisations".
"It is an old colonial tactic to use black people to fight black people," the statement says.
Mundine said he opposed the referendum because it was divisive between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. He said the draft letter "was a continuation of that".
"So much for reconciliation and uniting the country," he said. "This is a declaration of war, metaphorically.
"This insulting idea that we're some sort of puppet is just totally ridiculous.
"Saying that the No campaign had a racist base is just ridiculous."
Mundine said two-thirds of the population, drawing from a cross-section of society, voted No.
"It's almost Trumpism, quite frankly, that they're rejecting the vote of the people and it wasn't white people alone," Mundine said.
"I'm not going to claim that they were the majority, but there were quite a few indigenous people who voted No."
The draft letter says the lack of political bipartisan support was the determining factor in the referendum. It praises Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's "gallantry" in defeat. However, it says the prime minister's failure to blame No voters for their error is wrong.
"Once the Nationals and Liberals joined the No campaign the full arsenal of racism, ignorance and mean-spiritedness was unleashed and an unprecedented campaign of misinformation and disinformation was employed," the draft letter says.
Nationals leader David Littleproud, who pre-empted his Coalition colleagues in the Liberals by declaring first that his party supported the No case, said the failed Yes campaign was Albanese's fault.
"While I appreciate the disappointment by some Indigenous leaders for Yes, this was a democratically determined outcome the country made," Littleproud said.
"The loss of the referendum lays squarely at the feet of the prime minister. He misread the nation in putting forward a proposition that conflated recognition with more bureaucracy."
Albanese said he accepted the referendum result and said he was optimistic Australians would find a new path to reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
"There is a new national awareness of the need to close the gap. We can't continue to have an eight-year life expectancy gap between Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians," he said.
"We need to address issues of education, health, housing and other areas of disadvantage. We need to address the justice issues, which are there for all to see."
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/declaration-of-war-Mundine-rejects-criticism-from-yes-campaign-20231022-p5ee3g.html
#19769161 at 2023-10-20 12:20:20 (UTC+1)
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The referendum result has elevated Indigenous policy and unleashed a national debate on how best to address Indigenous dis?advantage. Aboriginal organisations and health experts - including child health researcher Fiona Stanley, after whom Western Australia's largest public hospital is named - united on Thursday to reject the push for a royal commission into indigenous child sexual abuse.
Professor Stanley and researcher Sandra Eades, a Noongar professor of child health, said the overwhelming factor predicting child maltreatment was already established: poverty and its associated problems such as poor housing, social unrest, substance abuse and parents' mental illness.
The alliance of organisations and leaders - including Pat Turner and Tony McAvoy, both members of Anthony Albanese's referendum working group - said Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people had already developed solutions.
Rather than hold another inquiry - which would be the 34th into child protection since 1997 - the group said the most effective and immediate action government could take to make children safe and protect their human rights would be to appoint a National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Commissioner with the legislated power to investigate and make recommendations.
"This will be more effective and more powerful than any royal commission," said the group, including Families Australia, Life Without Barriers, the National Coalition for Child Safety and Wellbeing. "The safety of children should not be politicised or used as a platform to advance a political position. It is frustrating and disappointing to hear the Opposition Leader and Senator Price repeating the same claims and calls they made earlier this year, again with no evidence and no credible solutions."
Indigenous entrepreneur Warren Mundine said the stance of organisations that did not want a royal commission into child sex abuse in Indigenous communities was disgusting.
"What have they got to fear?" Mr Mundine asked. "This is the difference between them and us. We want things fixed."
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/indigenous/silence-breaks-to-savage-jacinta-price-plan-for-aboriginal-child-abuse-royal-commission/news-story/c4aaf2ab952c4df9b597a1a3b193d569
https://www.snaicc.org.au/231019-joint-statement/
#19762128 at 2023-10-19 09:39:51 (UTC+1)
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Time to stop the Indigenous voice to parliament vitriol and move on, says Warren Mundine
ALEXI DEMETRIADI - OCTOBER 18, 2023
Leading No advocate Warren Mundine has said the "vitriol" and "hatred of people" in the days after the referendum result are the "worst I've seen".
Speaking to The Australian, Mr Mundine called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to "pour cold water" on the lingering post-vote attacks to "calm the situation down".
"We can't go on as a country like this," Mr Mundine said, referencing the egg attack on CLP senator Jacinta Price's parents and threats to No voters across the country.
"I know of people that are scared - the threats we've seen and things happening are just as bad as what happened during the campaign," he said.
The No advocate said he understood what the Yes camp - and its voters - were feeling, but that the country needed to "settle down" and "move forward" with closing the gap.
"I've been on the wrong end of a vote, it's shattering when it happens, I understand that," Mr Mundine said.
"But I didn't go out and abuse people (for voting a different way)."
He said attacks from Yes supporters pertaining to alleged misinformation and education of No voters showed they were "still attacking the public".
"I know that both Yes and No voters want to get things working for First Nations people struggling in terrible conditions - let's put personal things aside, we can't keep throwing rocks at each other," he said.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/indigenous/time-to-stop-the-vitriol-and-move-on-says-Warren-Mundine/news-story/7df0d03453b8c775860d156973a3affc
#19749445 at 2023-10-17 10:15:01 (UTC+1)
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ABC reporter says Indigenous communities to rethink whether 'kindness is the best approach'
An ABC reporter says the Voice result may cause Indigenous communities to rethink how they interact with the rest of Australia.
Frank Chung - October 16, 2023
An ABC journalist says the failure of the Voice referendum may cause Indigenous communities to rethink how they interact with the rest of Australia and whether "kindness is the best approach".
Indigenous leaders may no longer restrain their "black anger", according to the ABC's Indigenous Affairs reporter Isabella Higgins, who predicts a rise in "black sovereignty" and a rejection of the "Australian regime".
Higgins appeared on the ABC's Insiders panel on Sunday, the morning after the Voice to Parliament referendum was resoundingly defeated.
Asked about the mood among Indigenous Australians at the Yes event in Sydney's inner-west on Saturday night following the result, Higgins said the community was "resilient" and had "risen from the ashes many times".
"They said, our communities won't stop running if this is a No vote," she said.
"But I think it's also been the conventional wisdom in the communities that when we're talking about reconciliation, we use kind language, we're generous, we extend the hand of friendship, we invite people in to share our culture, and I think if we look at the campaign messaging around the Voice, it was similar to that.
"So I think this failing, this being rejected, so categorically by all Australians, it will change the way Indigenous Australians want to interact with the rest of the country. It will change whether kindness is the best approach.
"I think often in the community, it is well understood that black anger is not tolerated and so we see leaders pull in their rage, pull in their sadness and constantly use language of generosity, use graciousness to try and appeal to the Australian people. And after, this I think there will be a generation of leaders who have been burnt by this and who won't be interested in doing that any more."
Host David Speers asked if the result would "swell the ranks" of the "black sovereign movement" led by independent Senator Lidia Thorpe.
"I would not be surprised if more people pushed towards that message that comes from Lidia Thorpe about not engaging so much with mainstream Australia, not bowing to them, challenging the Australian regime," she said.
"And of course there will be anger, I think even if you weren't a card-carrying Yes voter in the Indigenous community, to see the vote, to see Australians reject this so categorically, that's really hard - to feel, to experience, the whole debate was very uncomfortable. It felt like at times the worth of an Indigenous life was being debated. So I think the message from people like Lidia Thorpe, the message around 'black sovereignty', will appeal more after this."
Asked earlier why she thought Australians voted No, Higgins said she had been surprised by the number of people at the polling booth in final week who still did not understand the proposal.
"We were hearing this from the Yes campaigners, from Anthony Albanese, a week out from this referendum we think 25 per cent of people haven't decided yet," she said.
"That's leaving a lot of truth-telling, a lot of winning over hearts and minds to the final seven days of this campaign. It was a huge job for them and they just couldn't do it in seven days. It was a difficult proposal, I think, for some people to get their heads around.
"I think for those who perhaps don't understand the lives of Indigenous Australians, who don't understand the inequity, the challenges to then try and understand this proposal and how that could that could potentially fix some of these things, it was too much for them to get their head around and in seven days that just wasn't going to happen."
Higgins also agreed with Speers that having Indigenous leaders Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Nyunggai Warren Mundine front the No campaign helped "confuse a lot of non-Indigenous Australians".
"I think she was an incredibly potent campaigner," she said.
"She was a relatively young Indigenous woman out there saying things that we often hear from a very different demographic, saying that colonisation hasn't negatively impacted Aboriginal people - I mean, that is patently untrue - but to see someone who looks like that from this community saying that, that absolutely confuses the Australian public. It is not true, but because she is saying it, people question it."
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/current-affairs/abc-reporter-says-indigenous-communities-to-rethink-whether-kindness-is-the-best-approach/news-story/032eec2a999e487a9f540a2291fa08c5
https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/1713423419084046800
#19745191 at 2023-10-16 09:42:56 (UTC+1)
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'Wake up to yourselves': Warren Mundine unleashes on reporters
Sky News Australia
Oct 15, 2023
Prominent No campaigner Warren Mundine lashed out at reporters following the Voice referendum defeat.
About nine million Australians voted at one of the 7,100 polling places around the country on the referendum day.
"Wake up to yourselves, people are committing suicides in these communities, people are being raped and beaten and this is the questions you come up with?" Mr Mundine said at a press conference on Saturday.
"We're about getting results - reducing suicides and instead of this nonsense that you people carry on with.
"It's about time we had a vote tonight that said Australians want to get things done - well stop talking about all this other nonsense … wake up to yourselves and tart asking real questions and making governments accountable."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_av7coHxye4
#19745190 at 2023-10-16 09:39:06 (UTC+1)
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>>19739995
>>19745124
Warren Mundine blasts journos at fiery post-Voice press conference in defence of Jacinta Price
Warren Mundine has said journalists needed to "wake up" to themselves after pursuing bizarre line of questioning with Jacinta Price.
James Morrow - October 15, 2023
Warren Mundine has blasted sections of the media for their treatment of fellow No campaigner and shadow Aboriginal Australians minister Jacinta Nampijinpa Price at a press conference Saturday, saying journalists needed to "wake up" to themselves.
"Wake up to yourselves, people are committing suicides in these communities, people are being raped and beaten and this is the questions you come up with?", Mr Mundine said after a series of questions about voting results in remote Aboriginal communities.
"We're about getting results - reducing suicides and instead of this nonsense that you people carry on with," he said.
"It's about time we had a vote tonight that said Australians want to get things done - well stop talking about all this other nonsense ... wake up to yourselves and start asking real questions and making governments accountable."
"People need to stop turning a blind eye to the violence, abuse, coercive control and destructive behaviour that goes on in some Indigenous communities."
Mr Mundine continued, launching a broadside at the architecture behind the Voice, and particularly the contents of the longer form of the Uluru Statement from the Heart that became a major point of dispute during the campaign.
"(The Voice) sees Indigenous Australians as trapped in victimhood and oppression. This is a lie. It includes a self-proclaimed history of Indigenous Australia, called Our Story. Written to shame Australians about their non-indigenous ancestors and Australia's founding," he said.
"No nation has had a perfect beginning. Most have had bloody and brutal beginnings founded in invasion, conquest, revolution or war. I don't judge a nation by the worst of its history, but how it seeks to become its better self."
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/Warren-Mundine-blasts-journos-at-fiery-postvoice-press-conference-in-defence-of-jacinta-price/news-story/79363ecc5bf1e5c3ab7768837c8e3ac2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp9iTOsRVxE
#19745124 at 2023-10-16 06:48:57 (UTC+1)
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Jacinta Price thanks nation for goodwill after voice referendum result
SARAH ELKS - OCTOBER 15, 2023
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Opposition leader Peter Dutton says the defeated referendum is "good for our country" and paid tribute to Warren Mundine and Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price for leading the No campaign and enduring "personal and offensive attacks".
Mr Dutton said "what matters tomorrow (is) that this result doesn't divide us".
He said he respected Yes voters' decision, even though he thought the voice was divisive, and a bad idea.
"This is the referendum Australia did not need to have," he said.
Mr Dutton attacked Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as not being across the detail.
"People from all sides of this debate are rightly and understandably disappointed with the Prime Minister," he said. "He must take responsibility for it."
Mr Dutton said Mr Albanese's priority now needed to be on the cost of living, but recommitted the opposition to a royal commission into child sexual abuse.
"For the past year, the Prime Minister and the government have been consumed by this referendum, and they've been focused on the wrong priorities," Mr Dutton said.
Senator Price thanked the Australian people for "believing in our great nation and the goodwill of this country".
"The vast majority of Australians want what's best for everyone of us, including the most marginalised Indigenous Australians," she said.
(continued)
#19734009 at 2023-10-14 07:52:12 (UTC+1)
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>>19733764
No campaign confident of victory as Albanese remains hopeful
David Crowe - October 14, 2023 - 6.00pm
The campaign against the Indigenous Voice is confident of victory after voting closed on Saturday in the referendum to decide whether to enshrine the new body in the nation's Constitution.
The Yes campaign mobilised up to 70,000 volunteers and gained a powerful presence at polling stations around the country but privately conceded the numbers were against them.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese brushed off questions about a defeat for the Voice at a final event in Sydney on Saturday morning to back the change, saying he remained "very hopeful of a Yes vote".
"What I see is hope and optimism. That's what this campaign has been about," he said.
"A Yes campaign that's been positive. A Yes campaign that has spoken about the future. A Yes campaign that spoke about us embracing each other and enlarging our country.
"And a No campaign that is based upon fear and us shrinking into ourselves.
"I want to lead a country that is outward looking, that is confident. That's why I said this is about respect for Indigenous Australians."
Australians cast 8.4 million votes before the final day of the referendum in early and postal voting, according to the Australian Electoral Commission, which meant about 9 million votes would need to have been cast on Saturday to achieve a full turnout.
"Of the 17.6 million people on the electoral roll, around 9.2 million need to visit a polling place today," the AEC said in a statement early on Saturday.
Insiders in the Yes and No camps have acknowledged the prospect that many Australians would not have bothered to vote, injecting some uncertainty into the results when all public opinion polls showed the No camp had a national majority of voters as well as a majority of states.
One of the leading figures in the Yes camp, Marcia Langton, acknowledged the prospect of defeat for the Voice by writing that "reconciliation is dead" in a commentary in The Saturday Paper.
Langton, a co-author of the report that advised the government on the design of the Voice, said Australians had been given the chance to accept or reject an invitation from First Australians to make a positive change.
"I hope I'm wrong, but everything around me is saying that today Australia will reject that invitation. It will choose to leave our hand outstretched," she wrote.
"The nation has been poisoned. There is no fix for this terrible outcome."
Speaking before polls closed, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton said Australians would vote against the Voice because the government had never told them the details about how it would operate.
"I can respect the fact that people are voting Yes or No, and I've advocated No because I just don't think we've got the detail - and if you don't understand it, don't vote for it," he said on Channel Seven's Weekend Sunrise program.
"It's a very significant change that's proposed to our Constitution, and if I thought it was going to provide the practical outcomes in Indigenous communities, then it would be a different story."
Nationals leader David Littleproud prepared for a No vote by saying the result of the referendum should lead to a dramatic shift in policy in Canberra to make sure the money being spent on Indigenous Australians was not wasted.
"There should be no guilt about the result that comes out tonight," he told reporters at a polling station in Brisbane. "This is a democratic process that the Australian people will determine. The Australian people always get it right."
Littleproud praised Coalition colleagues including Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, South Australian senator Kerrynne Liddle and No campaigner Nyunggai Warren Mundine for opposing the Voice, but he also commended Yes campaign spokesman Dean Parkin.
"Can I also say to Dean Parkin, who has led the Yes case - a great Australian as well, and he's come with this, with the right intent, as we have, and it's important," he said.
Littleproud called for a "2023 intervention" to overhaul policy, using language that echoed the Howard government's use of federal authorities to intervene in NT communities in 2007.
"That intervention needs to be in Canberra and getting them out of Canberra and getting them around campfires and town halls, listening to local elders," Littleproud said.
"Because if you empower those local elders in those remote areas, then you change lives. That's how you close the gap."
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/no-campaign-confident-of-victory-as-albanese-remains-hopeful-20231010-p5eb5r.html
#19733828 at 2023-10-14 05:25:18 (UTC+1)
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In Peter Dutton country, No holds its ground as voters question a lack of detail
James Massola, Jocelyn Garcia and Lachlan Abbott - October 14, 2023
The No campaign is confident it will secure victory in the Voice to parliament referendum, with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton suggesting a record number of Australians could oppose the constitutional change.
While Dutton did not invite media to attend a polling place when he voted in his electorate of Dickson on Saturday afternoon, prominent No campaigner Nyunggai Warren Mundine was out on the hustings and the opposition's Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was on Saturday afternoon due to fly from Alice Springs to Brisbane, where the official No campaign will gather to watch the vote count.
The federal opposition leader told Channel Seven's Weekend Sunrise that Anthony Albanese's decision to hold a referendum had divided the country.
"I wrote to the prime minister in January of this year with 15 reasonable questions, he's never replied to that letter. He's never answered the queries that millions of Australians have," he said.
"He was told all year not to go down this path. If he was going to have a referendum, do it on recognition because 70, 80, 90 per cent of Australians would support recognition being enshrined in the Constitution, but he didn't do that, and because the Voice is in there, people now it seems, in record numbers are going to vote against it."
In Dutton's seat of Dickson, at the Pine Rivers State High School, a steady stream of voters were turning up at the temporary polling place to cast their votes on a hot Saturday afternoon.
People voting No were thick on the ground and both the Yes and No campaigns had several volunteers outside the entrance to the polling centre.
Bryan and Amy, a married couple who are Strathpine locals, were both emphatic No voters.
"There just wasn't enough clarity from the government to explain what the process was going to be and what the actual outcomes were going to be, it was just massive red flags," Brian said.
"They had massive corporations all on board, BHP and Qantas. That just feels like more red flags, the only reason they'd be on board is to make a profit. That's what it's all about."
Bryan said the campaign had been unfortunate because "no one wants division between any race in this country, we are all equal" but Yes campaigners had been "arrogant".
Robert, another Strathpine local, said he had voted No because "I don't like the idea of dividing our nation. Government should already be taking into account [the needs] of everyone, [regardless of] race, religion or creed".
His friend Natasha, who usually votes Greens, said she had been completely torn and could have gone either way. The decisive factor for her had been some Indigenous leaders speaking out.
"I was actually Yes in the beginning but then after hearing from more people, especially Aboriginal elders that I have respected a lot, I've listened to a lot more of that. And I think that's kind of swayed me a bit," she said.
" I think, also, something my husband said to me, he's like, 'so if we do this for Indigenous Australians, then who next?' What other nationality that's in Australia? You know, the Chinese, do they then get a Voice?"
But in Brisbane's suburb of West End, resident Peter Branjerdporn wore an "Always Was and Always Will Be" shirt as he joined a throng of voters at the inner-city West End State School.
"I voted Yes today because I'm a pharmacist and I really think we need to close the gap," he said. "I do believe the Voice will inform the decisions that are made."
Branjerdporn said other health professionals he had spoken to helped him decide which way to vote.
In Melbourne's Reservoir, progressive No campaigner, independent senator Lidia Thorpe, voted at the Northern School for Autism.
Thorpe, a Djabwurrung Gunnai Gunditjmara woman who quit the Greens over the Voice and who has long called for a treaty to be prioritised ahead of the body, said it would not make a difference to Indigenous lives.
"How dare 97 per cent of this country decide our destiny," she told reporters.
"This referendum has done nothing but hurt people, divide communities, divide families."
As she cast her ballot, she said it was a "sad day".
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/in-peter-dutton-country-no-holds-its-ground-as-voters-question-a-lack-of-detail-20231010-p5eb5x.html
#19720229 at 2023-10-12 09:11:34 (UTC+1)
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Noel Pearson urges voters to consider future generations at last-ditch Yes campaign rally for the Voice
Cason Ho - 12 October 2023
Prominent Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has compared the politicisation of the Voice to Parliament referendum to vandalism, in a last-minute pitch to voters.
Speaking at a Yes event in central Perth today, the co-architect of the Uluru Statement From the Heart attempted to appeal to undecided voters.
"My last pitch, on behalf of this referendum campaign, is to say to those Australians who are undecided, who are still thinking about yes or no - don't slam the door on the children," he said.
"This is not about Noel Pearson or Patrick Dodson, or Jacinta Price or Warren Mundine - we are the past, the children are the future, we're doing this for them."
Australians will vote on Saturday on whether an Indigenous Voice to Parliament should be enshrined in the constitution.
The Voice would be an independent body advising parliament and government about matters affecting the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, but would have no legal power to enforce its recommendations.
Lament for bipartisanship
Mr Pearson equated the politicisation of the referendum to vandalism, stating there was bipartisan support for the Voice in the past.
"We had bipartisanship for so long - It's the political parties and the politicians that have vandalised this," he said.
Despite polls signifying falling support for the Voice would likely lead to a victory for the No campaign in the referendum, Mr Pearson said he still held hope.
"It's not in the hands of the politicians, it's in the hands of the Australian people," he said.
Campaign hurt by 'botched' heritage laws
On the other side of the debate, opponents of the Voice were already considering what they'll do if the referendum doesn't pass.
"If, as expected, Western Australia's verdict is a no, then I'll be calling upon the Cook government to make sure it does respect that verdict, and doesn't take any further steps towards legislating a state Voice to Parliament," WA opposition and Nationals leader Shane Love said.
Mr Love said he believed it was "virtually impossible" for the majority of Western Australians to vote Yes, after confusion over the state's Aboriginal cultural heritage laws bled into the Voice debate.
"I think if it had any chance before the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act, and the botched rollout of it, it was certainly sunk come July when that act was implemented."
Dodson 'not guided by polls'
Speaking outside a voting poll in Broome, Indigenous WA senator Patrick Dodson said he was still confident of a Yes vote at the referendum.
"I'm optimistic that the Australian people will support this referendum. I'm not necessarily guided by the polls, I think the Australian public will decide," he said.
That optimism was shared by former federal Liberal Indigenous affairs minister Ken Wyatt, who also cast his vote today.
"Even walking here this morning, I had people say 'I am voting Yes because I believe in giving Aboriginal people a voice'," he said.
"This is about us asking for our chance to co-design, co-plan, and be involved in decisions that are made about us."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-12/noel-pearson-urges-yes-vote-at-voice-campaign-perth-yes-event/102967826
#19720215 at 2023-10-12 09:04:32 (UTC+1)
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Voice referendum: Patrick Dodson says nation faces path akin to post-apartheid South Africa if Yes fails
ROSIE LEWIS - OCTOBER 11, 2023
Patrick Dodson says Australia will need to take a path similar to South Africa following the abolishment of apartheid if the voice referendum is voted down and must develop a new way of ascertaining the views of Indigenous people.
The father of reconciliation said he was hopeful an Indigenous voice to parliament would be legislated by the next election, due in 2025, if the Yes vote won while issuing several stark warnings three days out from polling day, including that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people "can't live in your own country and not be recognised".
The West Australian senator, who has lost his beard and is still recovering from cancer, gave his only public speech during the voice referendum campaign to the National Press Club on Wednesday.
"If we say No ... we're going to have to look in the mirror and say who the hell are we, what have we done, and now what are we going to do about it?" Senator Dodson said
"The challenge will be for us to try and develop what the South Africans did when they got rid of the apartheid regime. They had to develop these dialogues and scenario planning processes and develop a truth and reconciliation commission in order for that country to try and heal from the woefulness of that apartheid policy and try to go forward.
"We would have to seriously look at getting rid of these notions of consultation and simply bringing some groups together and getting what they want to say. It's going to be a structured process because the nation is bogged down in division here."
Senator Dodson acknowledged the Albanese government had committed to implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full, which asks for voice, treaty and truth-telling, and would have to consider how to fulfil the second and third requests.
He said it was a challenge for the Australian people as much as the government to determine how the nation heals from any No vote.
"You can't deny a people whose culture has been here for 60,000 years. If that's what happens with a No vote, that's what you're doing, you're saying 'you people have no history here, you have no legitimacy here, you have no right to be here'. That's an intolerable proposition," Senator Dodson said.
"We have to change the methodology by how you ascertain the views and interests of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, but also try to decide what scenarios that could be possible for better this service delivery, better participation, better quality of outcomes and greater levels of governance for First Peoples in the way that things get done."
While polling has consistently shown falling support for the voice during the official campaign, with just a small bounce in some polls, Senator Dodson said he didn't believe in the polls and was still confident the Yes camp could win over enough voters to succeed.
Peter Dutton cautioned Australians against casting an informal vote "in what is probably the most important ballot that you'll cast in your lifetime", urging people intending to vote No to vote early or on Saturday.
"We can't afford for complacency to allow the Yes vote to get up, because it's not in our country's best interests," he said.
"This is a new chapter being inserted into our Constitution - the first time ever since federation that's been proposed. There's been no constitutional convention, the process to design the voice doesn't start until after the vote has taken place, again, without precedent."
Yes23 is targeting Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia in the final three days of the campaign, telling undecided voters about the consequences of a No vote and pushing the still "significant support" among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Leading No campaigners Warren Mundine and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price will be in Tasmania, Alice Springs and Sydney before finishing the campaign together in Queensland on Friday and Saturday.
They will talk about the "voice of division", in messaging that hasn't changed since day one of the campaign.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/voice-referendum-patrick-dodson-says-nation-faces-path-akin-to-postapartheid-south-africa-if-yes-fails/news-story/d94d2bfbdf0ff9a24f59c8e0da375f32
#19672558 at 2023-10-05 11:54:12 (UTC+1)
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A No campaign spokesman said he didn't know these people, had never met them and didn't agree with their views.
He said leading No campaigners Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Warren Mundine had been abused by "aggressive" and "violent" Yes supporters.
"There are literally tens of thousands of people involved with the campaign on both sides, and no doubt a wildly divergent number of views," he said.
"The hypocrisy of the government and the Yes campaign is breathtaking - while simultaneously preaching unity they background media to divide Australians. While launching baseless accusations about people 'hijacking' the No campaign, they are openly and gratefully receiving the formal endorsement and support from the Communist Party."
The Communist Party is set to host an "interactive discussion" with Yes23 campaigner Shireen Morris on Sunday while the Search Foundation, which describes itself as a successor to the CPA, has hosted Indigenous leader and militant unionist Thomas Mayo.
"(Prominent Yes campaigner) Megan Davis marched in front of a Communist flag the other day. I don't think she's a Communist. I think when you divide the country what you're going to have is extremes of both ends come up and support either end," the No campaign spokesman said.
"I don't think that's where campaigns are won and lost. They're won and lost by the swing voter who comes to the table without a position and says I've listened to both campaigns, who will I back?"
The flyer criticised by the ECAJ is emblazoned with pictures of prominent Jewish advocates of the voice including Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, NSW Liberal MP Julian Leeser and lawyer Mark Liebler, as well as Indigenous leader Thomas Mayo.
The Nationalist Socialist Movement Australia has also been active on Telegram, encouraging members to show up to their local No voice rally, blend in and "drop FACTS on the Jewish involvement in the Yes campaign".
ECAJ chief executive Alex Ryvchin said the voice was just the latest attempt in recent years by the far-right to latch onto popular debates and reorientate public discussion to focus on Jewish people.
"What is particularly troubling about this incident is that it mirrors the language and tactics of US neo-Nazis," he said.
"It is absolutely essential that we as a society commit to education about antisemitism and the ruin brought by anti-Jewish conspiracy theories. If we fail, the sort of lethal attacks inspired by this propaganda that are routine in the US will begin to hit our shores."
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/marcus-stewart-blair-cottrell-and-ecaj-say-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-no-campaign-target-of-farright/news-story/2da7ef2848da65f9529a94f06204e31d
#19664413 at 2023-10-04 10:28:44 (UTC+1)
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>>19606805
Bizarre road sign vandals popping up in one state
DUNCAN EVANS - OCTOBER 4, 2023
Police are hunting for vandals who defaced speed limit road signs to read 'No' across regional South Australia in another mark of a growing ugliness in the Voice to parliament referendum campaign.
Motorists across the state reported the altered signs, with the 110 speed limit figure vandalised to read "No" in an apparent reference to the campaign, now in its final two weeks before the October 14 vote.
A Department of Transportation spokesman confirmed on Wednesday at least two speed signs, one on the Barrier Highway at Burra and another on Worlds End Highway at Robertson had been vandalised.
"Road signs and infrastructure are very important for driver safety," the spokesman said.
"Maintenance crews are currently checking other signage in the area for vandalism.
"Defacing road infrastructure is a criminal offence which carries a maximum penalty of $5000 or one year imprisonment."
A South Australian Police spokesman said the police were aware of the vandalism and were investigating.
Under Section 17 of the Road Traffic Act 1961, traffic control devices may only be installed, maintained, altered, operated and removed with the minister's approval.
The vandalism poses a safety threat to motorists because speed limits in the regions oscillate between 100 and 110 limits.
Leaders from both sides of the campaign have called for greater civility in the contentious debate on Constitutional recognition, which has been tinged with unsavoury rhetoric and behaviour.
At a rally in Adelaide to launch the South Australia No campaign in September, No supporters were branded as "racist" and "pigs" by protesters.
Leading No campaigner Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO has been accused of stoking vitriol when he posted to X, formerly Twitter, he would like to see former boxer Anthony Mundine fight Yes advocate Thomas Mayo.
Polls show the No camp ahead with less than two weeks to go and an exit poll conducted by The Adelaide Advertiser suggests a majority of South Australians will likely reject the Voice.
The Advertiser spoke with 291 voters at five different pre-polling booths spread across Greater Adelaide on Tuesday, with 169 saying they voted 'no' and 122 saying they voted 'yes' for a 58-42 split in favour of No.
But the Yes camp is confident it can still secure victory and Yes23 volunteers plan to make a million phone calls to undecided voters before October 14 to persuade them to vote Yes.
Yes23 campaign director Dean Parkin said the Yes camp would focus on "meaningful conversations" with Australians who had not made up their minds.
"We know many Australians are only starting to turn their minds to the referendum now," he said.
"We'll be making every effort to engage with these voters and have conversations about the importance of a successful Yes vote.
"We're turning up the dial when it comes to our engagement with Australians.
"We'll be having genuine, in-depth conversations with undecided voters about how this is a simple and modest proposal that has come directly from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people."
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/breaking-news/bizarre-road-sign-vandals-popping-up-in-one-state/news-story/8e17b4a2b365d7565c9cb3e8000ccd12
#19664328 at 2023-10-04 09:46:07 (UTC+1)
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But it is not merely symbolic, it is practical too. By enshrining an Indigenous advisory body in the Constitution, it means the idea cannot be abolished. Future parliaments and governments must have a formalised body made up of Indigenous Australians, chosen by Indigenous Australians, to provide advice on matters that affect them.
It is only advice. Whether or not the advice is followed or rejected will depend on the quality of that advice. The genius of this proposal is that the parliament, the elected representative body of all Australians, remains supreme. It will have the power to decide how the voice is structured and how it works. If it does not operate effectively, parliament can abolish it and form a new advisory body. The referendum only provides the opportunity for First Australians to be heard.
This is the message of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, a short one-page document developed after extensive consultation with Indigenous Australians that extended a hand of friendship and reconciliation to all Australians. It is a document that eloquently made the case for a future with hope and opportunity for all.
The integrity of this proposal and its compatibility with our Constitution and system of government have been endorsed by former High Court judges, our premier law societies and most eminent constitutional scholars. So there is nothing to fear with this change to our Constitution. It is far from radical or revolutionary. The parliament cedes no decision-making power to the voice.
The No camp is led by populist reactionary conservatives, many of whom have been propagating lies and misinformation about the voice, and some have peddled unadulterated racism. It has been sickening to observe organisations such as CPAC Australia provide a platform for bigotry. And dangerous to see them attack the integrity of the Australian Electoral Commission.
There is no agreed alternative pathway for reconciliation and recognition offered by the No camp. Its leading proponents, including Warren Mundine, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Peter Dutton and David Littleproud, disagree on treaties, alternative voice bodies and a future, recognition-only referendum. They cannot explain how defeating this referendum will make Indigenous Australians better off.
As I have noted in previous columns, the referendum does not inject racial division in the Constitution; it is already there in sections 51 (xxvi) and 25. It does not confer a special class of citizenship; we have long recognised the traditions and cultures of First Australians in legal judgments, laws and programs. Nor will the voice lead to endless litigation, with former High Court chief justice Robert French explaining there is "little or no scope" for this.
This referendum is about recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians in the Constitution and establishing an advisory body to improve policy outcomes. It is about listening to and respecting them and their unique place in the story of this continent. It is an act of reconciliation. And it offers a chance for all of us to embrace change for a better future for all Australians.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/close-the-gap-no-camps-lack-of-vision-is-staggering/news-story/85781cc487e83923aaf4a4e196db4e85
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#19664316 at 2023-10-04 09:35:45 (UTC+1)
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Price's suggestion of an immediate audit of all this expenditure is a good one. Failure to get the voice will be no excuse for the Albanese government not to do whatever is necessary in Indigenous policy.
Similarly, the Yes case simply asserts, without ever demonstrating, that there would be no High Court litigation, no new process delays or unintended constitutional consequences from the voice. This is against all Australian constitutional experience.
In administrative law, activist judges frequently reverse a ministerial decision by finding that the minister failed to give sufficient consideration to the views of some body they are supposed to consult. With the voice having a right to consultation in the Constitution, the potential for delay, cost escalation and utterly unpredictable constitutional fallout is obvious.
The Prime Minister asserts it's ridiculous to think the voice would want, or have, a say on defence policy. But activists involved in design of the voice explicitly do want joint sovereignty or some such nonsense. Certainly it's not remotely far-fetched to imagine an activist body arguing that sacred lands would be defiled by the presence of nuclear-powered submarines, or fighter bombers, or the like.
The whole Yes construct that this is a campaign by the marginalised against the powerful is colossally absurd and a complete reversal of the truth. This is a campaign of massive institutional power - the government, the ABC, the richest corporations, trade unions - all attempting to browbeat and morally coerce the Australian people into voting Yes. A No vote will be a magnificent declaration of independence by voters.
The biggest factor convincing people to vote No is the concern that the voice, and the insertion of racial categories into the Constitution, will divide rather than unite Australians. In coming to this conclusion the Australian people are demonstrating the wisdom of crowds. Injecting racial categories into the Constitution guarantees that our politics will revolve around the sterile and deadly culture of identity politics. People are right to reject that.
The second big factor is a perfectly sensible concern that a Yes vote will come with other costs - instability, financial liability, unintended consequences. The third factor is deep respect for the stability of the Constitution. The Yes campaign never dealt meaningfully and respectfully with any of these issues.
The fourth dynamic changing people to No voters has been Price and Nyunggai Warren Mundine demonstrating that not all Indigenous Australians support the voice.
Price's superb advocacy of a new way of doing Indigenous politics is the single most positive, hopeful development in this field in many years. If the Liberal and National parties don't develop the Price insights into a general approach they are even dumber than they sometimes look. Price offers the insight that advancement for Indigenous people is neither primarily a constitutional question nor even narrowly a political one. It surely involves good access to services, but it also involves individual agency, economic advancement, productive integration into all the opportunities of a modern society.
Help to overcome disadvantage is one thing. Making disadvantage your raison d'etre, creating a permanent grievance industry, is something altogether different. In the end, Australia is not one nation for two peoples. It's one nation for many, many people, all of them absolutely equal in civic status.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/yes-case-cant-escape-contrary-arguments/news-story/4700d63db1c807c94502ea361ed2dd56
#19656285 at 2023-10-03 08:53:57 (UTC+1)
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No campaigners warn against complacency at Perth event as Voice referendum draws closer
James Carmody - 3 October 2023
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More than 1,000 people have gathered at an event in Perth to hear leaders of the No campaign warn against complacency ahead of the referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
With the polls already open for early voting and less than a fortnight until referendum day, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Nyunggai Warren Mundine were greeted like rock stars at the event on Monday night.
Speaking to the crowd at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, Mr Mundine warned volunteers and campaigners for the No camp not to get complacent.
"The battle is not over yet, we've still got to get out there and fight every day," he said.
The room was a sea of orange "No" posters, hats, and T-shirts, which featured the slogan "Vote no to a Voice of division".
Senator Nampijinpa Price was greeted with a standing ovation when she addressed the audience.
"It's such a pleasure being back here in Western Australia in Perth, you guys are absolutely bringing it," the Northern Territory senator for the Country Liberal Party said.
"I am filled with so much hope, my heart is filled with so much love for this country, love for the Australian people, love for the fact that we are reigniting our Australian spirit.
"This vote is 'no' to division but 'yes' to bringing back our beautiful Australian values."
The pair appeared alongside master of ceremonies for the evening Matthew Sheahan, from conservative lobby group Advance Australia.
"Make no mistake, this is going to be close," Mr Sheahan told the crowd.
"If we get complacent, if we don't volunteer, if we don't continue to talk to family and friends about the dangers of the Voice, they can still steal it from us.
"And we can't allow that to happen."
Outside the venue a small group of protesters gathered, mostly students from the Socialist Alternative.
Noongar Minang man and Aboriginal activist Mervyn Eades spoke at the protest and declared Senator Nampijinpa Price was not welcome on Noongar land, before going on to condemn comments she made at the National Press Club last month.
In her Press Club address, Senator Nampijinpa Price denied First Nations Australians were currently being negatively impacted by colonisation.
First Nations health professionals and those living with chronic health issues said they were "disappointed" and "deeply saddened" by the comments.
Other protesters also took aim at Senator Nampijinpa Price in chants outside the venue.
The protesters were met by counter-protesters who were attending the event in Perth.
A number of police officers kept the two groups apart as they traded chants and insults.
One man was escorted away by police after he tried to enter the venue.
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#19637818 at 2023-09-30 12:53:24 (UTC+1)
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>>19606805
Black Peoples Union rallies to say No to the Voice
DUNCAN EVANS - SEPTEMBER 30, 2023
The radical No vote to an Indigenous Voice to Parliament found its own voice in Canberra on Saturday, with the revolutionary Black Peoples Union holding a meeting to reject moderation and reconciliation in favour of a "reckoning" with Australia's past and political foundation.
Keiran Stewart-Assheton, a Wani-Wandi man of the Yuin Nation and national president of the BPU, wants voters to reject the Voice, which would embed an Indigenous-led advisory body into the Constitution, in favour of a revolution to overthrow the liberal foundations of modern Australia.
Speaking before the meeting, Mr Stewart-Assheton said he wanted to replace the current political structure with the governance models that existed in First Nations communities before European settlement, what he terms a "proto-communist" model.
"Our systems governments are very different, the closest I suppose in similarity would be some form of communism or socialism, but ultimately it's not those either," he said.
"It's very much its own thing that hasn't been properly documented and labelled in English."
The BPU rejects Australia's Constitutional order but Mr Stewart-Assheton said the group did not want to return to pre-colonial life.
"We want to retain the structures of our First Nations governance models but apply them to our modern era," he said.
"So we are not talking about going back to living in the bush and no electricity and no running water, we're just talking about instead replacing the government model and the economic model that we have for one that's more community-driven and one that actually caters to the working class as opposed to an elite minority of capitalists."
His vision includes the appropriation of land and bringing mining companies under state control.
BPU activists will vote No alongside Indigenous campaigners such as Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO, but the link to Conservative No sentiment is tactical and ephemeral, with the BPU rejecting any kind of settlement or conformity with mainstream Australian life.
Ngambri woman and BPU vice-president Leah House said the Voice would create an "illusion of progress" while allowing the Australian government to continue its "theft and exploitation" of Indigenous land and resources.
"We already have a voice, you're just not listening," she said.
"We hope people will come and hear what we have to say. The Black Peoples Union is firmly opposed to the proposal for a Voice to Parliament."
Mr Stewart-Assheton said the BPU's philosophy of a "progressive No" was gaining ground before the October 14 referendum day.
"Our campaign has definitely grown and picked up," he said.
"When we started only a few months ago we were just this radical little fringe minority group that nobody was really paying much attention to, but we've been putting out consistent analysis on the Voice which is something that both the conservative No and the Yes campaigns aren't doing.
"We're one of the only people out here actually putting out the facts about what this whole proposition is and its history as opposed to all the other camps that are just relying on people's hope, faith and fear."
BPU ideology has a line into parliament through Senator Lydia Thorpe, who also rejects the Voice as a smokescreen for what she sees as the continued repression of Indigenous Australians.
"The Voice is the easy way to fake progress, without actually having to change a thing," she said in her speech to the National Press Club in August.
"It is a destructive distraction, absolving the government of its continued crimes."
It is understood a staff member of Senator Thorpe attended the BPU meeting.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/breaking-news/black-peoples-union-rallies-to-say-no-to-the-voice/news-story/00132127ca7ef73283b2705fd1baaca2
#19637799 at 2023-09-30 12:47:00 (UTC+1)
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>>19606805
'Blak sovereignty' leaders switch to Yes, isolating Lidia Thorpe
David Crowe and James Massola - September 29, 2023
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Key opponents of the Indigenous Voice have switched sides in the final weeks of the referendum to back the Yes case after rising fears that a No victory would align them with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton or One Nation leader Pauline Hanson.
The moves reveal the concerns among "progressive No" activists who initially rejected the Voice in favour of stronger action - such as a treaty first - but have moved away from the hardline stance taken by Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe.
But Thorpe said the Blak Sovereignty movement, which she leads, was "growing exponentially" and would continue to oppose the Voice, saying she would not switch sides despite calls from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for her support.
With early voting opening on Monday, the Yes campaign is trying to win back voters who have been swayed by conservative critics who say the Voice goes too far and "progressive No" leaders such as Thorpe who see the Voice as a retreat on sovereignty and treaty.
Thorpe's case has lost ground, however, among some Indigenous people who have shifted to the Yes side as polling day draws closer.
Melbourne activist Tarneen Onus Browne said they were a "hard No" and actively campaigned against the Voice until changing their mind when they saw the risk of a No victory.
"It is dangerous to those of us in Indigenous communities because of the racism and discrimination it amps up, and I hope to never see another community group be put in danger of right-wing conservatives in a national vote," they said.
"The racist No campaign is dangerous in so many ways and it has made it OK for neo-Nazis to go out onto the streets of Melbourne - and it's important for this country to send a message to them by writing Yes in the upcoming referendum."
Onus Browne is a community organiser for Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance and made headlines five years ago for telling an Invasion Day rally they hoped Australia would "burn to the ground" - a remark they said was about the need for total change to the political system.
"I agree with much of what the progressive No represents, not the racist No - they are two very different campaigns," they said.
Anti-Voice campaigners such as Nyunggai Warren Mundine have rejected claims their campaign appeals to racism in the community after Yes leader Marcia Langton said earlier this month the No case used racist tactics.
Meriki Onus, a Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman and an organiser for the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance, said a key factor for her was the way the First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria showed how a federal body could work.
"I agree with much of what the No position is, however, I'm leaning towards voting Yes," she said.
"We've seen an example in Australia where a body similar to the Voice to parliament already functions, and I think that they do really good work and there's amazing opportunity there. So I would be leaning towards a Yes."
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#19623907 at 2023-09-28 12:02:46 (UTC+1)
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>>19606805
Albanese government says far-right influencers are infiltrating the campaign against an Indigenous voice to parliament
ROSIE LEWIS - SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Senior government minister Murray Watt has accused far-right influencers of "appearing to hijack the No campaign", as Fair Australia dismisses Yes camp warnings Warren Mundine was "encouraging violence" through a controversial tweet.
Both sides of the voice referendum debate have accused each other of violence and abuse, with a clash between Yes and No supporters outside a No campaign event in Brisbane on Wednesday night the latest confrontation on the campaign trail.
A member of the local chapter of the Proud Boys Ben Shand, known as the Dusty Bogan, was at the event headlined by Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Mr Mundine.
Government sources said this appeared to be part of a larger pattern of infiltration of the Proud Boys in the official No campaign, with Mr Shand asking his followers to "jump on the bandwagon boys" and volunteer for Fair Australia.
A government source said polling booths staffed by members of a right-wing group known for political violence could pose a security risk at polling places.
Former Gold Coast Young LNP chair Barclay McGain, who was suspended from the party and then resigned after video emerged of him laughing at a school leaver's suggestion Australia should stop celebrating Indigenous culture because it "couldn't even invent the bloody wheel", was also at Wednesday's No campaign event, which was attended by an estimated 950 people.
Tom Sewell, a neo-Nazi and self-proclaimed leader of the National Socialist Network, and self-described "white advocate" Joel Davis were at anti-voice rallies on the weekend, which were not organised by the No campaign.
Mr Sewell has been recruiting volunteers while quoting Senator Price warning against dividing the country along the lines of race.
Senator Watt said "some nasty elements" had joined No rallies.
"Now we're seeing them appearing to hijack the No campaign," he told The Australian.
"This is really concerning. Peter Dutton has demanded a high standard from yes campaigners in this debate - I expect he holds those same standards for the No campaign. He needs to explain what he's doing to make sure Liberal and other referendum volunteers aren't being exposed to these kind of nasty characters. We all have a responsibility to have a positive, respectful debate."
The Opposition Leader's spokeswoman noted he'd been on the record numerous times calling for the debate to be civil and respectful and he didn't control who was invited to events or what people said.
Fair Australia lashed Senator Watt's attack as "just desperate and divisive nonsense".
"They (the Yes campaign) should explain why Uluru Dialogue chairman Megan Davis marched beneath a Communist Party of Australia flag at the recent Yes rallies. Or why Yes23 board member Thomas Mayo gave regular briefings to the Search Foundation, which markets itself as a 'successor organisation of the Communist Party of Australia'," Fair Australia's spokesman said.
"Or why Yes23 volunteers are spitting on people and racially abusing Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Nyunggai Warren Mundine?"
Yes23 and the Uluru Dialogue, of which Professor Davis is co-chair, were approached for comment. There was a Communist Party flag behind Professor Davis at a Yes rally but she was not holding it - she was holding a "You're the voice: vote Yes" poster - or directly beneath it.
The No campaign was accused of "encouraging violence" on Thursday after Mr Mundine said he'd like to see a boxing fight between voice opponent and professional boxer Anthony Mundine and prominent voice supporter Thomas Mayo.
"I want to see that!!!" Mr Mundine tweeted on Wednesday alongside an emoji of a boxing glove and a Daily Mail story with the headline "No supporter Anthony Mundine says he wants to fight Voice architect Thomas Mayo".
The Uluru Dialogue, which helped create the Uluru Statement, responded: "After encouraging its volunteers to stoke confusion and fear among Australians, the No campaign has now made the abhorrent leap to encouraging violence.
"While Yes leader Noel Pearson spoke yesterday in the National Press Club of uniting Australians in love of country for a more positive future, No leader Warren Mundine publicly endorsed threats of violence against other Yes spokespeople. Could there be a clearer illustration of the choice for Australian people on 14 October?"
A Fair Australia spokesman said it was the Yes campaign "trying to divide Australians with the voice of division", defending Mr Mundine's tweet as "lighthearted".
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/albanese-government-says-farright-influencers-are-infiltrating-the-campaign-against-an-indigenous-voice-to-parliament/news-story/7a6623f5d1dfb4e35261aecaa0a21a12
#19623899 at 2023-09-28 11:58:18 (UTC+1)
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The Voice changes Australian law and risks reparations
ROBERT GOTTLIEBSEN - SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
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Former ALP president later turned Liberal, Nyunggai Warren Mundine, has declared the Uluru Statement from the Heart a declaration of war against modern Australia.
Immediately other Indigenous Australians disagreed. But this week I was privileged to receive a detailed legal opinion on the implications of the Uluru statement for modern Australia from Terence Cole, KC, one of Australia's best known jurists having been a judge on the NSW Supreme Court and presiding over a number of royal commissions.
Many KCs in Australia are reluctant to comment publicly on the Voice referendum because they fear they would lose their government jobs. Cole is now retired so can speak frankly. Cole does not endorse Mundine's war prediction but warns Australians about the future reparations they may face and the fundamental changes that implementation of the Uluru statement would bring to the Australia's legal system.
He concludes: "The potential for great and irremediable harm to Australian society means that The Voice should never be incorporated in the constitution."
Cole points out that some Indigenous Australians and Torres Strait Islanders want much more than recognition. They want the constitution changed to incorporate their Uluru claimed rights so that in the future, those Uluru rights cannot be abolished.
And already three demands of the Uluru statement have accepted entirely by our Prime Minister - the Voice body, a Makarrata commission and "truth telling about our history".
But Cole says Uluru also claims Aboriginal "ownership of the soil ... of sovereignty based on prior occupation", and asserts that such sovereignty has never been ceded or extinguished and co-exists with the sovereignty of the crown.
Cole concludes that when asked to vote to amend the constitution to incorporate the Voice, Australians need to understand that some will use it to support the demands for recognition of coexisting sovereignty, a Makarrata commission designed to produce a treaty, monetary compensation for past events, and a rewriting of Australian history.
Cole might not attach Mundine's description of Uluru as a "declaration of war" but he shows how the proposed changes to property rights will create deep divisions among the population.
Cole explains that the Uluru statement appears to be a claim that there presently exists an unextinguished and unlimited claim of ownership of the soil concurrently with the well recognised sovereignty of the Commonwealth Australia over Australian territory.
Under existing Australian law, ownership of soil and land and water is determined not by Indigenous spiritual notions but by the statutes of the Commonwealth states and territories.
It seems the Voice will seek to change this basic structure of our governance and society.
The Uluru statement claims for reconciliation, a Makarrata commission and a treaty are based solely on race differential. They split Australians into two racial groups on a permanent basis. The first race comprises those identifying as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and the second the remaining 97 per cent of Australians.
Makarrata is an Indigenous concept of coming together after conflict and to date it has played no part in modern Australian law, politics, life or security. The Voice seeks to change that.
Cole points out that the 97 per cent of Australian non-Indigenous citizens, all born here since federation or arriving here as migrants and acquiring citizenship, are not in conflict with Aborigines or Torres Strait Islanders.
However, it is assumed by some Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander interests that because of their disposition, the injury or harm done to them and the destruction of their then primitive way of life by the infusion of different cultures, there needs to be a reconciliation between Australia and its present citizens and Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.
The Makarrata commission is to work on a final settlement and reconciliation between indigenous and other Australians by addressing history, culture, empowering Indigenous people to take responsibility for their communities, creating commercial opportunities for Indigenous peoples and concluding agreements between government and indigenous peoples.
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#19617031 at 2023-09-27 10:13:43 (UTC+1)
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'They're going to set off bombs': Pearson on No campaign
On Tuesday, leading No campaigner Nyunggai Warren Mundine labelled the Uluru Statement from the Heart "a symbolic declaration of war" in his Press Club address.
Mr Mundine also took aim at Australia's largest airline Qantas along with other private entities that had thrown their support behind the Voice.
On Wednesday when asked about the messaging being spread by the No campaign, he said it was "creating controversies beyond the actual thing we're dealing with".
"They're going to set off bombs over here. They're going to set off another bomb over here," he said of the No camp.
"They're going to talk about war over here, anything to distract from the simple words of the alteration that we're voting on.
"That's tactical. That is what they've chosen to do and they want to take our mind off the truth of the words that we're voting on."
Mr Pearson was asked about the misinformation that had been generated during the Voice debate, he described it as "nonsense", referring to instances of High Court decisions reached in the mutual interest of Australians.
"I would say to the undecided voters who are hearing the nonsense… referred to - not one square inch of land was lost because of Mabo," he said.
"Not one square inch of land was lost because of Wik.
"All of these scare campaigns that have looped around and revisited this referendum campaign are just saying the things that never happened. Nobody lost any land."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-27/noel-pearson-addresses-national-press-club/102905566
#19611589 at 2023-09-26 10:04:55 (UTC+1)
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Uluru statement a 'symbolic declaration of war', says Warren Mundine
James Massola and Paul Sakkal - September 26, 2023
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The Uluru Statement from the Heart, which first proposed a Voice to parliament, is a symbolic declaration of war against modern Australia, according to leading No campaigner Nyunggai Warren Mundine.
In a firebrand speech to the National Press Club on Tuesday, less than three weeks before Australians will vote in a historic referendum, Mundine claimed the Yes campaign is built on a "litany of lies", as he disputed the claim that 80 per cent of Australia's first people back the Voice proposal and that Indigenous Australians aren't listened to by policymakers.
Uluru Dialogue co-chair Megan Davis hit back at Mundine's characterisation of the document, released in 2017.
"The Uluru Statement from the Heart was an expression of peace and love to the Australian people, it is about belonging and unifying the nation and I find it really repugnant the notion it could be associated at all with the language of the declaration of war," she told the ABC.
In his speech, Mundine described the Voice as "a political ploy to grab power, not just from the Australian nation but also from traditional owners themselves," and argued it is "another lie" that "Indigenous representative body would give good advice and would change Indigenous lives for the better".
"If this was true, the gap would already be closed because Indigenous voices have been giving advice to governments for decades. The fact is that Indigenous bodies can give bad advice, like the Coalition of the Peaks who advocated against cashless welfare cards. They don't have all the answers and they haven't been able to solve all the problems," he said.
Head of the Recognise a Better Way campaign and president of the Voice No committee, Mundine is one of the most prominent members of the No campaign but, in a recent interview on the ABC's Insiders program, surprised many when he backed treaties with Indigenous Australians and a change to the date of Australia Day.
Though he was originally the warm favourite, Mundine subsequently dropped out of the race to fill a casual vacancy for the Liberal Party in the Senate.
Taking a swipe at the Yes campaign, he said the Voice "is not about whether Indigenous Australians are recognised, respected or listened to. And it's certainly not about how to improve the lives of those Indigenous people who continue to live in poverty, disadvantage and sometimes outright despair".
Mundine argued that "as Aboriginal people, we have a choice: to continue to feel angry and aggrieved - to be trapped in the past - or to draw a line in history and move on from a clean slate".
"The Uluru Statement comes from this place of continuing anger. It couldn't be further from the idea of reconciliation … it sees Indigenous Australians as trapped in victimhood and oppression, not free or able to make their own decisions. It depicts self-determination as an aspiration, not something within reach today. This is a lie."
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#19575654 at 2023-09-19 10:03:51 (UTC+1)
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Voice opponent Jacinta Nampijinpa Price breaks down at Adelaide No campaign event
abc.net.au - 19 September 2023
A leading opponent of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament has broken down in tears while delivering an address at a No campaign event in Adelaide, also accusing supporters of the Yes campaign of "bullying" and "gaslighting".
Coalition Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price told about 1,000 attendees of the event that she and her fellow Indigenous politicians already provide a voice for their people in federal parliament.
Senator Price became emotional as she recalled speaking on behalf of them, including at a National Press Club speech last week.
"I was a vessel for the women sitting in that room, the cousin of a young girl murdered hanging from a tree, the old woman in the middle of chemo who came to my office seeking to be heard because native title have written her and her family out of the history books," she said.
"Her days are coming to an end and she just wanted her voice to be heard."
Ahead of the event in Adelaide, Senator Price said Indigenous supporters of the No campaign were being singled out for their stance against the Voice.
The Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians said there were "individuals as part of [Yes] rallies, progressive white Australians" that were suggesting she was "simply a voice" for "mainly white" Country Liberal Party members.
She did not cite specific examples or clarify who she was referring to with her comments.
"People like myself … are singled out because apparently as Indigenous people, we're supposed to agree with a proposal that is empty," Senator Nampijinpa Price said.
A group of protesters gathered outside the Adelaide Convention Centre holding signs reading "fight racism" and "no pride in genocide", and banners against the AUKUS deal, while chanting "always was, always will be, Aboriginal land".
"You wouldn't see a group of No people show up to a Yes event and protest and jump up and down and try to stop them from having their say," Senator Nampijinpa Price said.
"This is what we've come to see in our country - bullying, gaslighting, manipulative kind of behaviour."
Senator not drawn on treaty comments
Senator Nampijinpa Price and leading campaigner Nyunggai Warren Mundine were both key speakers at Fair Australia's Vote No event at the Adelaide Convention Centre, and were joined by South Australian Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle.
Senator Nampijinpa Price would not be drawn on Mr Mundine's comments backing a treaty process - remarks that fellow No campaigners, including Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, have distanced themselves from.
Mr Mundine brushed off questions about whether he was worried his stance on a treaty would cost him in any future political moves.
"We're here to stand up to this referendum which is dividing this nation," he said.
"[It's] costing hundreds of millions of dollars, which could be better spent in those communities getting kids to school."
Senator Liddle also said division was a major problem - because of the Voice proposition itself and because of the campaign.
"Whether you came here 70,000 years ago, like I can trace my ancestry on both sides, or whether you came here last year or 10 years ago, our foundation document applies to everyone equally," she said.
Yes campaigners hopeful weekend turnout defies polling
The No campaign's event in Adelaide followed a weekend of rallies organised by Voice supporters across the country, with tens of thousands of people attending in both Sydney and Melbourne on Sunday.
In South Australia - a state the Yes campaign has described as critical to its hopes of success in the referendum - thousands marched through the centre of Adelaide.
Voice backers there expressed confidence that South Australian voters would back the referendum, despite polling showing a sharp dive in support for the Voice in that state.
"This is to demonstrate the overwhelming community support here in South Australia for a 'Yes' vote," federal government minister Amanda Rishworth said of Saturday's rally in Adelaide.
"We'll see South Australia playing such a critical role in this referendum coming up."
Yes campaign director Dean Parkin said he was encouraged by what he was seeing in the state.
"We reckon South Australia is going to be absolutely there with us," he said.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-18/indigenous-voice-to-parliament-no-campaign-in-adelaide/102869746
#19575624 at 2023-09-19 09:49:32 (UTC+1)
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Jacinta Price breaks down in tears at packed out No rally as she describes the Voice as the 'biggest gaslighting event' in Australia's history
DUNCAN EVANS - 19 September 2023
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Wild scenes of jubilation erupted during a raucous No campaign rally in the must-win state of South Australia on Tuesday night.
More than 1,000 people, many wearing 'No' supporter T-shirts, packed into the Adelaide Convention Centre to hear leading campaigners including Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO.
South Australian Senator Kerrynne Liddle was also in attendance to rail against the Voice to Parliament, which would enshrine a Indigenous-led advisory body into the Constitution.
In an emotional speech, Senator Price broke down in tears when she spoke of her role as a 'vessel' for Indigenous people who she said had been ignored by mainstream politics and media.
'I was a vessel for the women sitting in that room, the cousin of a young girl murdered, hanging from a tree,' she said, referencing her address at the National Press Club last week.
'They are the voices the media ignores, they are the voices Labor ignore, they are the voices the Greens ignore, they are the voters the Teals ignore.
'And they are the voices this bloody Voice to Parliament will ignore.'
As her voice rose in anger, the crowd rose to its feet and clapped and cheered furiously.
The outspoken shadow Indigenous Affairs minister called the Voice referendum the 'biggest gaslighting event our nation has ever experienced.'
'We are sick to death being told how racist we are, how horrible we are. Our own children are being taught not to be proud to call themselves Australians in this country,' she said.
Senator Price argued a Voice would 'constitutionally enshrine' a victimhood mentality in the country and degrade the future of Indigenous Australians.
Senator Price also said racial politics from the United States such as the Black Lives Matter movement had begun to filter into Australia.
'It doesn't belong here,' she said.
Speaking before Senator Price, Mr Mundine praised conservative ideals as the best way to help Indigenous Australians advance.
'Australia is not a racist country and our people are not racist,' he said.
'We wouldn't be spending billions of dollars to help people if we were a bunch of racists.'
Mr Mundine said successive governments had spent hundreds of billions of dollars helping Indigenous Australians in the past 50 years and he said there needed to be better accountability for how money leads to 'practical outcomes'.
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#19575597 at 2023-09-19 09:28:58 (UTC+1)
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Anthony Albanese says 'racist pigs' abuse hurled at Indigenous voice to parliament opponents was 'nasty'
ROSIE LEWIS - SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Anthony Albanese has condemned "nasty behaviour wherever it occurs" after No campaigners were labelled "racist pigs" and "racist dogs", conceding some of the tone of the voice referendum debate has been unfortunate.
As leading No campaigner Jacinta Nampijinpa Price declared the Prime Minister had to take responsibility for the racism and division in Australia, Mr Albanese urged voters to be respectful and debate the referendum question before them.
Peter Dutton also urged Australians to participate in the voice debate respectfully, lashing the "deeply disturbing" protest.
Video taken by South Australian Liberal senator Alex Antic walking into Fair Australia's No campaign launch in Adelaide on Monday evening shows protesters yelling "racist dog", "racist pig" and "crazy wankers".
Senator Price and Indigenous leader Warren Mundine were the headline speakers of the event.
"I condemn nasty behaviour wherever it occurs," Mr Albanese said.
"Of course some of the tone of the debate has been unfortunate. That's the truth. What I would say to people is be respectful. I respect every Australian regardless of whether they're going to vote Yes or whether they're going to No."
The Opposition Leader said people who had decided to vote No had "done so for good reason".
"They have listened to the debates. Many of them are frustrated with the fact that the Prime Minister is deliberately withholding information," Mr Dutton said.
"People don't understand the model and the scenes that we've seen are disturbing because people are entitled to their views. I have a great deal of respect for people who are voting either Yes or No."
Senator Price said there had been bullying, gas lighting and manipulative behaviour during the referendum campaign.
"This is the level of racism and division that the Prime Minister has to take responsibility for in this country right now. Where people like myself, people like my incredible colleagues here, are singled out because apparently as Indigenous people we're supposed to agree with a proposal that is empty," she said in Adelaide on Monday.
"We're supposed to agree with leftist ideology as opposed to thinking for ourselves and certainly to inform the Australian people as to the danger to voting yes. We must vote no for unifying this nation, for maintaining equality in our country. We're having conversations with Aboriginal people from grassroots communities who are dead set against this, they see the dangers in this, and we're here to represent those voices."
Mr Albanese seized on divisions within the No camp, after Mr Mundine split from Senator Price to declare his support for treaties and changing Australia Day four weeks out from the October 14 referendum.
Senator Price has also been cautious in backing a second referendum solely on constitutional recognition - which Mr Dutton has committed to pursuing if he wins the next election - saying any future process must involve all Australians.
"There has been a significant fear campaign going on raising a whole lot of issues that won't be impacted by October 14, including issues in which people in the No camp Warren Mundine has a very different view from Jacinta Price who has a different view from Peter Dutton," Mr Albanese said.
"Peter Dutton appears to want for this referendum to be defeated, for him to win the next election and then have another referendum. That to me makes no sense to reject what Indigenous people are asking for, which is a very modest and simple request."
Asked on Monday if he was worried his support for treaties would cost him any tilt at replacing Marise Payne as a NSW senator, Mr Mundine responded: "I'm worried about this lie that the Albanese government is running about a referendum that is costing hundreds of millions of dollars that could be better spent in those communities, getting kids to school, getting people into businesses, getting jobs. That's what I'm worried about and that's my total focus, is to make sure this referendum doesn't get up."
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/anthony-albanese-says-racist-pigs-abuse-hurled-at-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-opponents-was-nasty/news-story/7114fbd68e8651fec91b9b55a09b0ce5
https://twitter.com/SenatorAntic/status/1703709559171547484
#19570657 at 2023-09-18 09:54:14 (UTC+1)
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No campaigner Warren Mundine walks back support for treaties should Voice referendum fail
COURTNEY GOULD and JACK QUAIL - SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Leading No campaigner Warren Mundine has walked back his previous support for treaty processes should the Voice referendum fail, while also hurling accusations that the Yes campaign are launching "racial attacks and abuse".
While Mundine previously claimed treaties were more likely to be progressed if a No vote was successful, when asked to clarify his position, the No advocate instead referred to "Native Title and land rights".
"These things have huge commercial outcomes for Aboriginal people in regard to jobs, in regards to training, and in regard to running their own business, and it's done a tremendous job for Aboriginal communities," Mr Mundine told Sky News on Monday.
"That's what I'm talking about."
But when asked on ABC's Insiders' program whether treaties were more likely if the referendum failed, Mr Mundine responded: "Yeah because then, on 15 October, if it is a no vote, that's when the real work starts.
Asked on Sky News about Marcia Langton's comments that the No campaign was racist, Mundine accused Langton of being "out of touch with the Australian community."
Mundine refused to be drawn on whether he would support a second referendum to recognise Indigenous Australians in the Constitution should the Voice referendum fail, as has been proposed by Opposition leader Peter Dutton.
"My focus, because it is such an important thing, is to defeat this lie of a referendum and crush it," he said.
It comes after Peter Dutton sided with Country Liberal Party senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, who is also a leader in the No campaign, as a split emerges in the opposition camp over treaties with First Nations people.
The Opposition Leader emphatically ruled out entering into treaty negotiations should the Voice be defeated and he win power at the next election.
"I want to see money spent on practical outcomes for Indigenous kids in remote and regional areas," he told reporters in Melbourne.
"I don't want to see billions of dollars spent on treaties, where lawyers will line their pockets (through) treaties that are negotiated for 20 or 30 years. It's completely unacceptable."
Just three days earlier Senator Nampijinpa Price rejected a treaty with First Nations people at an event hosted by The Australian.
Senator Nampijinpa Price said she opposed treaties because "you can't have a treaty with your own citizens".
A major part of the No campaign has been to link the treaty-making process to the Voice referendum.
Mr Dutton on Monday again sought to link Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's support for the referendum to the treaty's process.
But Mr Albanese encouraged voters to "look at the words that are proposed" and not what he says is a "fear campaign".
"Like when marriage equality happened, there was a fear campaign about that too and no one's existing marriage was affected. It just gave a group of people the same rights and it was a good thing to do," Mr Albanese said on Coffs Coast radio.
"It was a fair thing to do and so is a vote for Yes on October 14."
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/breaking-news/peter-dutton-picks-a-side-in-no-campaign-fight-over-treaty/news-story/2e1f8d0fff4fd4d2e06f13f7dbaeec42
#19566045 at 2023-09-17 09:41:03 (UTC+1)
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Leading No campaigner Warren Mundine claims a treaty process will be more successful if No vote wins
abc.net.au - 17 September 2023
Leading No campaigner Warren Mundine has backed a treaty process, claiming it's more likely to succeed if the No vote is successful.
Mr Mundine, a Bundjalung man, also called for the date of Australia Day to be changed.
Speaking on the ABC's Insiders program, Mr Mundine said there should be multiple, individual treaties, recognising Aboriginal nations.
"We've got to recognise Aboriginal culture, Aboriginal culture is our First Nations and the first thing we learn about life is one nation cannot talk about another nation's country," he said.
"Only those traditional owners can talk about those countries so therefore when you talk about a state treaty or a national type treaty it doesn't make sense in our culture."
Mr Mundine said achieving that would be more likely without the Voice.
"We don't need another body of bureaucracy we need to recognise those traditional owners."
Mr Mundine's position puts him at odds with much of the conservative No campaign, which has warned against the Voice, saying it would open the door to establishing a treaty.
There are already processes underway across Australia which could lead to state-based and clan-based treaties, notably in Victoria where Aboriginal leaders want treaty negotiations underway by 2024.
Mr Mundine said treaties are needed to resolve issues around sovereignty and give protections to Aboriginal culture and heritage.
"We're moving very strongly in that position with the land rights acts and the native title acts where Aboriginal people have a major say in what happens on their lands," he said.
"Through that process, 55 per cent of Australia now is in Aboriginal ownership. We'll probably get up to 70 or 80 per cent I predict in the next 10 to 20 years."
Aboriginal people's land rights are "recognised" over 50 per cent of Australians land mass - not ownership.
A No vote will take us further away from justice for First Nations: Bandt
Greens Leader Adam Bandt said the referendum isn't about treaty, and is rather about constitutional recognition for First Nations people.
But he said without it, establishing a treaty becomes less likely.
"An unsuccessful outcome in the referendum will more likely take us further away from justice for First Nations people in this country," Mr Bandt said.
"If we successfully change the constitution we are a step closer for justice for First Nations People in this country."
"Some people aren't talking anymore": Mundine confirms Gary Johns no longer campaigning
Following a week of debate about the level of racism unleashed during the referendum debate, Mr Mundine said he was surprised by the intensity of the attacks.
"In the last 12 months, I've never seen so much racism and comments and attacks than I have seen since I was a kid," Mr Mundine said.
He was asked if he'd taken action about racism in the No camp, including whether fellow campaigner, former Labor minister Gary Johns, had been sacked.
Mr Johns has been criticised over comments he made about the need for Aboriginal people to undergo blood tests before getting welfare payments.
"I've been very strong about these issues, people know that and you notice that some people aren't talking any more," Mr Mundine said.
He said Mr John's removal from the campaign had been a team decision.
"We had a cup of tea and we talked about it," he said.
"My thing is that I talk to everyone, racists, non-racists - and everyone - because if you're going to eliminate racism, or try to eliminate racism, you've got to talk to racists."
No discussion with Dutton about Senate position
Mr Mundine also responded to suggestions he was set to enter parliament, replacing retiring Liberal senator Marise Payne.
He said he hadn't discussed the Senate position with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.
"I haven't had a chat with anyone about this because I want to focus on things that are relevant," Mr Mundine said.
"To me that's irrelevant, to me the Senate campaign, who's going to replace Marise Payne, my thing is about we need to focus on defeating the Voice."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-17/Warren-Mundine-backs-treaty-process/102866444
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tptfEBk7FNI
#19566036 at 2023-09-17 09:34:12 (UTC+1)
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'History is calling us': Yes campaign ramps up as thousands join in rallies across Australia
ELEANOR CAMPBELL - SEPTEMBER 17, 2023
Thousands of supporters of the Voice to Parliament have taken to the streets across the country, with a crucial message for Aussies that "history is calling us" ahead of the October referendum.
Supporters of the Yes campaign turned out in record numbers on Sunday afternoon across major cities including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra.
It marks one of the biggest campaign pushes for the Yes vote since the referendum date was announced.
Minister for Indigenous Australians told a roaring crowd in Melbourne's CBD that "history is calling us" and that "each and every one of you can help answer the call from generations of Indigenous people."
"For 65,000 years, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been speaking 363 languages, but no voice," Ms Burney said to raucous applause.
"In 27 days, you have the power to do something about it. You have the power to use your voice to allow Indigenous Australians to have a bigger say in the future."
Ms Burney said she was "speechless" and "almost crying" to witness the number of people in attendance.
"To look out over this crowd and see you. To know where your hearts are, to know where your spirit lives. And that you, like us, want to embrace this opportunity to move this country forward together," the minister said.
Campaigner and co-author of the Uluru Statement from the Heart Megan Davis said the number of people who turned out in support of the Voice "just blows our minds".
"It wasn't just one city, it was many, many cities, including towns," she told NCA Newswire.
"It's really overwhelming and I think it's a really historic moment."
Ms Davis said that the show of support could be a sign that there is "probably a silent majority of people who support it.
"Rallies are just an extraordinary demonstration of the support that's out there, they are big numbers," she said.
"I was in Melbourne and even though I was at the back of the crowd, it was just an extraordinary, huge number [of people]."
Australia's Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, who joined the mass rally in Melbourne, took aim at No campaigners while speaking to reporters.
Mr Dreyfus said anti-Voice advocates like Warren Mundine had "no solutions" for addressing Indigenous disadvantage.
"The no campaign talks about wanting to get practical improvement, the no campaign should be voting yes if they want practical improvement in the lives of Aboriginal people because that's what this referendum is about," he said.
Thousands of people descended into Redfern Park in Sydney to march as temperatures climbed above thirty-degrees, with organisers urging rally goers to stay in the shade and remain hydrated.
An estimated 5,000 people turned out to rally in Canberra with crowds parked outside the front lawn of Parliament House carrying large 'Vote Yes' signs.
Brisbane's pro-Voice rally saw a about 20,000 people chanting 'Yes' holding signs which read 'Stop the Trumps, Vote Yes' and 'Maintain the love."
In response, a large Aboriginal flag was pictured draped across Victoria Bridge which read 'Vote No.'
Sunday's mass rallies come after polls this week indicated a downfall for the October 14 referendum, with the national average support for Yes reportedly falling below 45 per cent.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese spoke out this week about questions over the Yes campaigns success and said while referendums were "hard to win" said he had confidence that voters would turn out in favour.
"I'm confident that every Australian will take up the opportunity to vote Yes," the PM said on Thursday.
Since 1901, only eight of 44 proposals for constitutional change have been approved.
The Australian Electoral Commission reported that a record number of Australians are enrolled to vote ahead of the date, with enrolments for First Nations people above 90 per cent for the first time in history.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/history-is-calling-us-yes-campaign-ramps-up-as-thousands-join-in-rallies-across-australia/news-story/4f91b9d62493cb89a57fce85e0063025
#19561714 at 2023-09-16 16:28:39 (UTC+1)
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>>19561705
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Her comments came before she was caught on a live microphone on Friday while campaigning alongside NSW Premier Chris Minns, where she appeared to suggest she had been treated "appallingly" by the federal opposition during the parliamentary fortnight.
"We've just finished two weeks of gruelling parliament. To me, it's just unbelievably racist and bullying. The way they have treated me is appalling," Burney said to Minns.
She later issued a clarifying statement saying her office, social accounts and email had been inundated with racist abuse.
About 50,000 people had signed up to take part in the Walk for Yes events around the country, Pearson said while addressing the Redfern rally alongside Yes23 campaigner Rachel Perkins and Indigenous former AFL player Michael O'Loughlin.
The largest walks are expected in Sydney and Melbourne in what Yes23 campaigners hope will help arrest sliding momentum. A Resolve poll this week showed support for the Voice had slumped to 43 per cent after the first week of the campaign and the No case was leading in every state except Tasmania.
Prominent No campaigner Warren Mundine said his side was not worried about the Yes camp having a larger ground campaign, claiming that "people are rejecting the message that it is based on - that Aboriginal people don't have a voice, which is utter nonsense".
Asked about the Yes campaign's struggles on Saturday, Minns said he believed the campaign still had time to make the arguments and assure people the Voice would be a positive change and would not replace representative democracy.
"Nothing will take precedence over the House of Representatives and the Senate. Nothing. That's our system, our system works," Minns said.
"Some people are saying that it's already over before it's begun. It's not. Most people I speak to either aren't engaged on the issue yet or haven't thought deeply about it."
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/don-t-be-distracted-by-controversy-bombs-pearson-urges-yes-campaign-20230915-p5e4wo.html
#19561568 at 2023-09-16 16:00:48 (UTC+1)
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>>19561560
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In a depressing and complex week, an example of our better selves suddenly sprang from multicultural Australia. Independent MP Dai Le, who arrived in this country as a Vietnamese refugee, interviewed on Sky News by Laura Jayes and talking with emotion, described Australia as a country "growing and maturing", pointing out "there are flaws in any society", conceding there were some racist people but asserting that "Australia is not a racist country". This was the generosity and balance the week badly needed. At the same time Warren Mundine branded talk of racism as "madness" and said "whatever the result we have to come together". He said he had just met and "cuddled" football legend Michael Long, who had walked from Melbourne to Canberra for the Yes cause.
The week in parliament was ugly and emotional, dominated by a slanging match of accusation between Albanese and Dutton. It was conspicuous for post-referendum blame-game positioning. Indeed, the blame game is a potent force hurting the referendum.
Feeling the momentum behind the No cause Dutton attacked Albanese: "He doubles down and he stands before the Australian people as the first Prime Minister in our country's history who will seek to divide our country right down the middle." And Albanese said of Dutton: "When it comes to dishonesty and division, when it comes to fear and campaigns and falsehoods, this bloke wrote the book."
The problem is that attacking Dutton won't win the referendum. This is not an election campaign. Treating it as an election campaign is folly. The people are not being asked to choose between Albanese and Dutton; they are being asked to vote in a referendum, and the only way Albanese can win is to build a broad based voting alliance. He needs to persuade.
At week's end this is where the Prime Minister finished. Welcoming Long's arrival in Canberra, Albanese was positive and eloquent. "Changing a constitution is tough," Albanese said. "It's hard. We knew that at the beginning of this journey. It didn't stop us from stepping out. And not for a day, not for a day have I regretted that decision. And not a single Indigenous leader who I've met has asked for anything other than to keep stepping forward. Michael Long has made a lot of steps all the way the way from Melbourne. He's a great Australian who cares for his people."
The Yes camp says it still has a narrow path to victory. All his life Albanese has been a political warrior. His path to victory lies in promoting the notion of twin ideas of reconciliation and Aboriginal responsibility. A month is still a long time.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/jacinta-prices-alternative-to-the-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-is-a-vision-for-the-future/news-story/4c36bbc221c22433a93aaf21b6e39974
#19561555 at 2023-09-16 15:58:08 (UTC+1)
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>>19561548
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The media will focus on the colonisation hook to discredit Price, but this misses the greater significance of her position: Price's alternative vision for Indigenous Australians will have wide appeal and if the referendum is defeated it will trigger a new, different and divisive debate about how Australians relate to one another.
"If we keep telling Aboriginal people that they are victims, we are effectively removing their agency," Price said. She denounced separatism and attributing the causes of Aboriginal disadvantage to "racism and colonisation", saying that putting "grievance before fact" ruined commonsense policies. Asked about more people nominating themselves as Indigenous, Price knew why: that happened when you prioritised race, not need. This was Australia's national blunder, putting race before need.
Speaking from the heart
Her performance at the NPC was astonishing for a politician elected only last year. Price cuts through. Her content is forthright, strident, yet compelling. Price is persuasive. She says things other politicians can't say or would never dream of saying. She is going to become popular because she deals in common sense. She wants a united country, Aboriginal people in a broad Australia, not endless demands for separate rules, norms and institutions.
She speaks from the ground up, but she's smart. Australians look at her face and know who this woman is. Price arrives culturally free. She speaks from the heart. She doesn't speak the reconciliation vernacular or the culture of Aboriginal dispossession. Other politicians seem reluctant to challenge her. But that will change. The progressive elites will try to destroy her. She's dangerous. Does she realise how dangerous her message is? She will unleash forces that will reverberate through the left and right of politics for years.
Price said the long-run goal should be the eventual phasing out of the separate Indigenous Australians ministers because they wouldn't be required. A constitutionally enshrined voice implied "the gap will exist in perpetuity and that is not what we want".
In short, she rejects the moral foundations on which much Indigenous policy in this country has been based for the past two generations. She rejects the narrative now dominant in our schools, universities, progressive media and corporations. Price, unsurprisingly, will interpret any defeat of the voice as having far wider implications for Australia.
This is not what the Prime Minister envisaged when he launched this referendum, backed by an alliance of elite, corporate, celebrity, institutional, professional and sporting bodies on a scale unprecedented since World War II. Australia's elites are in the process of being administered a huge shock.
The referendum contest remains open. The Yes case is redoubling its efforts. Its determination and capacity remain strong. It has an army of volunteers and is well financed. But the startling feature of the contest, so far, is the quality and credibility of the Indigenous leadership of the No camp headed by Price and Warren Mundine and supported by indigenous Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle.
For Price, there's a danger: beware the mad populist right claiming any referendum win and claiming Price. She will need astute political advice. Her worst mistake would be to allow herself to be manipulated and exploited by the extreme right and inept conservatives in this country. They are political poison. These people will be a menace after any referendum loss and would represent the sure path to diminishing her remarkable brand.
Australia's mainstream and corporate elites have been taken by surprise in this campaign. They never saw this coming; they never did proper due diligence on the referendum. How serious are these people? Many felt changing our Constitution was a calculated deal to appeal to their Indigenous staff. A referendum defeat will repudiate their judgment and their conception of their own country. It will show they misread Australian values, knew nothing of Indigenous politics, ventured into territory they didn't understand and demonstrated that they cannot be trusted on the strategic decisions about the nation's future identity.
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#19548522 at 2023-09-14 10:52:49 (UTC+1)
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Price refused to condemn the views of No leaders Gary Johns, who has said Indigenous people should take blood tests for welfare payments, and David Adler, who accused journalist Stan Grant of artificially darkening his skin, but instead said she and fellow No campaigner Warren Mundine had been subjected to "horrible racial vilification", and that she did not support blood tests.
Many leaders, Price argued, had been scared to apply accountability to Indigenous communities because they were fearful of being marked as prejudiced.
"We are treating Aboriginal people differently. And we treat no other group of Australians in this manner. If I've got anything to do with it, we'll actually start treating Aboriginal people like Australian citizens."
Price received a standing ovation from a crowd that included No leader Mundine, Coalition MPs David Littleproud, Michaelia Cash, Bridget McKenzie, Kerrynne Liddle and Barnaby Joyce, and conservative commentators Tom Switzer and John Roskam.
She said, to the laughter and applause of her colleagues: "That would mean that those of us whose ancestors were possessed in their own country and brought here in chains as convicts are also suffering from intergenerational trauma, so I should be doubly suffering."
Price's comments were later condemned by Linda Burney, the Minister for Indigenous Australians, as "offensive".
"It denies the experience of so many First Nations families. We only have to look at the Stolen Generations and the impacts that has had, in terms of ongoing trauma and pain. Her comments are a betrayal of so many people's stories."
Roskam, an Institute of Public Affairs senior fellow, said Price's referendum campaigning was having a profound effect on centre-right politics in Australia.
He argued Price was proving the Coalition could win the culture wars and take on big business, which largely supports the Voice.
"This is a potentially transformational moment in Australian politics," he said.
After the speech, Central Land Council chief Les Turner said grassroots NT leaders had consistently said Price did not speak for them, according to Guardian Australia.
Liberal MP Keith Wolahan on Thursday pleaded for civility on both sides of the Voice debate, after a week of heated exchanges.
He urged Voice backers to avoid invalidating the outcome of the referendum by claiming the No campaign was based on "misinformation", a term he said was overused.
"When we stoke the fires on either side of this debate, there's consequences for that," he said.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/price-says-colonialism-has-been-good-for-indigenous-australians-20230914-p5e4lz.html
#19548489 at 2023-09-14 10:27:48 (UTC+1)
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Campaigner for the No case, Warren Mundine, rejected Professor Langton's suggestion 20 per cent of Australians were racist as "pure nonsense". "Many Aboriginals enjoy a good life in Australia and we've got migrants who have come overseas living here and millions more want to come here. So this idea that 20 per cent of Australians are spewing racism is a bizarre comment," he said.
SA Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle, who is also Indigenous, said Professor Langton's views of the No campaign were "pretty ordinary". "I'm not going to be moved by commentary that suggests my position is ill-informed, stupid or racist," she said. "But I'm really troubled for those people who hold a No position who aren't as comfortable as I am with taking this position."
Yes23 co-chair Rachel Perkins said there was "only a very small margin" of Australians with racist views, as she defended Professor Langton's attack.
Campaigning in Perth for a Yes vote, Ms Perkins said Professor Langton's comments from Sunday had been taken out of context.
"That was unfortunate. She's now had the opportunity to respond and you can see that she's talking about some of the No case's material," Ms Perkins told 6PR radio. "We have seen ads from the No case ... that do have those racist undertones and we have seen some commentary from some people associated with the No case that is very upsetting."
"The thing we've got to keep in mind is Australia is fundamentally not a racist country. People are having their views not necessarily based on racism at all. People are having their views because they might have concerns but we have to be understanding that people are still making their minds up."
Uluru Dialogue Strategic ?Adviser and former journalist Kirstie Parker said the Yes campaign was appealing to Australians not to be frightened into voting no based upon mischief-making and subterfuge by outfits like Fair Australia who she said had abandoned honesty, decency, fairness - all long-held Australian values. "Such 'no campers' are trolling Aussies, and I hope Aussies will understand that come referendum day, and vote accordingly," she said.
The Coalition peppered Ms Burney with questions in parliament over several controversial remarks Professor Langton had made - including that families had been broken apart by social workers who were, by and large, white and racist - while demanding detail over how the voice would work. The government also sought to escalate its attack against Peter Dutton, labelling him the "chief propagandist" of misinformation and mistruths in the referendum campaign.
"The Leader of the Opposition has taken the weirdest whispers from the furthest fringes of social media and legitimised them and amplified them here in the people's house of parliament," Jim Chalmers said. "He has seen this (the referendum) from the very beginning, not as a chance for unity, but as an excuse to practise the usual nasty and negative and angry and dishonest and divisive politics." In her National Press Club address to be delivered on Thursday, Senator Price said that, to argue the voice was a request of First Nations people, was to play into "backwards, neo-colonial racial stereotyping, suggesting that all Aboriginal people think the same, feel the same and want for the same things".
"Despite racial stereotyping that suggests Aboriginal Australians are one homogenous group, we are not," she said. "I am one of 11 Indigenous voices in parliament, and I will not accept ... our democratically elected voices are redundant because we belong to political parties."
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/no-alternative-jacinta-prices-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-pitch/news-story/9a2af3896976d5eeb393eb4c819ab176
#19499246 at 2023-09-06 09:39:53 (UTC+1)
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>>19487613
Opponents to an Indigenous voice to parliament concede their campaign is 'low-key'
ROSIE LEWIS - SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Opponents of an Indigenous voice to parliament are running a "low-key" ground campaign that's "not as flash" as the Yes side, according to leading No spokesman Warren Mundine, with the focus on reaching voters through social media platforms such as TikTok rather than door-knocking and holding daily public events.
As the official campaign enters its second week, Mr Mundine declared the No camp's greatest campaigning technique was to let supporters knock on doors and talk with Australians because "they can't answer the questions".
The claim was made as Anthony Albanese ratcheted up his parliamentary attack against Peter Dutton on the referendum, saying the Opposition Leader wanted to defeat it for political reasons and then have a second poll so he could "talk about this for year after year after year after year".
"We want outcomes," the Prime Minister said. "No one is asking for a second referendum, which is his position. He wants to see Indigenous people, he just doesn't want them to be heard."
Mr Dutton questioned how Mr Albanese could go ahead with the October 14 referendum "knowing that he's going to divide our country clean down the middle".
Four prominent Yes campaigners - Dean Parkin, Thomas Mayo, Noel Pearson and Rachel Perkins - have been out-campaigning the No camp, traversing the country and holding daily events while 30,000 volunteers knock on doors.
Amid warnings from Nationals leader David Littleproud that the No campaign couldn't afford to be complacent, Mr Mundine acknowledged there were some days he wasn't able to appear publicly on the campaign trail because he still had businesses to run.
"We're just ordinary Australians who still have to work. We're not as flash as the Yes campaign," he said. "It's working in our favour all this stuff. Every time they pull out a celebrity, people go 'eh eh'. It's not about the vibe, it's not about feeling good or feeling guilty, this is about the governance of this country and practical events. It (the No campaign) is just low key, talking to groups of people and asking them to talk to their families and 'here's what it's all about'."
Asked what the No camp's most effective campaigning technique was, he said: "Them (Yes23) knocking on doors and talking face-to-face with the public."
The Australian understands the No campaign has relied on detailed modelling to produce a road map revealing exactly which voters - including who they are, what they do and where they live - would be most receptive to their messaging.
That information is then used to inform where to target all voter contact tactics including digital advertising, phone calls, text messages and unaddressed mail.
The No campaign body, Fair Australia, is prioritising cheaper social media ads rather than mainstream media and engaging with voters on platforms like TikTok - where it has 33.6k followers compared to Yes23's 3.1k. followers.
Former Western Australia treasurer and voice supporter Ben Wyatt said the status quo was no longer acceptable and told undecided voters who weren't sure if the Constitution needed amending: "Sometimes when you have had such strong evidence of policy failure, you need to shake the system up - a Yes vote shakes the system up in Aboriginal policy and ensures that we get a much better outcome in the implementation and development of policy."
Aboriginal activist Megan Krakouer, campaigning alongside Mr Wyatt and Mr Parkin in Perth, said she didn't believe the voice was enough or that "it'll make the great change we need it to" but people in her community were suffering from suicidality and mental health and she wouldn't "stand in the way of some kind of progress".
"I'm not sure it'll work but I do know we have to give it a try because there is just so much despair in our community," she said.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/opponents-to-an-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-concede-their-campaign-is-low-key/news-story/472199474b5ca36a36922166e69a2dd2
#19487543 at 2023-09-04 10:10:18 (UTC+1)
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>>19367951 Lidia Thorpe addresses 'hard truths' about rights and sovereignty of Indigenous people - An upcoming referendum on the Voice to parliament is "window dressing" and should be called off, senator Lidia Thorpe says. The independent senator and face of the Blak Sovereign Movement outlined her criticism of the proposal in her first address to the National Press Club. Senator Thorpe slammed the Uluru Statement from the Heart for promoting the Voice, which she called a "romanticised spiritual notion" of Indigenous sovereignty. "When we talk about sovereignty, we are talking about much more than just the romanticised spiritual notion talked about in the Uluru Statement. We are talking about real political sovereign power," she said. "I know that might make people feel uncomfortable. But, too bad. That's why the government is scared to acknowledge it. "We are talking about sovereign rights. Rights to our home lands. Our rights to nurture our lands, water, sea, country, and sky, as we have for millennia."
>>19382262 Anthony Albanese presses go to super-charge Indigenous voice to parliament campaign - Anthony Albanese, senior cabinet ministers and state premiers are preparing a nationwide blitz of battleground states and electorates, as the ALP and union campaign machines swing behind the Yes23 grassroots movement ahead of the voice referendum. The Prime Minister and Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney on Saturday will use speeches on the final day of the ALP national conference in Brisbane to springboard Labor's Yes campaign ahead of an expected October 14 referendum.
>>19382273 Warren Mundine to launch 'vision' at Conservative Political Action Conference - Indigenous entrepreneur Warren Mundine says it is time for Australian conservatives to rejoin discussions they once led on equality and rights. He flagged the Conservative Political Action Conference in Sydney as the forum to set out the movement's commitments to Closing the Gap and economic prosperity for Indigenous Australians. Mr Mundine and Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, the Coalition's spokeswoman on Indigenous affairs, will speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Sydney on Saturday. They are expected to reiterate their arguments against the Indigenous voice to parliament, as fellow speakers, including Tony Abbott and Pauline Hanson, are predicted to do.
>>19387384 Albanese declares Voice an opportunity to make Australia greater - The prime minister has rallied Labor members to campaign "like you've never campaigned before" for the Voice, to flip opinion polls showing the referendum in peril, at the party's national conference in Brisbane. Anthony Albanese said the Voice to parliament referendum was a tough undertaking for his first-term government, but Labor was committed to taking on issues "not because they're convenient, but out of conviction". A Yes vote, Albanese argued, would "resound across our continent" and make "Australia, the greatest country on earth, just that little bit greater".
>>19387439 Inside the conservative forum rallying troops against the Voice - Coalition firebrand senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was treated to a rock star's welcome as she strode onto the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Sydney and rallied the crowd to do everything they could to oppose the Voice to parliament referendum. The Voice was a central theme of this year's CPAC Australia event on Saturday, as the who's who of the No campaign rubbed shoulders with hundreds of conservative voters who paid up to $600 to attend the two-day conference. For those chasing the VIP experience and access to the after party, it was $7000. Wearing a "Vote No" T-shirt, Price told attendees that while the polling was trending in the direction of a referendum defeat, they should not get complacent.
>>19387527 Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price lashes the prime minister over the Voice - Indigenous Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has lashed the prime minister, telling a conservative conference Anthony Albanese is "so concerned with his own popularity he's willing to tear apart the country". The prominent No Campaigner has been vocal about how she doesn't believe the Constitution should be amended to recognise Indigenous Australians as the nation's First Peoples and enshrine a permanent, independent Aboriginal and Torres Strait advisory body, or "Voice", to parliament and the executive government. Senator Price walked onto the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday at The Star Convention Centre in Sydney to a roaring applause and standing ovation.
#19487542 at 2023-09-04 10:09:54 (UTC+1)
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>>19361889 Prime Minister accuses No campaign of spreading AI misinformation - Anthony Albanese has accused the No campaign of spreading AI-generated misinformation ahead of the voice referendum, escalating his attack on media commentators opposed to his proposed constitutional change, including Peta Credlin and ?Andrew Bolt. On WSFM radio with Amanda Keller and Brendan Jones, the Prime Minister said it was ?"pretty scary frankly, some of the No campaign and stuff that's going into people's Facebook posts which is designed to spread misinformation". "Some of it is AI-generated, some of it generated, of course, by people like the commentators that you have said."
>>19361898 No campaigner's comments on Stan Grant, Lidia Thorpe labelled 'disgusting', 'grotesque' - Remarks from a key figure in the Voice No campaign about Indigenous journalist Stan Grant and independent senator Lidia Thorpe have been condemned and labelled disgusting and grotesque. Australian Jewish Association head David Adler, who sits on the advisory board of top No outfit Advance with former prime minister Tony Abbott, insists he was not trying to insult the prominent Indigenous pair when he questioned Thorpe's Aboriginal heritage and repeatedly suggested Grant had artificially darkened his skin.
>>19361927 No campaign dumps campaigners over racist remarks, distances itself from Adler - No campaign leader Nyunggai Warren Mundine has revealed he pushed two people out of his referendum campaign over allegedly racist comments, as he distanced himself from under-fire No figure David Adler. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said on Tuesday that Opposition Leader Peter Dutton should disassociate himself from Adler after this masthead reported he repeatedly questioned senator Lidia Thorpe's Aboriginal heritage and suggested Indigenous journalist Stan Grant artificially darkened his skin. Mundine said Adler's comments were "bizarre" and, without referring directly to Adler, said questioning an Indigenous person's cultural heritage constituted a "disgusting ... racist attack".
>>19367921 Video: 'Why would I?': Anthony Albanese 'hasn't read' additional 25 pages of Uluru Statement material - Anthony Albanese says he hasn't read the additional 25 pages attached to the Uluru Statement from the Heart, which talk of "reparations" to Indigenous Australians under a future treaty, despite the "divisive" material being seized upon by opponents of the Voice referendum in recent weeks. Speaking to 3AW host Neil Mitchell in an hour-long interview on Monday, the Prime Minister accused the No campaign and Opposition leader Peter Dutton of playing dirty and "saying things that they know are not true". "Peter Dutton knows full well that a Voice will not have a say in where the submarines from AUKUS will go, they know the Uluru Statement from the Heart is one page, not hundreds of pages," Mr Albanese said. "But what are the other 25 pages? I've read them, what are they?" Mitchell said. "What they are is a record of meetings ... they're records of the big lead-up that happened, in the lead-up to, ironically ... the Uluru Statement from the Heart," the PM said. "Do you agree with most of what is said in those 25 pages?" Mitchell said. "I haven't read it," Mr Albanese said. "You haven't read it?" Mitchell said. "There's 120 pages - why would I?" the PM said.
>>19367937 Albanese rules out legislating the voice if No campaign prevails - Anthony Albanese has ruled out legislating a voice to parliament if the referendum is defeated this year, pledging that he will honour a No vote and the decision of the Australian people. In his most definitive comments to date on the issue, the Prime Minister said that simply legislating a voice, rather than enshrining the advisory body in the Constitution, also was not the outcome Indigenous leaders had asked of the Australian people. "The Australian people - we are giving them a say," he told an extended podcast with 3AW's Neil Mitchell. "The idea that the Australian people vote 'no' and I say, 'well, that's OK, thanks very much for participating in the referendum, we are going to do it anyway'. No. I won't do that."
#19487538 at 2023-09-04 10:08:37 (UTC+1)
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>>19320706 Indigenous voice to parliament No camp fears rush of the late engagers - Senior No campaigners have warned of complacency, fears that 20 to 30 per cent of voters will remain undecided on the voice until polls open and a "cooling" in fundraising and volunteer support, according to a leaked memo sent to Australians for Unity board members. The No campaign, which leads Yes23 in internal and public polling, holds serious concerns it will be outspent and outnumbered in the weeks leading up to the expected October 14 referendum asking Australians to enshrine a voice advisory body in the Constitution.
>>19326823 Indigenous voice to parliament: AI No group denies relationship with Warren Mundine and Jacinta Price - The man behind a No campaign group that has drawn criticism for using AI generated videos has denied having a formal or informal relationship with Warren Mundine or Country-Liberal senator Jacinta Price. The ABC was forced to issue a statement of clarification after former NAIDOC co-chair and journalist John Paul Janke said voice opponents were using AI to make it appear "like it is an ?Indigenous person supporting the No campaign". Phillip Mobbs, who is running Constitutional Equality, said AI was a cost-effective way to create campaign videos that reflected multicultural Australia. "What you'll observe is the avatar is clearly not Indigenous but (it) does reflect the multicultural society we live in," he said. Mr Mobbs, whose background is in education, said he had no relationship with Senator Price, Mr Mundine or No campaign group Advance Australia.
>>19326866 Video: Indigenous voice to parliament referendum 'the best chance to shape treaty', says Thomas Mayo - Prominent Yes campaigner Thomas Mayo says Indigenous Australians who signed the Uluru Statement from the Heart ?wanted to pursue a voice first "so that we could have the best possible say on the Makarrata commission" to oversee agreement-making and truth-telling. Mr Mayo made the direct link between the voice and treaty as fellow leading Yes supporters - including Megan Davis and Tom Calma - backed Anthony Albanese in warning this referendum would be Australians' only chance to pass constitutional recognition in a generation.
>>19327086 Video: Senator says Uluru Statement 'confirmed' as 26 pages by NIAA, after Albo blasts claim as 'QAnon' conspiracy - Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says the Uluru Statement from the Heart has been "confirmed" as being 26 pages long by the agency that produced the documents under freedom of information, as she called on Anthony Albanese to "come clean" after the Prime Minister derided the claim as a "QAnon" style conspiracy theory on Tuesday. Mr Albanese used Question Time on Tuesday to blast the claims as a "QAnon" style conspiracy theory. "That is a conspiracy in search of a theory, Mr Speaker," the PM said. "It is something that has been out there, like a whole lot of the QAnon theories, we have all sorts of conspiracy stuff out there, but this is a ripper. That is the Uluru Statement from the Heart on an A4 bit of paper. That is it. But what we have here is the conspiracy theories colliding with each other. They're struggling to get their scares straight. I mean, what role did Marcia Langton play in the faking of the moon landing, Mr Speaker? What was the role of the Uluru Statement from the Heart in that?" He stressed it was "absolutely nonsense".
>>19333302 Indigenous voice to parliament: Anthony Albanese strikes back on length of Uluru Statement - Anthony Albanese has attempted to slap down Coalition accusations the Uluru Statement from the Heart is more than one page as "absolute conspiracy and nonsense", amid claims the Indigenous Australians agency has faced political pressure to fall into line with the government. The No campaign is intensifying debate over whether the Uluru statement is one or more pages as the Coalition points to previous comments from Megan Davis - an architect of the statement - that it was actually about 18 to 20 pages. The Coalition is claiming the government is wrong to say the Uluru Statement is one page, arguing the document is 26 pages and includes statements about invasion, treaty and genocide.
#19487536 at 2023-09-04 10:08:17 (UTC+1)
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>>19303148 Video: Yes campaign relieved as WA set to scrap controversial heritage laws - An obstacle appears to have been cleared from the path of the Yes campaign with the Western Australian government expected to scrap controversial Aboriginal heritage laws that had become a flashpoint in the Voice referendum. Reports of the move to ditch the laws were welcomed by the Yes campaign and Voice advocates at the Garma Festival in north-east Arnhem Land yesterday, after the federal Coalition sought to link the two issues and suggested the WA measures were a precursor to broader national changes that could infringe on property owners' rights.
>>19308103 'Not focused on hypotheticals': PM not considering other forms of Indigenous recognition if Voice fails - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has warned no other forms of Indigenous recognition will be on the table if the Voice referendum fails. He told ABC's Insiders program, filmed at Garma Festival in north-east Arnhem Land, he will not back down from constitutional recognition in the form of a Voice to Parliament because that was the specific request First Nations people made in the Uluru Statement. "This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity," he said.
>>19308109 Labor in no-man's land, not wanting to promote a treaty while also unable to say it won't happen - "Anthony Albanese has launched a media blitz to reboot the failing campaign for a voice to parliament, warning there will be no second chance for constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians if the referendum fails. Amid the glow of an uplifting Garma festival of indigenous Australians, and against the idyllic backdrop of Arnhem Land, the Prime Minister is using his "spear of strength" to simultaneously promote the indigenous voice to parliament, warn there will be no watered-down versions of recognition, and to distance himself and the commonwealth from the Uluru Statement commitment to a treaty." - Dennis Shanahan - theaustralian.com.au
>>19308112 Video: 'Complete lie': Jacinta Price rejects claims No campaign using fake images of Indigenous people - No campaigner Warren Mundine and Country-Liberal senator Jacinta Price have knocked back "racist" allegations they have used AI-generated images of Aboriginal people to encourage people to oppose the Indigenous voice. Former NAIDOC co-chair and journalist John Paul Janke on Sunday told ABC Insiders that voice opposers had created the AI-generated images "to try to look like it is an Indigenous person supporting the No campaign". "Online, the No campaign have multiple social media pages. Some of them are now using AI with a Blak Indigenous character to try to look like it is an Indigenous person supporting the No campaign," he said, speaking from the Garma festival.
>>19314716 'Nothing to fear from Makaratta', Anthony Albanese says after Garma boost for voice referendum - Anthony Albanese says there is nothing to fear from the second stage of the Uluru Statement from the Heart - a proposed Makarrata commission often referred to as treaty for short - because any agreement making would be mutual, not imposed. After weeks of trying to separate the voice referendum from a Makaratta Commission, the Prime Minister said no Australian could deny the "struggle" of Indigenous Australians and that the commission would bring people together.
>>19320661 Video: WA Premier Roger Cook announces repeal of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Laws - WA Premier Roger Cook has confirmed his government will scrap its controversial Aboriginal cultural heritage legislation. The laws have been in effect for only five weeks, and had been designed to avoid a repeat of Rio Tinto's destruction of 46,000-year-old culturally significant caves at Juukan Gorge in 2020. But Mr Cook now says those laws went too far, were too complicated and placed unnecessary burdens on property owners. "I understand that the legislation has unintentionally caused stress, confusion and division in the community and for that I am sorry," he told a press conference this morning.
>>19320682 WA backtrack on heritage laws is a reminder the Indigenous voice to parliament can't be scrapped - "The "forever" nature of Anthony Albanese's constitutionally enshrined voice to parliament has been put up in lights by the West Australian retreat over introduction of Indigenous cultural heritage laws. This is the obvious point: there can be no backdown over a voice to parliament that has been cemented into the Constitution. If the voice proves unpopular, something goes wrong with the advisory body or there are unintended consequences, the entity cannot be scrapped. While bad governments can be voted out and bad laws can be repealed, the voice is permanent." - Joe Kelly - theaustralian.com.au
#19487528 at 2023-09-04 10:05:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition
#31 - Part 31
Indigenous Voice To Parliament Referendum - Part 2
>>19199762 National Australia Bank in firing line for hosting videos with Yes backer Thomas Mayo - The Coalition has hit out at NAB for hosting pro-voice videos with Thomas Mayo on its website, in which the prominent Yes campaigner declares the advisory body "must be respected and its advice acted upon".
>>19204775 Anthony Albanese: government will reject Indigenous voice advice if it disagrees - Anthony Albanese has declared an Indigenous voice to parliament is not about treaty or compensating Aboriginal people and says his government will absolutely reject its advice -- including if it suggests changing Australia Day - if Labor disagrees.
>>19204786 Video: Anthony Albanese reveals deepening Indigenous voice to parliament frustration during clash with 2GB Radio host Ben Fordham - Anthony Albanese has publicly revealed what is clearly a deepening personal frustration over where the voice referendum is heading. In an interview with 2GB radio host Ben Fordham Wednesday morning the Prime Minister allowed himself to become audibly vexed and abrasive by the questioning.
>>19211137 Indigenous voice to parliament: Anthony Albanese undermined on treaty claim - Supporters of an Indigenous voice have said the body must be established so it can negotiate treaty, undermining Anthony Albanese's declaration that the referendum is "not about a treaty". UNSW Law School professor Gabrielle Appleby and senior Uluru Dialogue member Eddie Synot wrote in March: "Voice precedes treaty because fair, modern treaty negotiations require first the establishment of a representative Indigenous body to negotiate the rules of the game with the state. It can't be left to the state alone, and the state must have a group of people with whom to negotiate."
>>19211159 'Failure is not an option': Dreyfus optimistic Voice referendum will overcome opposition - Federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says he is confident most Australians will support the Indigenous Voice to parliament once they are engaged with the issue, declaring change is long overdue and "failure is not an option". When asked who would be to blame if the referendum failed, Dreyfus replied: "It's not going to fail. Failure is not an option for me."
>>19211168 'I'm living on optimism': Pearson finds hope for Voice in a Sydney Westfield - For Noel Pearson, a visit to the Liberal heartland of Hornsby on Thursday to campaign for the Indigenous Voice to parliament became a whistlestop foodie tour as friendly shopkeepers pushed samples of olives, seafood, doughnuts and coffee on the First Nations leader. Pearson said the opposition to the Voice came from the far right and the far left, and that should comfort mainstream Australians. "The Voice is right down the middle, it's a sensible balance," Pearson said.
>>19217202 Big W pulls Indigenous voice to parliament plugs from in-store messages - Big W has pulled public address announcements about the Uluru Statement from the Heart and the Indigenous voice to parliament from all its stores, citing feedback from customers and staff. The retail chain, owned by Woolworths Group, had been broadcasting an acknowledgment of country in Big W stores for more than a year and will revert to those, The Australian has confirmed.
>>19217224 Yes supporters of the Indigenous voice to parliament have raised some of the best reasons to vote No - "If the Yes pamphlet was being sincere it would tell people the truth: neither symbolic recognition nor a great big new bureaucracy, as outlined in the Calma/Langton report, are capable of solving the problems facing many Aboriginal people. Only economic participation can do this: kids in school, adults in jobs, people able to create businesses and own their own homes. That isn't achieved with a magic wand. It's achievable only through hard graft and political courage." - Nyunggai Warren Mundine, Indigenous Forum director at the Centre for Independent Studies - theaustralian.com.au
>>19217244 Australian Jewish Association says Indigenous voice to parliament advocacy goes against values - A conservative pro-Israel community organisation that opposes an Indigenous voice to parliament has hit out at representative bodies for actively campaigning on the referendum, saying the ?Albanese government's proposal was "contrary to Jewish values and community interests". Many major Jewish organisations have backed the voice, ?saying it resonates with them ?because they understand what it's like to be voiceless.
#19487527 at 2023-09-04 10:05:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #32: YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN THIS FIGHT Edition
#31 - Part 30
Indigenous Voice To Parliament Referendum - Part 1
>>19194398 Women, regional voters lead rebellion on Indigenous voice to parliament: Newspoll - The referendum for an Indigenous voice to parliament has suffered a collapse in support among women voters and in the regions as the referendum heads toward defeat, with just 41 per cent of voters now saying they will vote yes.
>>19194411 Thomas Mayo and Kate Chaney get plaudits in Perth, but WA regions rail against the voice - Out in the WA farming and mining electorate of O'Connor, Liberal MP Rick Wilson sees baked-in opposition. In the last week of June, Wilson ran a survey of his own email database. Though it lacked any of the rigour of a poll, Wilson's survey concluded 80.1 per cent of the 1487 respondents intended to vote No at the voice referendum later this year.
>>19194426 Thomas Mayo says Indigenous voice to parliament will be 'difficult to ignore' - Prominent Yes campaigner Thomas Mayo says an Indigenous voice to parliament will be "difficult to ignore" as he hits out at "disappointing" personal attacks that he says have been hurtful. He would keep talking to Australians telling them the voice would be modest, meaningful, uniting and something that would be celebrated forever.
>>19194442 Thomas Mayo - Voice to Parliament will close gaps and address glaring issue at nation's heart - "How can we say we are the greatest country of all when we are the only like nation with no constitutional recognition of our original habitants. Far from great - Indigenous Australians are proportionately the most incarcerated people on the planet. We are the worst in the world in terms of Indigenous health, education and employment outcomes. At the referendum, we are responding to a simple and modest proposition: should our constitution include recognition of the First Peoples of Australia by granting them the fairness of a say." - Thomas Mayo - canberratimes.com.au
>>19194448 Anthony Albanese confident 'focus' will lead to Yes vote for Indigenous voice to parliament referendum - Anthony Albanese has declared the referendum for the Indigenous voice to parliament will be supported by a majority of the people and a majority of the states on the back of a short, five or six week campaign which will be the chance to turn around the negative polling.
>>19194465 Details aside, the vibe won't win voice referendum - Yes case advocates may have misunderstood the lessons of the 2017 same-sex marriage plebiscite and last year's federal election that brought a Labor left faction prime minister to power. Voice advocates see both as signs Australia has moved left.
>>19194492 Tony Abbott accuses companies supporting The Voice of 'shareholder abuse' - Former prime minister Tony Abbott has accused "woke companies" of "shareholder abuse" by publicly supporting the referendum. The former politician added there was "absolutely no doubt that the new left establishment is massively behind this Voice for all sorts of reasons."
>>19194500 Indigenous group demands $2.5m for WA tree planting events - More tree planting events in WA were cancelled due to claims by peak environmental body, the South East Regional Centre for Urban Landcare, that Perth-based Whadjuk Aboriginal Corporation is withholding approvals until $2.5m in compensation is received.
>>19199716 Speaking out: opposing camps state their reasons for and against an Indigenous voice to parliament - Australians will be told the ?Indigenous voice to parliament is a "leap into the unknown" when they receive the official No pamphlet in the mail, while the Yes ?brochure promises constitutional recognition with concrete results, as Anthony Albanese concedes the Yes case needs to be made stronger.
>>19199725 Greg Craven 'beside myself with rage' after Indigenous voice to parliament No pamphlet quotes him - Conservative constitutional lawyer and prominent Yes campaigner Greg Craven says he's "beside myself with rage" after one of his quotes criticising the government's preferred model for an Indigenous voice to parliament was used in the official No pamphlet.
>>19199734 Indigenous people thriving without voice: Mundine - No campaign leader Warren Mundine says the world "wouldn't give a bugger" if the Indigenous voice was shot down at the referendum, arguing Australia is already taking great steps to improve the lives of Aboriginal people.
>>19199738 No campaign 'outdated, missed opportunity': Leeser - Liberal backbencher Julian Leeser has criticised Peter Dutton's arguments against the voice, claiming the No campaign is outdated and could lead to a "missed opportunity" for Australians.
#19487408 at 2023-09-04 09:22:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #31: MAGIC SWORD - IN THE FACE OF EVIL Edition
#31 - Part 42
Indigenous Voice To Parliament Referendum - Part 13
>>19367951 Lidia Thorpe addresses 'hard truths' about rights and sovereignty of Indigenous people - An upcoming referendum on the Voice to parliament is "window dressing" and should be called off, senator Lidia Thorpe says. The independent senator and face of the Blak Sovereign Movement outlined her criticism of the proposal in her first address to the National Press Club. Senator Thorpe slammed the Uluru Statement from the Heart for promoting the Voice, which she called a "romanticised spiritual notion" of Indigenous sovereignty. "When we talk about sovereignty, we are talking about much more than just the romanticised spiritual notion talked about in the Uluru Statement. We are talking about real political sovereign power," she said. "I know that might make people feel uncomfortable. But, too bad. That's why the government is scared to acknowledge it. "We are talking about sovereign rights. Rights to our home lands. Our rights to nurture our lands, water, sea, country, and sky, as we have for millennia."
>>19382262 Anthony Albanese presses go to super-charge Indigenous voice to parliament campaign - Anthony Albanese, senior cabinet ministers and state premiers are preparing a nationwide blitz of battleground states and electorates, as the ALP and union campaign machines swing behind the Yes23 grassroots movement ahead of the voice referendum. The Prime Minister and Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney on Saturday will use speeches on the final day of the ALP national conference in Brisbane to springboard Labor's Yes campaign ahead of an expected October 14 referendum.
>>19382273 Warren Mundine to launch 'vision' at Conservative Political Action Conference - Indigenous entrepreneur Warren Mundine says it is time for Australian conservatives to rejoin discussions they once led on equality and rights. He flagged the Conservative Political Action Conference in Sydney as the forum to set out the movement's commitments to Closing the Gap and economic prosperity for Indigenous Australians. Mr Mundine and Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, the Coalition's spokeswoman on Indigenous affairs, will speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Sydney on Saturday. They are expected to reiterate their arguments against the Indigenous voice to parliament, as fellow speakers, including Tony Abbott and Pauline Hanson, are predicted to do.
>>19387384 Albanese declares Voice an opportunity to make Australia greater - The prime minister has rallied Labor members to campaign "like you've never campaigned before" for the Voice, to flip opinion polls showing the referendum in peril, at the party's national conference in Brisbane. Anthony Albanese said the Voice to parliament referendum was a tough undertaking for his first-term government, but Labor was committed to taking on issues "not because they're convenient, but out of conviction". A Yes vote, Albanese argued, would "resound across our continent" and make "Australia, the greatest country on earth, just that little bit greater".
>>19387439 Inside the conservative forum rallying troops against the Voice - Coalition firebrand senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was treated to a rock star's welcome as she strode onto the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Sydney and rallied the crowd to do everything they could to oppose the Voice to parliament referendum. The Voice was a central theme of this year's CPAC Australia event on Saturday, as the who's who of the No campaign rubbed shoulders with hundreds of conservative voters who paid up to $600 to attend the two-day conference. For those chasing the VIP experience and access to the after party, it was $7000. Wearing a "Vote No" T-shirt, Price told attendees that while the polling was trending in the direction of a referendum defeat, they should not get complacent.
>>19387527 Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price lashes the prime minister over the Voice - Indigenous Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has lashed the prime minister, telling a conservative conference Anthony Albanese is "so concerned with his own popularity he's willing to tear apart the country". The prominent No Campaigner has been vocal about how she doesn't believe the Constitution should be amended to recognise Indigenous Australians as the nation's First Peoples and enshrine a permanent, independent Aboriginal and Torres Strait advisory body, or "Voice", to parliament and the executive government. Senator Price walked onto the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday at The Star Convention Centre in Sydney to a roaring applause and standing ovation.
#19487405 at 2023-09-04 09:21:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #31: MAGIC SWORD - IN THE FACE OF EVIL Edition
#31 - Part 41
Indigenous Voice To Parliament Referendum - Part 12
>>19361889 Prime Minister accuses No campaign of spreading AI misinformation - Anthony Albanese has accused the No campaign of spreading AI-generated misinformation ahead of the voice referendum, escalating his attack on media commentators opposed to his proposed constitutional change, including Peta Credlin and ?Andrew Bolt. On WSFM radio with Amanda Keller and Brendan Jones, the Prime Minister said it was ?"pretty scary frankly, some of the No campaign and stuff that's going into people's Facebook posts which is designed to spread misinformation". "Some of it is AI-generated, some of it generated, of course, by people like the commentators that you have said."
>>19361898 No campaigner's comments on Stan Grant, Lidia Thorpe labelled 'disgusting', 'grotesque' - Remarks from a key figure in the Voice No campaign about Indigenous journalist Stan Grant and independent senator Lidia Thorpe have been condemned and labelled disgusting and grotesque. Australian Jewish Association head David Adler, who sits on the advisory board of top No outfit Advance with former prime minister Tony Abbott, insists he was not trying to insult the prominent Indigenous pair when he questioned Thorpe's Aboriginal heritage and repeatedly suggested Grant had artificially darkened his skin.
>>19361927 No campaign dumps campaigners over racist remarks, distances itself from Adler - No campaign leader Nyunggai Warren Mundine has revealed he pushed two people out of his referendum campaign over allegedly racist comments, as he distanced himself from under-fire No figure David Adler. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said on Tuesday that Opposition Leader Peter Dutton should disassociate himself from Adler after this masthead reported he repeatedly questioned senator Lidia Thorpe's Aboriginal heritage and suggested Indigenous journalist Stan Grant artificially darkened his skin. Mundine said Adler's comments were "bizarre" and, without referring directly to Adler, said questioning an Indigenous person's cultural heritage constituted a "disgusting ... racist attack".
>>19367921 Video: 'Why would I?': Anthony Albanese 'hasn't read' additional 25 pages of Uluru Statement material - Anthony Albanese says he hasn't read the additional 25 pages attached to the Uluru Statement from the Heart, which talk of "reparations" to Indigenous Australians under a future treaty, despite the "divisive" material being seized upon by opponents of the Voice referendum in recent weeks. Speaking to 3AW host Neil Mitchell in an hour-long interview on Monday, the Prime Minister accused the No campaign and Opposition leader Peter Dutton of playing dirty and "saying things that they know are not true". "Peter Dutton knows full well that a Voice will not have a say in where the submarines from AUKUS will go, they know the Uluru Statement from the Heart is one page, not hundreds of pages," Mr Albanese said. "But what are the other 25 pages? I've read them, what are they?" Mitchell said. "What they are is a record of meetings ... they're records of the big lead-up that happened, in the lead-up to, ironically ... the Uluru Statement from the Heart," the PM said. "Do you agree with most of what is said in those 25 pages?" Mitchell said. "I haven't read it," Mr Albanese said. "You haven't read it?" Mitchell said. "There's 120 pages - why would I?" the PM said.
>>19367937 Albanese rules out legislating the voice if No campaign prevails - Anthony Albanese has ruled out legislating a voice to parliament if the referendum is defeated this year, pledging that he will honour a No vote and the decision of the Australian people. In his most definitive comments to date on the issue, the Prime Minister said that simply legislating a voice, rather than enshrining the advisory body in the Constitution, also was not the outcome Indigenous leaders had asked of the Australian people. "The Australian people - we are giving them a say," he told an extended podcast with 3AW's Neil Mitchell. "The idea that the Australian people vote 'no' and I say, 'well, that's OK, thanks very much for participating in the referendum, we are going to do it anyway'. No. I won't do that."
#19487401 at 2023-09-04 09:18:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #31: MAGIC SWORD - IN THE FACE OF EVIL Edition
#31 - Part 38
Indigenous Voice To Parliament Referendum - Part 9
>>19320706 Indigenous voice to parliament No camp fears rush of the late engagers - Senior No campaigners have warned of complacency, fears that 20 to 30 per cent of voters will remain undecided on the voice until polls open and a "cooling" in fundraising and volunteer support, according to a leaked memo sent to Australians for Unity board members. The No campaign, which leads Yes23 in internal and public polling, holds serious concerns it will be outspent and outnumbered in the weeks leading up to the expected October 14 referendum asking Australians to enshrine a voice advisory body in the Constitution.
>>19326823 Indigenous voice to parliament: AI No group denies relationship with Warren Mundine and Jacinta Price - The man behind a No campaign group that has drawn criticism for using AI generated videos has denied having a formal or informal relationship with Warren Mundine or Country-Liberal senator Jacinta Price. The ABC was forced to issue a statement of clarification after former NAIDOC co-chair and journalist John Paul Janke said voice opponents were using AI to make it appear "like it is an ?Indigenous person supporting the No campaign". Phillip Mobbs, who is running Constitutional Equality, said AI was a cost-effective way to create campaign videos that reflected multicultural Australia. "What you'll observe is the avatar is clearly not Indigenous but (it) does reflect the multicultural society we live in," he said. Mr Mobbs, whose background is in education, said he had no relationship with Senator Price, Mr Mundine or No campaign group Advance Australia.
>>19326866 Video: Indigenous voice to parliament referendum 'the best chance to shape treaty', says Thomas Mayo - Prominent Yes campaigner Thomas Mayo says Indigenous Australians who signed the Uluru Statement from the Heart ?wanted to pursue a voice first "so that we could have the best possible say on the Makarrata commission" to oversee agreement-making and truth-telling. Mr Mayo made the direct link between the voice and treaty as fellow leading Yes supporters - including Megan Davis and Tom Calma - backed Anthony Albanese in warning this referendum would be Australians' only chance to pass constitutional recognition in a generation.
>>19327086 Video: Senator says Uluru Statement 'confirmed' as 26 pages by NIAA, after Albo blasts claim as 'QAnon' conspiracy - Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says the Uluru Statement from the Heart has been "confirmed" as being 26 pages long by the agency that produced the documents under freedom of information, as she called on Anthony Albanese to "come clean" after the Prime Minister derided the claim as a "QAnon" style conspiracy theory on Tuesday. Mr Albanese used Question Time on Tuesday to blast the claims as a "QAnon" style conspiracy theory. "That is a conspiracy in search of a theory, Mr Speaker," the PM said. "It is something that has been out there, like a whole lot of the QAnon theories, we have all sorts of conspiracy stuff out there, but this is a ripper. That is the Uluru Statement from the Heart on an A4 bit of paper. That is it. But what we have here is the conspiracy theories colliding with each other. They're struggling to get their scares straight. I mean, what role did Marcia Langton play in the faking of the moon landing, Mr Speaker? What was the role of the Uluru Statement from the Heart in that?" He stressed it was "absolutely nonsense".
>>19333302 Indigenous voice to parliament: Anthony Albanese strikes back on length of Uluru Statement - Anthony Albanese has attempted to slap down Coalition accusations the Uluru Statement from the Heart is more than one page as "absolute conspiracy and nonsense", amid claims the Indigenous Australians agency has faced political pressure to fall into line with the government. The No campaign is intensifying debate over whether the Uluru statement is one or more pages as the Coalition points to previous comments from Megan Davis - an architect of the statement - that it was actually about 18 to 20 pages. The Coalition is claiming the government is wrong to say the Uluru Statement is one page, arguing the document is 26 pages and includes statements about invasion, treaty and genocide.
#19487398 at 2023-09-04 09:17:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #31: MAGIC SWORD - IN THE FACE OF EVIL Edition
#31 - Part 37
Indigenous Voice To Parliament Referendum - Part 8
>>19303148 Video: Yes campaign relieved as WA set to scrap controversial heritage laws - An obstacle appears to have been cleared from the path of the Yes campaign with the Western Australian government expected to scrap controversial Aboriginal heritage laws that had become a flashpoint in the Voice referendum. Reports of the move to ditch the laws were welcomed by the Yes campaign and Voice advocates at the Garma Festival in north-east Arnhem Land yesterday, after the federal Coalition sought to link the two issues and suggested the WA measures were a precursor to broader national changes that could infringe on property owners' rights.
>>19308103 'Not focused on hypotheticals': PM not considering other forms of Indigenous recognition if Voice fails - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has warned no other forms of Indigenous recognition will be on the table if the Voice referendum fails. He told ABC's Insiders program, filmed at Garma Festival in north-east Arnhem Land, he will not back down from constitutional recognition in the form of a Voice to Parliament because that was the specific request First Nations people made in the Uluru Statement. "This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity," he said.
>>19308109 Labor in no-man's land, not wanting to promote a treaty while also unable to say it won't happen - "Anthony Albanese has launched a media blitz to reboot the failing campaign for a voice to parliament, warning there will be no second chance for constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians if the referendum fails. Amid the glow of an uplifting Garma festival of indigenous Australians, and against the idyllic backdrop of Arnhem Land, the Prime Minister is using his "spear of strength" to simultaneously promote the indigenous voice to parliament, warn there will be no watered-down versions of recognition, and to distance himself and the commonwealth from the Uluru Statement commitment to a treaty." - Dennis Shanahan - theaustralian.com.au
>>19308112 Video: 'Complete lie': Jacinta Price rejects claims No campaign using fake images of Indigenous people - No campaigner Warren Mundine and Country-Liberal senator Jacinta Price have knocked back "racist" allegations they have used AI-generated images of Aboriginal people to encourage people to oppose the Indigenous voice. Former NAIDOC co-chair and journalist John Paul Janke on Sunday told ABC Insiders that voice opposers had created the AI-generated images "to try to look like it is an Indigenous person supporting the No campaign". "Online, the No campaign have multiple social media pages. Some of them are now using AI with a Blak Indigenous character to try to look like it is an Indigenous person supporting the No campaign," he said, speaking from the Garma festival.
>>19314716 'Nothing to fear from Makaratta', Anthony Albanese says after Garma boost for voice referendum - Anthony Albanese says there is nothing to fear from the second stage of the Uluru Statement from the Heart - a proposed Makarrata commission often referred to as treaty for short - because any agreement making would be mutual, not imposed. After weeks of trying to separate the voice referendum from a Makaratta Commission, the Prime Minister said no Australian could deny the "struggle" of Indigenous Australians and that the commission would bring people together.
>>19320661 Video: WA Premier Roger Cook announces repeal of Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Laws - WA Premier Roger Cook has confirmed his government will scrap its controversial Aboriginal cultural heritage legislation. The laws have been in effect for only five weeks, and had been designed to avoid a repeat of Rio Tinto's destruction of 46,000-year-old culturally significant caves at Juukan Gorge in 2020. But Mr Cook now says those laws went too far, were too complicated and placed unnecessary burdens on property owners. "I understand that the legislation has unintentionally caused stress, confusion and division in the community and for that I am sorry," he told a press conference this morning.
>>19320682 WA backtrack on heritage laws is a reminder the Indigenous voice to parliament can't be scrapped - "The "forever" nature of Anthony Albanese's constitutionally enshrined voice to parliament has been put up in lights by the West Australian retreat over introduction of Indigenous cultural heritage laws. This is the obvious point: there can be no backdown over a voice to parliament that has been cemented into the Constitution. If the voice proves unpopular, something goes wrong with the advisory body or there are unintended consequences, the entity cannot be scrapped. While bad governments can be voted out and bad laws can be repealed, the voice is permanent." - Joe Kelly - theaustralian.com.au
#19487390 at 2023-09-04 09:11:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #31: MAGIC SWORD - IN THE FACE OF EVIL Edition
#31 - Part 31
Indigenous Voice To Parliament Referendum - Part 2
>>19199762 National Australia Bank in firing line for hosting videos with Yes backer Thomas Mayo - The Coalition has hit out at NAB for hosting pro-voice videos with Thomas Mayo on its website, in which the prominent Yes campaigner declares the advisory body "must be respected and its advice acted upon".
>>19204775 Anthony Albanese: government will reject Indigenous voice advice if it disagrees - Anthony Albanese has declared an Indigenous voice to parliament is not about treaty or compensating Aboriginal people and says his government will absolutely reject its advice – including if it suggests changing Australia Day - if Labor disagrees.
>>19204786 Video: Anthony Albanese reveals deepening Indigenous voice to parliament frustration during clash with 2GB Radio host Ben Fordham - Anthony Albanese has publicly revealed what is clearly a deepening personal frustration over where the voice referendum is heading. In an interview with 2GB radio host Ben Fordham Wednesday morning the Prime Minister allowed himself to become audibly vexed and abrasive by the questioning.
>>19211137 Indigenous voice to parliament: Anthony Albanese undermined on treaty claim - Supporters of an Indigenous voice have said the body must be established so it can negotiate treaty, undermining Anthony Albanese's declaration that the referendum is "not about a treaty". UNSW Law School professor Gabrielle Appleby and senior Uluru Dialogue member Eddie Synot wrote in March: "Voice precedes treaty because fair, modern treaty negotiations require first the establishment of a representative Indigenous body to negotiate the rules of the game with the state. It can't be left to the state alone, and the state must have a group of people with whom to negotiate."
>>19211159 'Failure is not an option': Dreyfus optimistic Voice referendum will overcome opposition - Federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says he is confident most Australians will support the Indigenous Voice to parliament once they are engaged with the issue, declaring change is long overdue and "failure is not an option". When asked who would be to blame if the referendum failed, Dreyfus replied: "It's not going to fail. Failure is not an option for me."
>>19211168 'I'm living on optimism': Pearson finds hope for Voice in a Sydney Westfield - For Noel Pearson, a visit to the Liberal heartland of Hornsby on Thursday to campaign for the Indigenous Voice to parliament became a whistlestop foodie tour as friendly shopkeepers pushed samples of olives, seafood, doughnuts and coffee on the First Nations leader. Pearson said the opposition to the Voice came from the far right and the far left, and that should comfort mainstream Australians. "The Voice is right down the middle, it's a sensible balance," Pearson said.
>>19217202 Big W pulls Indigenous voice to parliament plugs from in-store messages - Big W has pulled public address announcements about the Uluru Statement from the Heart and the Indigenous voice to parliament from all its stores, citing feedback from customers and staff. The retail chain, owned by Woolworths Group, had been broadcasting an acknowledgment of country in Big W stores for more than a year and will revert to those, The Australian has confirmed.
>>19217224 Yes supporters of the Indigenous voice to parliament have raised some of the best reasons to vote No - "If the Yes pamphlet was being sincere it would tell people the truth: neither symbolic recognition nor a great big new bureaucracy, as outlined in the Calma/Langton report, are capable of solving the problems facing many Aboriginal people. Only economic participation can do this: kids in school, adults in jobs, people able to create businesses and own their own homes. That isn't achieved with a magic wand. It's achievable only through hard graft and political courage." - Nyunggai Warren Mundine, Indigenous Forum director at the Centre for Independent Studies - theaustralian.com.au
>>19217244 Australian Jewish Association says Indigenous voice to parliament advocacy goes against values - A conservative pro-Israel community organisation that opposes an Indigenous voice to parliament has hit out at representative bodies for actively campaigning on the referendum, saying the ?Albanese government's proposal was "contrary to Jewish values and community interests". Many major Jewish organisations have backed the voice, ?saying it resonates with them ?because they understand what it's like to be voiceless.
#19487389 at 2023-09-04 09:11:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #31: MAGIC SWORD - IN THE FACE OF EVIL Edition
#31 - Part 30
Indigenous Voice To Parliament Referendum - Part 1
>>19194398 Women, regional voters lead rebellion on Indigenous voice to parliament: Newspoll - The referendum for an Indigenous voice to parliament has suffered a collapse in support among women voters and in the regions as the referendum heads toward defeat, with just 41 per cent of voters now saying they will vote yes.
>>19194411 Thomas Mayo and Kate Chaney get plaudits in Perth, but WA regions rail against the voice - Out in the WA farming and mining electorate of O'Connor, Liberal MP Rick Wilson sees baked-in opposition. In the last week of June, Wilson ran a survey of his own email database. Though it lacked any of the rigour of a poll, Wilson's survey concluded 80.1 per cent of the 1487 respondents intended to vote No at the voice referendum later this year.
>>19194426 Thomas Mayo says Indigenous voice to parliament will be 'difficult to ignore' - Prominent Yes campaigner Thomas Mayo says an Indigenous voice to parliament will be "difficult to ignore" as he hits out at "disappointing" personal attacks that he says have been hurtful. He would keep talking to Australians telling them the voice would be modest, meaningful, uniting and something that would be celebrated forever.
>>19194442 Thomas Mayo - Voice to Parliament will close gaps and address glaring issue at nation's heart - "How can we say we are the greatest country of all when we are the only like nation with no constitutional recognition of our original habitants. Far from great - Indigenous Australians are proportionately the most incarcerated people on the planet. We are the worst in the world in terms of Indigenous health, education and employment outcomes. At the referendum, we are responding to a simple and modest proposition: should our constitution include recognition of the First Peoples of Australia by granting them the fairness of a say." - Thomas Mayo - canberratimes.com.au
>>19194448 Anthony Albanese confident 'focus' will lead to Yes vote for Indigenous voice to parliament referendum - Anthony Albanese has declared the referendum for the Indigenous voice to parliament will be supported by a majority of the people and a majority of the states on the back of a short, five or six week campaign which will be the chance to turn around the negative polling.
>>19194465 Details aside, the vibe won't win voice referendum - Yes case advocates may have misunderstood the lessons of the 2017 same-sex marriage plebiscite and last year's federal election that brought a Labor left faction prime minister to power. Voice advocates see both as signs Australia has moved left.
>>19194492 Tony Abbott accuses companies supporting The Voice of 'shareholder abuse' - Former prime minister Tony Abbott has accused "woke companies" of "shareholder abuse" by publicly supporting the referendum. The former politician added there was "absolutely no doubt that the new left establishment is massively behind this Voice for all sorts of reasons."
>>19194500 Indigenous group demands $2.5m for WA tree planting events - More tree planting events in WA were cancelled due to claims by peak environmental body, the South East Regional Centre for Urban Landcare, that Perth-based Whadjuk Aboriginal Corporation is withholding approvals until $2.5m in compensation is received.
>>19199716 Speaking out: opposing camps state their reasons for and against an Indigenous voice to parliament - Australians will be told the ?Indigenous voice to parliament is a "leap into the unknown" when they receive the official No pamphlet in the mail, while the Yes ?brochure promises constitutional recognition with concrete results, as Anthony Albanese concedes the Yes case needs to be made stronger.
>>19199725 Greg Craven 'beside myself with rage' after Indigenous voice to parliament No pamphlet quotes him - Conservative constitutional lawyer and prominent Yes campaigner Greg Craven says he's "beside myself with rage" after one of his quotes criticising the government's preferred model for an Indigenous voice to parliament was used in the official No pamphlet.
>>19199734 Indigenous people thriving without voice: Mundine - No campaign leader Warren Mundine says the world "wouldn't give a bugger" if the Indigenous voice was shot down at the referendum, arguing Australia is already taking great steps to improve the lives of Aboriginal people.
>>19199738 No campaign 'outdated, missed opportunity': Leeser - Liberal backbencher Julian Leeser has criticised Peter Dutton's arguments against the voice, claiming the No campaign is outdated and could lead to a "missed opportunity" for Australians.
#19481591 at 2023-09-03 09:52:52 (UTC+1)
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>>19481586
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Hitting the hustings alongside ACT independent senator David Pocock in the Canberra suburb of Woden on Saturday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described the ad as "extraordinarily powerful", and took aim at the No campaign. "Compare that with the campaign against this, which is negative, based upon things that aren't going to happen," Albanese said.
Uluru Dialogue and Yes23 are the two key Yes campaign organisations. Uluru Dialogue has been running a low-key campaign, largely focusing on holding information sessions in regional areas, while Yes23 has co-ordinated the larger national advocacy effort, concentrating on cities.
Farnham's support marks something of a departure for the Yes campaign, which has otherwise pivoted away from celebrity endorsements so not to isolate ordinary voters, while trying to neutralise attacks from the No side about its support from "elite" sources such as Wesfarmers, Qantas and other big corporates.
A Yes23 insider, who was not authorised to speak publicly about the group's strategy, said the campaign would still selectively use high-profile people who resonated with "ordinary Australians", pointing to recent endorsements from singers Paul Kelly and Jimmy Barnes.
Leading No campaigner Warren Mundine said they would also be ramping up their advertising spend over the coming weeks.
"Social media is a big thing for us. Yes, of course we'll be doing some TV ads, but most of it is going to be done in the battleground states of Tasmania and South Australia," he said.
Farnham's endorsement continues a historical trend of campaigns tapping into the gravitas of high-profile figures to sell a message.
A host of celebrities were at the forefront of Gough Whitlam's 1972 election victory for Labor. The phrase "It's Time" was popularised and followed by a catchy song featured in a TV commercial and sung by celebrities including Little Pattie, Jacki Weaver, Bobby Limb, Jack Thompson, Barry Crocker, Col Joye and Bert Newton.
Jazz and soul singer Renee Geyer sang the 1975 Liberal Party campaign theme Turn On The Lights for the election after the dismissal of the Whitlam government.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/john-farnham-backs-voice-permits-his-anthem-to-front-yes-campaign-ad-20230901-p5e18t.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFpNnJS10Sc
#19458908 at 2023-08-30 09:12:41 (UTC+1)
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No campaign takes aim at PM
Federal Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and former politician Nyunggai Warren Mundine, two of the No campaigns most prominent spokespeople, went to Tasmania to mark the referendum date being set.
The duo will head to Adelaide to campaign on Thursday.
Senator Nampijinpa Price accused the prime minister of "dividing our country".
"To suggest we have not had a voice is completely and utterly misleading," she told reporters in Hobart.
"We will not allow for the prime minister and this referendum to divide our country along the lines of race within our constitution."
Both campaigns expect NSW and Victoria are likely to vote Yes, with Queensland and Western Australia likely to vote No.
Senator Nampijinpa Price said she was pleased with how polls in South Australia and Tasmania were tracking for the No campaign.
The question being put to Australians
"A Proposed Law: to alter the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Do you approve this proposed alteration?"
If passed, the constitution would be amended to include a new chapter, which would be titled "Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples".
The details would be:
In recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Peoples of Australia:
1.There shall be a body, to be called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice;
2.The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice may make representations to the Parliament and the Executive Government of the Commonwealth on matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples;
3.The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws with respect to matters relating to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, including its composition, functions, powers and procedures.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-30/voice-to-parliament-referendum-date-set-october-14/102757140
#19397646 at 2023-08-21 09:58:20 (UTC+1)
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>>19222755
>>19297392
Penny Wong and Noel Pearson hit the churches and the temples to preach for the voice
PAIGE TAYLOR - AUGUST 21, 2023
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After a weekend of preaching to the converted at Labor's national conference, the ALP and the Yes campaign are hitting the temples and the churches to convert ?undecided voters to the voice.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong and voice co-architect Noel Pearson were invited to a Sikh temple in Adelaide's Allenby Gardens on Sunday to speak to worshippers about constitutional change that would guarantee an Indigenous advisory body and, proponents argue, close the gap where previous attempts have failed. At the revered langar - the community kitchen of the temple - they served food to the worshippers, following the ancient Sikh tradition of feeding anyone who is hungry and in need.
Mr Pearson, who has taken a leading role in promoting the Yes case throughout the country in recent weeks, told The Australian religious leaders would play a ?pivotal role in the campaign.
"Faith traditions and people of faith share values of social justice, reconciliation, human equality, and peace. We share these aspirations and seek this through this recognition," he said on Sunday.
"More than 50 per cent of ?Australians identify as people of faith, and faith leaders have the opportunity to present the critical facts to their communities about recognition through voice so they can make an informed decision based on facts, not fear."
But in Perth, 2700km west of the City of Churches, the No campaign's most faithful supporters were out in force.
More than 1000 people - many of them queuing for hours for the best seats - were eager to hear the voice gospel according to opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, South Australian senator Kerrynne Liddle and No case leader Nyunggai Warren Mundine. The Liberals for No campaign launch was a loud and strident ?critique of Anthony ?Albanese and a proposal that Senator Price said would divide the nation on race lines.
"I understand love and acceptance and tolerance ... instead of gaslighting and emotional blackmail, which is what we're seeing on a national scale being driven by our Prime Minister," Senator Price said.
In Western Australia, senator Michaelia Cash has driven a ?potent campaign against the voice by linking it to the Cook Labor government's unpopular Aboriginal heritage laws. When the Cook government abandoned the laws last week, Senator Cash was able to use it as a demonstration of the permanency of constitutional change.
She said: "They were bad laws and the fact that they were able to dump them says this: You can scrap a bad law, but guess what? If you change the Constitution, you cannot alter it. It is already changed."
Yes campaign insiders claim the referendum is still up for grabs, despite polls suggesting ?opposition is starting to look baked in. This is partly because of polling it believes shows about 40 per cent of voters are either "soft no" or undecided.
The campaign sees South Australia as ?potentially the deciding state. Faith groups are also seen as ?important partly because they allow one-on-one conversations between Yes campaigners and people who may not have made up their minds.
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#19387449 at 2023-08-19 14:01:42 (UTC+1)
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In his keynote address, Abbott told the crowd that defeating the Voice referendum was "the most important challenge we face as a nation right now".
"This generation of Aboriginal Australians are not victims. This generation of non-Aboriginal Australians are not oppressors," Abbott said.
"And the last thing that we should be doing right now is entrenching victimhood and institutionalising grievance in our governance arrangements and that's why there can only be one response to this referendum proposal and that is an absolutely resounding No."
Advance director Matthew Sheahan, who rarely speaks publicly about his controversial campaigning outfit, lifted the lid on its referendum strategy, saying research through polling and focus groups had informed its key messaging against the Voice as a proposal that is divisive.
"It was clear that division was the big, big factor for people voting No … But the big problem which we discovered and expected was that very few people knew about the referendum," Sheahan said.
"This was an opportunity because it gave us a chance to shape the conversation, to talk about things like the Uluru Statement and treaty, all on our terms." He urged the audience to sign up to staff pre-poll and polling booths on voting day, saying the No effort needed 40,000 volunteers to cover 170,000 volunteer hours.
CPAC chairman Warren Mundine, who along with Price are the two Indigenous leaders steering the No campaign, used his opening address to tell the crowd it was wrong to suggest that those who opposed the Voice were racist.
"All these people say that we're racist. Are you racist?" he asked the crowd.
"No!" they responded.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/inside-the-conservative-forum-rallying-troops-against-the-voice-20230819-p5dxsx.html
#19387408 at 2023-08-19 13:52:08 (UTC+1)
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>>19222755
>>19382273
A tale of two conferences: a choice between hope and despair
MARCUS STEWART - AUGUST 19, 2023
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Allow me to borrow an idea from the great author Charles Dickens and tell you a tale of two political conferences. Both are occurring over the next week - and neither is the ALP national conference, which kicked off on Thursday in Brisbane and is already gaining plenty of attention.
But in Sydney, a very different meeting of political minds is occurring this weekend with CPAC Australia's conference at The Star. Headlining the CPAC program are Warren Mundine and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price - so no prizes for guessing the No campaign against a voice to parliament will be a focus this year.
Then on Thursday, Uluru Youth Dialogue will launch its Hands On Heart conference at Barangaroo, with more than 100 young delegates expected to attend to learn more about the referendum and how they can educate and motivate others to vote yes.
There could be no better illustration of the differences between the Yes and No campaigns than these two contrasting conferences.
CPAC stands for Conservative Political Action Conference, which has been hosted by the American Conservative Union for almost 50 years. That's right - the American Conservative Union. CPAC's presence in Australia is a much more recent phenomenon, with the Americans only establishing a franchise here in 2019.
When CPAC was founded in America in the 1970s, it was known as a thoughtful gathering for Republicans; Ronald Reagan gave the inaugural address, his now famous "A Shining City Upon A Hill" speech. While conservative, the conference was nevertheless known for welcoming a variety of views from that end of the political spectrum, especially in the run-up to the presidential elections, when any Republican hoping to score the nomination would make an appearance.
More recently, however, CPAC has morphed into an unabashedly pro-Trump circus. This year, Donald Trump was the only potential Republican presidential candidate to show up - and the only one welcome, apparently. News reports documented sparse audiences gathering amid garish stands selling Trump paraphernalia. Meanwhile, the CPAC website spruiks a range of ultra-right campaigns, from opposing "socialised medicine" (to those of us in Australia, that's the sort of public healthcare we enjoy with Medicare) to "stopping woke companies".
CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp, a wealthy political adviser and lobbyist, will appear at the Australian conference this weekend alongside Matthew Whitaker, who served briefly as acting attorney-general to Trump, despite nine legal challenges to his appointment.
Australians love to think of themselves as larrikins who thumb their noses at suits and sophisticates. But not the CPAC Australia mob. Among the current and former Coalition MPs scrambling to share a stage with the grizzled men of the Grand Old Party are Tony Abbott, Barnaby Joyce, Bridget McKenzie, Keith Pitt, Alex Antic, Ted O'Brien and Bronwyn Bishop.
And, of course, Mundine and Price. This pair love to present themselves as champions of "average" Australians, squaring off against the "elites" of Canberra. But it's hard to imagine a more elite look in politics than sharing a stage in a ballroom at The Star with two Trump loyalists.
That's the No campaign. Full of doublespeak and hyperbole, happy to trade in misinformation and outright lies, and to demonise their opponents when called out. Just like Donald Trump.
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#19382273 at 2023-08-18 14:55:35 (UTC+1)
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>>19222755
>>19297392
Warren Mundine to launch 'vision' at Conservative Political Action Conference
PAIGE TAYLOR - AUGUST 18, 2023
Indigenous entrepreneur Warren Mundine says it is time for Australian conservatives to rejoin discussions they once led on equality and rights. He flagged the Conservative Political Action Conference in Sydney as the forum to set out the movement's commitments to Closing the Gap and economic prosperity for Indigenous Australians.
Mr Mundine and Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, the Coalition's spokeswoman on Indigenous affairs, will speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Sydney on Saturday. They are expected to reiterate their arguments against the Indigenous voice to parliament, as fellow speakers, including Tony Abbott and Pauline Hanson, are predicted to do.
However, Mr Mundine told The Weekend Australian his speech was mainly his vision for building a conservative Australian movement that was not tied to any party. About 2000 people were due to attend the conference. Ticket prices ranged from $119 to $7000 for a platinum package that included access to speakers at a VIP welcome cocktail event on Friday night. "It's about the battle of ideas, free markets, free speech, freedom of religion, small government and small taxation," he said.
The former chairman of Mr Abbott's Indigenous Advisory Council said conservative commitments to outcomes was important, "especially for me, as an Indigenous person". "We need to talk about Closing the Gap and holding bureaucrats and governments across the country to account for all the billions of dollars they spend on Closing the Gap, and make sure they are getting clear outcomes," he said.
Mr Mundine said that on this point and some others, he and Indigenous proponents of the voice to parliament agreed.
"The good news is that we are not far apart on some of these issues," Mr Mundine said.
"And the Australian public too. They want recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Constitution as I do. The Closing the Gap people want practical outcomes like I do.
"We may differ on how we get there and how we do that but I will always open the door to conversations because we can have negotiations about how that happens. For example, how do we get economic prosperity for Aboriginal people? How do we get them living longer lives, better educated?"
Mr Mundine said these questions were the right ones for conservatives in Australia, and said this was in line with a history of post-war reforms by conservative Australian politicians beginning with the Menzies government's 1962 Commonwealth Electoral Act granting all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people the option to enrol and vote in federal elections.
"Conservatives were the people who pushed for rights and equality, and now we are going to get back into that space," Mr Mundine said. "We want to be part of those discussions again."
Mr Mundine has argued for the merits of local and regional Indigenous voices to give traditional owner groups a say on their own languages, cultures, heritage, land and sea. However, he does not believe a national voice could properly represent those groups.
In an address to Torres Strait Islands residents this month, Cape York Partnerships founder Noel Pearson described how local and regional voices could work there. He outlined a scenario in which the 16 islands of the Torres Strait each chose one voice and the Torres Straits as a whole selected a regional voice from those people.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/Warren-Mundine-to-launch-vision-at-conservative-political-action-conference/news-story/250e63638b93af62f21d43e9bc352456
#19382262 at 2023-08-18 14:52:53 (UTC+1)
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>>19222755
>>19297392
Anthony Albanese presses go to super-charge Indigenous voice to parliament campaign
GEOFF CHAMBERS - AUGUST 18, 2023
Anthony Albanese, senior cabinet ministers and state premiers are preparing a nationwide blitz of battleground states and electorates, as the ALP and union campaign machines swing behind the Yes23 grassroots movement ahead of the voice referendum.
The Prime Minister and Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney on Saturday will use speeches on the final day of the ALP national conference in Brisbane to springboard Labor's Yes campaign ahead of an expected October 14 referendum.
Local Yes supporter groups, now established in every federal electorate and embedded with pro-Yes Labor and Liberal MPs, will be bolstered by more than 20,000 volunteers who will lead doorknocking, letterboxing and phone canvassing operations in coming weeks.
The Weekend Australian understands Ms Burney will use her conference address to energise the labour movement to join the Yes campaign and lead conversations in local communities to win the referendum.
Mr Albanese, along with senior colleagues and popular premiers including Peter Malinauskas, Daniel Andrews and Chris Minns, will step up efforts targeting soft voters when the prime minister fires the starting gun on the referendum campaign.
Government sources confirmed September 10 is the cut-off to call an October 14 referendum.
Pro-voice operatives said the interaction between political and grassroots campaigns would seek to avoid MPs leading the daily debate or taking control of the Yes23 strategy. While the Yes23 campaign will outspend No's Fair Australia campaign across mass media markets in the final five to six weeks of the campaign, pro-voice backers are ramping up on-the-ground operations targeting train stations in peak periods, shopping centres and weekend markets.
The ALP's campaign machine will unleash an election-style digital media advertising blitz aimed at reaching millions of Australians.
A campaign source said direct voter contact and face-to-face conversations explaining what the voice proposal entails were key to flipping soft voters.
Outside the capital cities, the Uluru Dialogue is leading the campaign push in the regions.
Liberals for Yes is also planning events led by former opposition Indigenous Australians spokesman Julian Leeser, Bass MP Brid?get Archer and Kate Carnell.
The Yes campaign is seeking to amplify the cross-party alliance in support of the voice, including Labor, Liberals, Greens and independents Helen Haines, Andrew Wilkie, Allegra Spender and David Pocock.
Prominent Yes campaigner Noel Pearson joined South Australian Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young in Adelaide on Friday, and Yes23 campaign director Dean Parkin held events with NSW Liberal MPs Matt Kean, James Griffin and Felicity Wilson last week.
Amid expectations that Queensland and Western Australia will oppose the voice, the No side will push hard to win South Australia or Tasmania.
Prominent No campaigners Warren Mundine and opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Price launched the WA Liberals for No campaign in Perth on Friday alongside Liberal senators Michaelia Cash and Kerrynne Liddle.
Ahead of national conference endorsing the voice, Mr Albanese said his Labor caucus and party were "united" on the referendum.
"This isn't a matter of ?convenience. This is a matter of conviction.
"This is about recognising our First Nations people in our Constitution after 122 years, and then it's simply about listening in order to get better results," Mr Albanese said.
"We can't continue to just do more of the same, And constitutional change isn't easy. We know eight out of 48 referendums have passed, and only one that's been put forward by the Labor Party has passed."
Mr Albanese repeated his claim that if the referendum failed, "it will be a setback for reconciliation, and it will be a lost opportunity".
"What we know from the Republic referendum that was held at the end of the last century, the last time we had a referendum, is not only has it not returned in the quarter of a century almost since, it's not on the horizon in the next couple of years either," he said.
"This is in the hands of the Australian people.
"I will do my best to promote a Yes vote. I was fully aware, when I said that we would hold a referendum, there were people who said that's a risk.
"Of course, it's a risk. Change is hard. But this is necessary."
Mr Albanese said the referendum would be in October or November and the government was working with the AEC.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/pm-presses-go-on-alp-voice-campaign/news-story/8e925b701bd7800fde99a0c6c5097487
#19367937 at 2023-08-16 09:38:34 (UTC+1)
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Albanese rules out legislating the voice if No campaign prevails
JOE KELLY and SARAH ISON - AUGUST 15, 2023
Anthony Albanese has ruled out legislating a voice to parliament if the referendum is defeated this year, pledging that he will honour a No vote and the decision of the Australian people.
In his most definitive comments to date on the issue, the Prime Minister said that simply legislating a voice, rather than enshrining the advisory body in the Constitution, also was not the outcome Indigenous leaders had asked of the Australian people.
"The Australian people - we are giving them a say," he told an extended podcast with 3AW's Neil Mitchell. "The idea that the Australian people vote 'no' and I say, 'well, that's OK, thanks very much for participating in the referendum, we are going to do it anyway'. No. I won't do that."
Mr Albanese made clear there was no point legislating a voice that could not be enshrined in the Constitution because "that is not what they (Indigenous Australians) have asked for".
He said putting the voice in the nation's foundational document was "such a modest request".
"What's happening with the voice here and this constitutional change is that Indigenous Australians - in spite of what has occurred to them - are putting out their hand in a gesture of friendship and reconciliation and engagement."
The clarification from Mr Albanese came as Indigenous leader Tom Calma, a voice co-architect, called out the No campaign for "total inconsistency" after Warren Mundine, one of the leading opponents of the voice, reaffirmed his ongoing support for the treaty process.
Mr Mundine, a leading a spokesman for the No campaign, told ABC radio on Tuesday he supported "treaties between the First Nations and the commonwealth" and had done so consistently for the past three decades.
The stance puts him at odds with Peter Dutton, who has warned the treaty process would involve "billions and billions and billions of dollars" and "lawyers sitting round tables in Sydney and Melbourne negotiating this".
Professor Calma, the Senior Australian of the Year, said the conflict between Mr Dutton and Mr Mundine showed "total inconsistency".
"It needs to be called out," he told The Australian.
"It's just a distraction from the main game. Getting the referendum up, that's what we are all focused on. The treaty-making process is the next thing to be considered. It's not (being considered) now.
"States and territories are already doing it. We're seeing those discussions on treaty and negotiations. People need to discern between what's happening nationally and at a state level."
Mr Mundine told ABC radio he thought the nation was "going down the wrong track on treaties at the moment", arguing that treaties could only be negotiated between the commonwealth and each individual Aboriginal nation.
"I've always said this, for over 30 years ... I don't back away from that, unlike Albanese, who is sort of running from the treaty process at the moment," he said. "I know some of my supporters don't support that particular thing. But I'm always on principle on these things."
He rejected the idea the No campaign was using the treaty process to wage a scare campaign against the voice, arguing it was a "campaign that is pointing out that there is not enough details about these things".
Mr Mundine also revealed he had kicked two people off the No campaign because of racist comments.
"I don't appreciate racist comments," he said. "I've got rid of them and I don't accept any racist comments from anyone in regard to these issues ... we've got to out these people. And I don't take people on who make comments like this."
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/albanese-rules-out-legislating-the-voice-if-no-campaign-prevails/news-story/616ddb799d99adddadb200c483ceced5
#19361927 at 2023-08-15 09:37:39 (UTC+1)
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>>19222755
>>19297392
>>19361898
No campaign dumps campaigners over racist remarks, distances itself from Adler
'Paul Sakkal - August 15, 2023
No campaign leader Nyunggai Warren Mundine has revealed he pushed two people out of his referendum campaign over allegedly racist comments, as he distanced himself from under-fire No figure David Adler.
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said on Tuesday that Opposition Leader Peter Dutton should disassociate himself from Adler after this masthead reported he repeatedly questioned senator Lidia Thorpe's Aboriginal heritage and suggested Indigenous journalist Stan Grant artificially darkened his skin.
Mundine said Adler's comments were "bizarre" and, without referring directly to Adler, said questioning an Indigenous person's cultural heritage constituted a "disgusting ... racist attack".
Speaking on ABC's Radio National on Tuesday morning, Mundine said Adler was not involved in his No outfit, called Recognise a Better Way. Adler is involved in a separate body called Advance, on whose advisory board he sits alongside figures including former prime minister Tony Abbott.
Dreyfus, one of Australia's most senior Jewish MPs, claimed Adler's statements were disgraceful and said the Australian Jewish Association, run by Adler, was unrepresentative of the Jewish community.
"Mr Dutton needs to start dissociating himself from this kind of material," Dreyfus said. "The No campaign needs to stop using disinformation and dissociate itself from the kind of hateful, revolting material that we've seen from people like Mr David Adler."
Although Mundine distanced himself from Adler, the pair appear in photographs together that were taken in recent months, and Adler cited his relationship with Mundine as proof of his positive attitude towards Indigenous Australians.
As he responded to questions about Adler, Mundine disclosed he had let go two figures in his own No outfit due to offensive commentary. He declined to provide details on each case, other than to say the volunteers were not prominent and one made anti-Semitic comments.
"I've actually kicked several people off our campaign regarding their comments and I intend to keep on doing that," the former Labor Party national president turned Liberal candidate said.
"I don't appreciate racist comments ... We've got to out these people."
NSW Liberal MP Matt Kean, who is involved in the Yes campaign, said it was incumbent on Mundine to reveal all the details about the sackings.
"Warren Mundine just admitted to [ABC host Patricia Karvelas] that the No campaign has secretly sacked two campaign workers due to their racist views," Kean posted on social media. "The No campaign can't cover up this racism scandal. They must release the details, and explain why they sacked these two workers".
Mundine defended Grant and said he was a "brother" whom he had known since university. Grant's Indigenous heritage was not in question, Mundine stressed.
The anti-Voice activist accused Indigenous leader Noel Pearson of "one of the worst racial slurs an Aboriginal people can receive" for previously suggesting Mundine and fellow No campaigner Jacinta Price were puppets for white conservatives.
This masthead decided to publish Adler's comments because of the active public debate about Australian race relations enlivened by the referendum. Advance, which publicly discloses few details about its operations, and its leading figures are also worthy of scrutiny given the important role the group has in running the No side.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/no-campaign-dumps-staff-over-racist-remarks-distances-itself-from-adler-20230815-p5dwm3.html
https://twitter.com/DrDavidAdler1/status/1687049511645138944
#19361898 at 2023-08-15 09:25:30 (UTC+1)
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>>19222755
>>19297392
No campaigner's comments on Stan Grant, Lidia Thorpe labelled 'disgusting', 'grotesque'
Paul Sakkal - August 14, 2023
Remarks from a key figure in the Voice No campaign about Indigenous journalist Stan Grant and independent senator Lidia Thorpe have been condemned and labelled disgusting and grotesque.
Australian Jewish Association head David Adler, who sits on the advisory board of top No outfit Advance with former prime minister Tony Abbott, insists he was not trying to insult the prominent Indigenous pair when he questioned Thorpe's Aboriginal heritage and repeatedly suggested Grant had artificially darkened his skin.
Days after Grant stepped down as host of the ABC's Q+A citing racist abuse in May, Adler posted pictures of the Wiradjuri man on social media that he said showed "STAN GRANT'S COMPLEXION SEEMS TO HAVE CHANGED".
"Look at the 3 pics. Can anyone explain?"
In March, Adler posted the same image with the caption: "IS STAN GRANT DOING 'BLACK FACE'? If so, why?"
On four occasions in 2022, the Voice opponent, involved in the outfit closely linked to Coalition Indigenous affairs spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, also raised questions about Thorpe's background.
"What % Aboriginal are you? You appear quite white," he posted on social media in March 2022. "Not so sure she's Blak (or Black)."
Adler, who has used his leadership of the Jewish association to castigate other Australian Jewish bodies for supporting the Voice, claimed in January that, "What is 'racist' is allowing people to drink themselves to death they bash/rape/murder the women/children & turning a blind eye to it because they are Aboriginal!"
In relation to the ABC, Adler has said, "If you self-identify as a black lesbian, you'll get the job."
When asked about the comments, Adler said he would not apologise for them and said he could not recall the remarks about Thorpe.
"I am 100 per cent zero racism. I have Aboriginal friends, the most prominent being [leading No campaigner] Warren Mundine, and you'll see photos of me with him."
Advance is a right-wing campaigning group started in 2018 as a counterweight to activist group GetUp. It is led by Matthew Sheahan and claims it has a 250,000-strong supporter base fighting "woke politicians and elitist activist groups ... taking Aussies for a ride with their radical agenda".
Separate from the Liberal Party's referendum campaign, it is the main referendum outfit on the No side.
The most senior members of the Liberal Party, including mainstream conservatives, are wary of the Coalition being dragged to the right by association with Advance.
Three sources, who asked to remain anonymous to speak freely, said Liberal officials had worked to ensure the party was not sharing its databases and resources with Advance as it campaigned against the Voice.
This masthead decided to publish Adler's comments because of the active public debate about Australian race relations enlivened by the referendum. Advance, which publicly discloses few details about its operations, and its leading figures are also worthy of scrutiny given the important role the group has in running the No side.
Responding to Adler, Thorpe said the No campaign should be ashamed to work with groups such as Advance.
"I called it out early that there is a racist No campaign that is encouraging racists and hurting our people," she said in a statement. "The government created this space for them and has failed in its responsibility to deal with the rise in racism."
Grant declined to comment.
Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council chairman Mark Leibler said Adler had recently used anti-Semitic tropes to delegitimise support for the Voice expressed by several Jewish groups.
Leibler, who co-chaired the 2012 expert panel on constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians and the later council that culminated in the Uluru statement, added: "The notion that someone who leads a so-called 'Jewish organisation' could post such disgusting comments about anyone from another minority group, in this case the highly regarded journalist and author Stan Grant, is nothing short of grotesque.
"While the Jewish community is already well aware that the views of this fringe organisation and its president are utterly incompatible with Jewish values, this latest revelation should make it clear to the broader Australian community that Adler is simply an unrepresentative extremist."
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/no-figure-s-stan-grant-lidia-thorpe-comments-labelled-disgusting-grotesque-20230814-p5dw9m.html
https://twitter.com/DrDavidAdler1/status/1660551657221160962
#19361889 at 2023-08-15 09:20:19 (UTC+1)
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Prime Minister accuses No campaign of spreading AI misinformation
JOE KELLY - AUGUST 15, 2023
Anthony Albanese has accused the No campaign of spreading AI-generated misinformation ahead of the voice referendum, escalating his attack on media commentators opposed to his proposed constitutional change, including Peta Credlin and ?Andrew Bolt.
On WSFM radio with Amanda Keller and Brendan Jones, the Prime Minister said it was ?"pretty scary frankly, some of the No campaign and stuff that's going into people's Facebook posts which is designed to spread misinformation".
"Some of it is AI-generated, some of it generated, of course, by people like the commentators that you have said."
The commentators mentioned by Jones included Sky News hosts Credlin and Bolt, with Mr Albanese arguing on Monday that "some of the media outlets are pretty determined to promote the No campaign."
His claim AI technology was being used to attack the voice was rejected by the No campaign, spokeswoman Jacinta Price accusing the government of a "campaign of misinformation, spin, and outright lies".
"This time using the soft touch media of FM radio to slander the No campaign and media commentators with their divisive untruths around the use of AI," Senator Price said. "I, and many Australians, are in disbelief that the PM seems to be able to speak in great detail about the No campaign, but unable to speak to any of the detail in his divisive voice proposal."
It is the second time the No campaign has been forced to reject accusations it is using AI technology after former ?NAIDOC co-chair and journalist John Paul Janke made the claim on the ABC's Insiders program on August 6.
Janke said the No campaign had used AI to make it appear "like it is an Indigenous person supporting the No campaign".
The video Janke was referring to was made by a group called Constitutional Equality, run by cryptocurrency trader Phillip Mobbs, which has no connection with the No campaign.
Mr Mobbs told the ABC last week he had never had any contact with No campaign spokespeople Warren Mundine or Senator Price.
Bolt told The Australian he challenged Mr Albanese to "identify the misinformation he claims I've spread".
"Many of my pieces have been written to correct his misinformation, including fake claims that the voice would only give advice on matters directly affecting Aboriginals and the voice wouldn't ask the High Court to overrule the government," Bolt said. "That is the misinformation that I think is extremely dangerous and deceitful."
Mr Albanese singled out Credlin for particular criticism after the former chief-of-staff to Tony Abbott said the Uluru Statement from the Heart was a longer document than the 439-word statement made in 2017.
Credlin said the longer document was an "angry manifesto of grievance, separatism, division and compensation".
Speaking on ABC radio on Monday, Mr Albanese said: "Peta Credlin is a smart person. She must know that that's not true.
"She is saying things that she knows is not true. As is Peter Dutton ... no serious person thinks that that's the case."
Credlin told The Australian: "The people wheeled out last week to bolster the PM's claim that it's just a ... one-page poster are all the same people who for six years since Uluru have implored us to read what they regard as the full document of many pages in length.
"It just doesn't stack up, that suddenly what's been true for years is not true now ... As to the slights and the slurs, quite honestly that just says to me we are getting closer and closer to the truth."
While Mr Albanese told the ABC The Australian had provided "substantial coverage of the Yes campaign as well as the No campaign", he has ramped up criticism of journalists who have covered the No campaign.
Speaking in parliament earlier this month, he took aim at both The Daily Telegraph's ?national affairs editor James Morrow and 2GB radio host Ray Hadley.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/prime-minister-accuses-no-campaign-of-spreading-ai-misinformation/news-story/d3c351e1267b7c9802edebdb941ff4ab
#19326823 at 2023-08-09 12:18:19 (UTC+1)
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Indigenous voice to parliament: AI No group denies relationship with Warren Mundine and Jacinta Price
REMY VARGA - AUGUST 7, 2023
The man behind a No campaign group that has drawn criticism for using AI generated videos has denied having a formal or informal relationship with Warren Mundine or Country-Liberal senator Jacinta Price.
The ABC was forced to issue a statement of clarification after former NAIDOC co-chair and journalist John Paul Janke said voice opponents were using AI to make it appear "like it is an ?Indigenous person supporting the No campaign".
Phillip Mobbs, who is running Constitutional Equality, said AI was a cost-effective way to create campaign videos that reflected multicultural Australia. "What you'll observe is the avatar is clearly not Indigenous but (it) does reflect the multicultural society we live in," he said.
"It is a person of colour, a brown person of colour, who reflects the vast bulk of our wonderful multicultural society.
"It's a false accusation [and] again notice the Yes campaign is introducing race into the debate."
Mr Mobbs, whose background is in education, said he had no relationship with Senator Price, Mr Mundine or No campaign group Advance Australia.
The Constitutional Equality Facebook page is followed by about 2000 people.
Janke on Sunday told ABC program Insiders that the No campaign was behind the use of AI and doubled down when questioned by host David Speers on whether it was the official No campaign or a random group.
"They are supporting obviously different voices, and they are under the guise of moderate ?voices against the voice like it's Australians for Unity, but they are using AI of a Blak character supporting the No case," he said.
The ABC later issued a statement clarifying that the Australians for Unity campaign, which is co-ordinated by Mr Mundine and Senator Price, was not affiliated with the AI generated videos.
An SBS spokesman said it continued to support Janke for raising awareness of misinformation and disinformation around the proposed voice on social media.
"Some of these videos using AI have attracted over 85,000 views and his comments highlight the important discussion needed around the nature of such campaign techniques," he said.
"On NITV and through our coverage across the SBS network, we're focused on ensuring all ?Australians have access to accurate news and information during this debate."
Mr Mundine and Senator Price deny using AI in their campaign materials.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/indigenous-voice-to-parliament-ai-no-group-denies-relationship-with-Warren-Mundine-and-jacinta-price/news-story/8ed2cb98096a74098ad482ca1a84c943
#19308112 at 2023-08-06 10:17:29 (UTC+1)
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'Complete lie': Jacinta Price rejects claims No campaign using fake images of Indigenous people
ELLIE DUDLEY - AUGUST 6, 2023
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No campaigner Warren Mundine and Country-Liberal senator Jacinta Price have knocked back "racist" allegations they have used AI-generated images of Aboriginal people to encourage people to oppose the Indigenous voice.
Former NAIDOC co-chair and journalist John Paul Janke on Sunday told ABC Insiders that voice opposers had created the AI-generated images "to try to look like it is an Indigenous person supporting the No campaign".
"Online, the No campaign have multiple social media pages. Some of them are now using AI with a Blak Indigenous character to try to look like it is an Indigenous person supporting the No campaign," he said, speaking from the Garma festival.
When host David Speers interjected to question whether it was the official No campaign or "some random", Mr Janke doubled down.
"No, from the No campaign. They are supporting obviously different voices, and they are under the guise of moderate voices against the voice like it's Australians for Unity, but they are using AI of a Blak character that is supporting the No case," he said.
Senator Price labelled the accusations "racist" and "offensive" and said they were completely baseless.
"Of all the racist, offensive, inaccurate things that have been said about this No campaign, this is probably the worst," she tweeted on Sunday afternoon. "According to the ABC, the No campaign @FairAusADV (Advance Australia) has created AI fake Indigenous Australians who are voting no," she said. "A complete and utter lie!"
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#19267275 at 2023-07-30 10:09:45 (UTC+1)
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Key voice architect Megan Davis criticises media for coverage of the voice referendum
SOPHIE ELSWORTH - JULY 30, 2023
Key voice to parliament architects have accused the media of "driving sentiment" towards a no vote while conceding their own messaging needs to be positive.
Numerous polls in recent months have shown declining support for a yes vote at the upcoming referendum and advocates Megan Davis and Noel Pearson are among those to criticise the mainstream media's coverage of the debate.
Professor Davis, the Balnaves chair in constitutional law at the University of NSW, lambasted the media last week and said she had seen significant support for a yes vote while visiting communities across the country, which was at odds to negative media coverage showing falling support.
"We are having deep conversations with Aussies and we are not picking up, nor is Yes23, the kind of sentiment that we are seeing in the media, where they are driving the sentiment ... downwards, to no," she told ABC presenter Phillip Adams on his Late Night Live program last week.
"We don't believe it will be a no, we believe it will be a yes. We absolutely believe in the fundamental decency of Australians to understand the voice and the exigency of the voice and why this is one of our last chances at change."
Prof Davis criticised politicians leading the voice debate including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price while taking a veiled swipe at the media.
"All (people) are hearing is Albo, Jacinta, Dutton, politician, politician, politician," she said.
"The Uluru Statement from the Heart was issued to the Australian people because we know how the media behave and we know how retail politics happens in Australia."
Mr Albanese has yet to set a date for the referendum and this month admitted the yes campaign must "be stronger" in putting forward its arguments.
Mr Pearson was careful in his criticisms of the media when he addressed a La Trobe University online event last week but said the yes campaign had to be positive.
"Well it is what it is, there's not much I can do about that (the media) and not much anyone can do about that other than to persist with our case with dignity, with perseverance, with not shying away from our objective, we have got to be positive," he said.
"There's a lot of reason for grief and discombobulation but I just think we have got to keep our eyes on the prize, we have got to keep going.
"I'll leave it to the historians to tell us about how the media covered this campaign."
Mr Pearson sparked fury last year after he accused Senator Price of being trapped in a "redneck celebrity vortex" and using right-wing think tanks including the Centre for Independent Studies and Institute of Public Affairs to "punch down on other black fellas".
Mr Pearson doubled down on these comments in an opinion article published in The Australian in May and said Warren Mundine and Senator Price were "glove puppets" for the think tanks. "The fists inside the puppets punching down on Indigenous people are white," he wrote.
Constitutional lawyer Shireen Morris, a yes campaigner, moderated the La Trobe event and said they had constantly had to deal with "lies" said about the voice.
"We have to answer the lies with facts, we have to deal in the truth," she said.
This month The Australian reported on another voice architect, Thomas Mayo, who condemned the media for publishing "negative headlines" on "positive stories" about the voice saying it was harming the yes campaign.
Indigenous lawyer Teela Reid - an adviser on the Indigenous voice to parliament - also criticised social media and said people without authority in the Aboriginal community were getting traction when they shouldn't be.
"Often, especially around social media ... what you'll find is that there are the most popular voices (that) get traction or the most controversial opinions go viral and they are often not those people with authority in our community," she said on a recent episode of her podcast, Blak Matters, on Southern Cross Austereo's LiSTNR platform.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/key-voice-architect-megan-davis-criticises-media-for-coverage-of-the-voice-referendum/news-story/20f021a882f71162e82d874ab37dad28
#19250147 at 2023-07-27 11:12:18 (UTC+1)
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Chris Hipkins signals support for Indigenous voice to parliament through NZ example
ROSIE LEWIS - JULY 27, 2023
New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has held up his country as one that has successfully embraced reconciliation with its Indigenous people, in a strong signal of trans-Tasman support for the voice referendum.
Standing alongside Anthony Albanese in Wellington, Mr Hipkins would not comment directly on the looming poll on an Indigenous voice to parliament and executive government - acknowledging that it was a matter for the Australian people - but said New Zealand was a stronger country because of its Treaty of Waitangi.
While there had been controversies in New Zealand's path to reconcil?iation, Mr Hipkins assured Australians that life had moved on.
"I am firmly of the view that the process of reconciliation that New Zealand has been going through for a number of decades has been overwhelmingly positive for New Zealand. That doesn't mean that there haven't been bumps in the road, that doesn't mean there haven't been periods where it has been very controversial," Mr Hipkins said following the Australia-New Zealand leaders' meeting.
"But when I look back at some of those controversies, many of which have happened during my lifetime and actually during my adult lifetime, things moved on. Yes, they were controversial at the time and now many people would look back on them and wonder what was so controversial about them, because the reconciliation process has ulti?mately been very positive."
Mr Albanese stressed on numerous occasions that Australia's and New Zealand's histories were different but said there was a consciousness about the voice referendum when he spoke to people in the Pacific.
New Zealand is increasingly embedding its Maori heritage in its national affairs.
"Of all the First World nations that would form colonies, we are alone in not recognising the First Nations peoples ... Our history in Australia goes back before 1788 and that should be acknowledged in our nation's founding document," the Australian Prime Minister said.
"What is being asked to vote for (at the referendum) is very clear and very specific ... It's important that people know what the vote is for and what it is not.
"It is for those specific things of recognition, listening in order to achieve better outcomes."
As the polls show falling support for the voice, which is due to be voted on between October and December, leading No campaigner Warren Mundine declared there was nothing specific or clear about the referendum.
"That's the problem. Polling shows people are confused about it, that's the No. 1 issue they raise," he said.
"No one know what a voice is. It's just totally bizarre (Mr Albanese's claim). The good news is that the Australian public want recognition of Aboriginal people in the Constitution and want practical outcomes for Aboriginal people - they don't see the voice as bringing about those practical outcomes."
Former deputy Liberal leader Julie Bishop on Wednesday threw her support behind the voice, saying it would be a "a step in the right direction" and had to be given a chance.
She conceded the referendum was made more complex by two Indigenous leaders fronting the Yes and No cases in Noel Pearson and Mr Mundine, saying it put its success at greater risk and confused Australians.
"It is a step in the right direction. I sat through too many of those Closing the Gap speeches in parliament to sense that what we were doing was working to close the disparity and the inequality between Indigenous and non-indigenous populations," she told the National Press Club.
"In some instances, the key measures were getting worse, not better. So it's not a question of money, it's not a question of politicians coming up with policies, it's a question of giving Indigenous people the franchise to make decisions to implement policies that will work. We have got to give it a chance."
Ms Bishop would not say whether she was disappointed her party was campaigning against the voice or that Peter Dutton had labelled it divisive, Orwellian and something that would "re-racialise" Australia.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/chris-hipkins-signals-support-for-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-through-nz-example/news-story/358fa16ac89c14edd44b90abe9b067ab
#19237674 at 2023-07-25 10:44:31 (UTC+1)
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No campaign stands by Gary Johns amid controversy
ROSIE LEWIS - JULY 25, 2023
The No campaign against an Indigenous voice to parliament is standing by Gary Johns despite growing calls for him to resign or be sacked over a series of comments and proposals that include blood tests for Aboriginal welfare recipients and a public holiday celebrating intermarriage between black and white Australians.
Liberals for Yes co-convener Kate Carnell and NSW opposition health spokesman Matt Kean, also a Liberal, said Mr Johns should quit or be forced out of his role as president of leading No organisation Recognise a Better Way because of his "repugnant" views.
It comes as a video emerges of Mr Johns, a former Labor minister in the Keating government, speaking at the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation's Christmas party last year, in which he said: "As I have said at some places in Sydney, looking out over Sydney Harbour, words to the effect of - if this was an invasion, it was a bloody good one.
"Because we have built a wonderful liberal society which would never have been built but for a civilisation arriving here, overtaking people who were our forebears. We all were hunter gatherers but we moved on."
In his 2022 book, The Burden of Culture: How to Dismantle the Aboriginal Industry and Give Hope to its Victims, Mr Johns sets out "16 ways to save lives and overcome Aboriginal colonisation".
They include abolishing all annual Indigenous celebrations, including NAIDOC week, in favour of a single day commemorating the 1967 election; starting an annual event celebrating intermarriage as it is "the most common form of relations between black and white Australia"; and making all benefits and programs that are specific to Indigenous people conditional on a blood test for Indigenous heritage.
Mr Johns defended the comments on Sky News on Monday night and said he had nothing to apologise for, adding he'd prefer not to have a race-based system but if one was in place then blood tests were needed.
Leading No campaigner Warren Mundine said Mr Johns was an important part of the No campaign and he was comfortable with him remaining on the No side, despite disagreeing with some of his views.
"Gary Johns is like any other Australian. He's entitled to his viewpoints and I'm a great believer in free speech. Now me and him, we will have discussions about that and we disagree on different angles of it but there's no way I'm going to be calling for him to step down," Mr Mundine told Sky News.
"Just because people complain about him and that, at least he's honest about his approach to these things and I'm very pleased to have him on our committee and to have him as an adviser to us."
Ms Carnell said the voice referendum was not about these sorts of things.
"We do think that the leaders of the No campaign should really publicly say to Mr Johns that this is simply unacceptable and possibly he should resign as a board member of the No campaign," she told Sky News.
In an earlier statement, Ms Carnell said: "The statements made by Mr Gary Johns last night calling for all recipients of Indigenous benefits to be blood tested, and for the introduction of a national public holiday celebrating intermarriage between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, are deeply disturbing comments that should have no place in Australian political debate.
"There should be no room in this important debate for statements that evoke deeply discredited and racially discriminatory policies and practices that have been left in the dustbin of history."
Mr Kean and NSW opposition multiculturalism spokesman Matt Coure said Mr Johns' remarks, including a 2007 comment that Aboriginal people would "find acceptable a period in jail as a respite from a distraught life", had no place in the national conversation.
"His views are repugnant to everything this country stands for - fairness, decency, and respect for our fellow Australians. If Mr Johns refuses to resign from the board of the official No campaign today, the No campaign should do the decent and honourable thing and fire him," they said.
Victorian Labor senator Jana Stewart, a Mutthi Mutthi and Wamba Wamba woman, has also called on the No campaign to explain whether it thinks Mr Johns' views "are acceptable and, if not, why does he remain on their campaign committee."
The Australian revealed last week that Mr Johns said in June that most Aboriginal people were "grateful for that gift" of modernisation and defended the work of churches and their involvement with the Stolen Generations, in comments made while campaigning against the voice.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/there-are-increasing-calls-for-gary-johns-to-resign-from-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-no-campaign/news-story/2a75ae4f0fcbf29dd3658aaf88a5b355
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR4RtocpFbs
#19231816 at 2023-07-24 11:12:31 (UTC+1)
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Mr Albanese has conceded the Yes case needs to be made stronger and public support for the voice has been slipping, sparking debate over what supporters can do to win back lost ground.
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson, who like Professor Calma and Mr Gordon is a member of the Albanese government's referendum working group, said Liberal pollster and Yes23 director Mark Textor had advised him up to 40 per cent of the population were not yet engaged in the referendum.
"We've got three months to engage them," Mr Pearson told Sky News, backing Mr Albanese's five-to-six-week referendum campaign.
Businesswoman Lucy Turnbull asked Yes supporters over the weekend how keen they were for the referendum to go ahead "if it is likely going to be lost, possibly by a big margin".
"I am very troubled and torn about it," she said.
Empowered Communities responded: "Indigenous people have made an offer and proposal for the way forward. It's been a long time coming.
"The Australian people must now respond. We think the Australian people will take the hand of friendship and love outstretched."
Both Professor Calma and Mr Gordon believed the referendum would succeed.
Leading No campaigner Warren Mundine said Mr Albanese should cancel the referendum and hand taxpayers' money spent on the poll to Aboriginal communities that needed help.
"All these corporate sports bodies and everyone else should do the same thing with all the millions of dollars that they have put into this," Mr Mundine said.
"It's a total waste of money. They (the government) should be putting it into communities to help those people who are in need and stop wasting taxpayers' money."
An alliance of young Indigenous voice supporters on Sunday described the referendum as "a once-in-many-lifetimes opportunity", and asked fellow Australians to "seize the opportunity with us".
The 28 Indigenous campaigners spent the weekend in Brisbane planning the work they will do in every state and territory in the months before the referendum, issuing a declaration of their intent to work towards a successful poll.
Aged 18 to 35, the young Indigenous men and women from Western Australia, Queensland, Victoria and NSW are Uluru Youth Dialogue ambassadors, working under the leadership and guidance of the Uluru Dialogue campaign since 2019.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/indigenous-voice-to-parliament-supporters-say-anthony-albanese-shouldnt-delay-referendum/news-story/497358d2b83539d3e0b64ede619902a9
#19222761 at 2023-07-22 16:47:03 (UTC+1)
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A spokeswoman for the prime minister pointed to his refrain of "if not now, when" regarding the timing of the referendum.
Bragg's fellow NSW Liberal MP and Yes supporter, Julian Leeser, said he did not support delaying the vote and argued that while people had doubts, the rise in the number of undecided voters showed there was still a chance to win people over.
"I think there is a lot on the minds of Australians at the moment and they just haven't focused. Once the cases [for Yes and No] arrive in letterboxes, once the date has been set, that's when people start to focus," he said.
"It's a good change, a safe change and it will make a difference for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people."
But one of the No campaign leaders, Nyunggai Warren Mundine, said the Yes campaign had treated Australians like mugs and insulted them by suggesting a vote for No was racist.
"I always thought this would be like the republic referendum. It will lose every state and the national vote. It will be a complete loss for the Yes campaign," he said.
Support for the Voice held steady at 63 per cent among Labor voters - the same figure as June but down from 75 per cent in April - and at 26 per cent among Coalition voters. It increased by 2 percentage points among Greens voters to 83 per cent, while 72 per cent of "other" voters opposed it.
The Resolve survey found just 31 per cent of voters now believed the referendum would succeed, down from 38 per cent last month. Forty-seven per cent of voters expected the No campaign to win, up from 30 per cent, while 22 per cent were unsure, down from 32 per cent a month ago.
Voters did not welcome big business support for the Voice campaign - something Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has criticised - with just 29 per cent agreeing that corporate involvement was appropriate and 44 per cent saying it was not.
And following a recent call from Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney for the Voice to focus on health, education, jobs and housing, the poll found 33 per cent of voters believed improved healthcare should be its priority, 32 per cent of people nominated improved services in remote communities, 30 per cent chose tackling crime, and 26 per cent said education services. People were able to choose up to four priorities.
About a third of voters, at 32 per cent, said the Voice should be able to provide advice on issues that affected only Indigenous Australians, 29 per cent backed the body providing advice on issues that mainly affected Indigenous Australians, and 18 per cent favoured it giving advice on any issues, with the rest undecided.
While the national figures reported here come from a survey of 1610 voters conducted from July 12 to 15, the state-by-state results are drawn from two surveys in June and July to gain a higher sample size. The questions were identical in the two surveys and the national results have a margin of error 2.4 per cent.
The state figures are based on questions to 3216 voters, including 1012 in NSW and 1003 in Victoria, along with smaller groups in smaller states.
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/nsw-slip-into-no-camp-puts-voice-on-track-for-defeat-20230720-p5dpxs.html
#19217230 at 2023-07-21 15:51:52 (UTC+1)
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In his outburst Craven even took the opportunity to have a shot at me because of my previous collaboration with an organisation called Uphold & Recognise, which now supports the voice, saying, somewhat accusingly, that I have an "interesting history" on this topic and suggesting I've changed my position.
It's no secret I published an essay six years ago for Uphold & Recognise, written before the Uluru Statement, advocating for a model of recognition that supports traditional owner groups having a say on their own languages, cultures, heritage, land and sea. And that's a key reason I don't support the voice. Because a national, representative Indigenous body will undermine traditional owner rights to speak for their own countries. Craven may have read my essay but clearly doesn't understand it. In any event, I don't see how it's relevant to his unretracted and damning criticism of the proposal in March.
Craven claims in The Australian the Yes pamphlet is "so sincere and reasoned you want to slap it". I needed to slap myself after reading the Yes campaign's story of a magical wand called the voice that will miraculously cure all the problems. It also features one of the great myths of the campaign, that 80 per cent of Indigenous people support the voice. This claim is based on two polls of only 300 and 738 people.
The ABC has sent journalists to remote communities with larger populations than these survey pools to find almost everyone had never heard of the voice or didn't understand what it was. And research for a pro-voice organisation, Passing the Message Stick, found 45 per cent of Indigenous people had never heard of it or didn't understand it and 25 per cent of Indigenous people intend to vote No.
Craven's defence of himself paints the now typical picture that the Yes campaign is on the side of the angels and the No campaign is "nasty" and "vicious". I'm a bit sick of this kind of hypocrisy. Yes campaigners have hurled some of the most egregious abuse at Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and myself, including Noel Pearson, who accused us both of being "glove puppets" for white people, a comment I regard as a disgraceful piece of racial abuse.
If the Yes pamphlet was being sincere it would tell people the truth: neither symbolic recognition nor a great big new bureaucracy, as outlined in the Calma/Langton report, are capable of solving the problems facing many Aboriginal people. Only economic participation can do this: kids in school, adults in jobs, people able to create businesses and own their own homes. That isn't achieved with a magic wand. It's achievable only through hard graft and political courage.
The fact is that advocates for the voice have provided some of the most compelling reasons to vote No. In a few months, Australians will be asked to vote for exactly the same "con job" Craven warned us about in March. It would have been remiss of the parliamentarians who prepared the No pamphlet not to quote him.
Nyunggai Warren Mundine is Indigenous Forum director at the Centre for Independent Studies.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/yes-supporters-to-the-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-have-raised-some-of-the-best-reasons-to-vote-no/news-story/9f1e7e612f51db592e284594cb0fb65f
#19217224 at 2023-07-21 15:51:06 (UTC+1)
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>>19199716
>>19199725
Yes supporters of the Indigenous voice to parliament have raised some of the best reasons to vote No
NYUNGGAI Warren Mundine - JULY 21, 2023
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Official Yes and No campaign pamphlets for the referendum have been released. Yes campaigners are upset the No pamphlet quotes extensively from the voice's supporters.
Greg Craven had the most explosive reaction, saying he was beside himself with rage that the No pamphlet included this statement he made about the proposed constitutional amendment in an interview with 2GB: "I think it's fatally flawed because what it does is retain the full range of review of executive action. This means the voice can comment on everything from submarines to parking tickets ... We will have regular judicial interventions."
Craven accuses the No pamphlet writers of quoting him out of context. The context was the release of the constitutional amendment wording. The additional context is that he also said the voice had gone "off track" and that: "Over the past year, it's really ... been colonised by left-leaning ideologues from among the Indigenous community, trying to turn it from a model that was not run by the judges, to a model that absolutely guarantees judicial intervention."
And: "The reality is that you really will have a situation where any person who wants to create difficulty for a government, tear its decisions down, will end up going to the High Court, either to say that the process hasn't been properly followed or there's some legal flaw ... it will be very, very difficult for government to operate either because it will be constantly delayed, tied up in knots, or indeed because the courts end up intervening directly in the decision. It will be very hard for government to operate."
For even more context, people can find Craven expressing the same views on the ABC and in The Australian. This week he says he was concerned about a "niggling drafting issue". In March he said the amendment wording was a "ruthless con job". The wording hasn't changed. Craven declined to retract his views when given an opportunity this week on Sky News. In fact, he conceded the voice would have "great width" on what it could comment on, and the parliament would have to pass "very, very careful legislation to make sure the voice does not exceed its own position".
But that's impossible because the voice will have a constitutional right to make representations on any matter relating to Indigenous peoples. That's everything.
Yes campaigners like to claim the voice's remit will be limited to matters specific to Indigenous people or which affect Indigenous people differently because these two limbs were highlighted very, very carefully in bullet points in the Second Reading speech. But those words came after the word "include". There's no limitation.
Craven also claims the No pamphlet included his quote "without any acknowledgment" that he's a supporter and campaigner for the voice. But the No pamphlet clearly and prominently states he "supports the voice". Perhaps Craven overlooked those words like voice supporters overlook the word "include" in the Second Reading speech.
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#19199734 at 2023-07-18 10:24:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #31: MAGIC SWORD - IN THE FACE OF EVIL Edition
>>19199716
Indigenous people thriving without voice: Mundine
ELLIE DUDLEY - 18 July 2023
No campaign leader Warren Mundine says the world "wouldn't give a bugger" if the Indigenous voice was shot down at the referendum, arguing Australia is already taking great steps to improve the lives of Aboriginal people.
Mr Mundine, speaking as the official pamphlets for both the Yes and No campaigns were released publicly, predicted Yes support would continue to spiral due to underwhelming support and skepticism from Australians.
Asked what he thought of Labor frontbencher Stephen Jones' comments that the country wouldn't be able to hold its head up if the No case prevailed, Mr Mundine said the world "wouldn't give a bugger" if the referendum failed.
"There is a lot of evidence out there as one of the greatest multicultural countries in the world," he told Sky News. "We are doing great things in this country."
Support for the voice has dwindled from 80 per cent in August last year to 41 per cent this week, Mr Mundine said.
"People in regional Australia know the population of their town, they know what the vibe is," he said.
"25 per cent of Aboriginal people are going to vote not, 45 per cent haven't even heard of it and don't know what it is. That's 70 per cent right there."
Mr Mundine said he had received positive responses whilst doorknocking, claiming the Yes campaign has got "real problems" at the moment.
He said he had read the Yes campaign's pamphlet, and said it was "very nice."
"It's like they're saying we've got a magic wand to fix everything," he said.
Mr Mundine urged Australians to vote no, saying he did not trust the Labor government following their decision to lift alcohol bans in Indigenous communities.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politicsnow-yes-and-no-camps-voice-their-reasons/live-coverage/513d2c6c3f8a290e0d0d91c19e756632#108228
#19199728 at 2023-07-18 10:18:20 (UTC+1)
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>>19199725
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Opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, who was the authorised chair of the No case put in the pamphlet, said Professor Craven had some very pertinent concerns early in the conversation about the voice.
"It's only right that we should be able to promote those concerns that somebody on the Yes side has with this constitutional change," she said.
"Contrary to claims being made, the No case does make a point of stating that Professor Craven is a supporter of the voice. I don't understand why anybody that has such concerns would want to support the Yes campaign going forward."
Queensland Liberal senator Paul Scarr, who was deputy chair of the No case, said Professor Craven did not deserve an apology because there had been full disclosure of his support for the voice.
"One of the reasons for voting No in relation to this referendum is that this proposed voice will have no limit on the scope of what it can engage in. That is the point which Professor Greg Craven alluded to in the point which he is quoted on," Senator Scarr told Sky News.
"It's absolutely vital that the Australian people understand the ramifications of this proposed change to the Constitution. And one of those changes is that this voice would be able to make representations and engage on any issues at both a parliamentary level but also an executive government level."
Prominent No campaigner Warren Mundine said Professor Craven could not deny he said the quote and should move on.
"You live and die by what you say," Mr Mundine said.
"We're trying to have a normal, non-vitriolic debate. He comes out with that nonsense. He just needs to calm down and move on because what was put there was factual. He said it. He's just spewing because he got caught out."
Professor Craven said the No side had adopted a high-risk strategy.
"What it means is you've got one of your main pieces of evidence loudly saying 'no, no, no, that's not true'. I would've thought that would be problematic to the No case, just as I think it would be problematic if people went back and looked through the records of people like Dutton and Mundine and said 'why have you changed your position? What's happened to make this (the voice) so terrible?'" he said.
The Opposition Leader is on leave, though Coalition sources noted he had no control over the No pamphlet, was not on the committee that helped write the essay and did not put the material together.
The sources said Professor Craven had taken issue with Liberal Party and Coalition promotional material against the voice and he had asked that material specify he was a voice supporter - which the pamphlet does.
The Liberal Party material was updated on Tuesday when a new website was launched.
Mr Mundine said he accepted he was involved in Uphold and Recognise but then he discovered the voice would be a "big bureaucracy and not going to change a single thing on the ground".
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/greg-craven-beside-myself-with-rage-after-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-no-pamphlet-quotes-him/news-story/6d52c11bd5d226648d56166a794fbf44
https://origin.go.theaustralian.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/No-Case-pamphlet.pdf
https://www.aec.gov.au/referendums/pamphlet.htm
#19199725 at 2023-07-18 10:16:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #31: MAGIC SWORD - IN THE FACE OF EVIL Edition
>>19199716
Greg Craven 'beside myself with rage' after Indigenous voice to parliament No pamphlet quotes him
ROSIE LEWIS - JULY 18, 2023
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Conservative constitutional lawyer and prominent Yes campaigner Greg Craven says he's "beside myself with rage" after one of his quotes criticising the government's preferred model for an Indigenous voice to parliament was used in the official No pamphlet.
Professor Craven told The Australian he would now formally lodge a complaint with the Australian Electoral Commission against No material quoting him, after he communicated with Peter Dutton's office before the pamphlet was released expressing his "extreme opposition" to his words being used as part of the No campaign.
"I am beside myself with rage. I've never found myself in worse company," he said of the No pamphlet.
"Putting those words up effectively without any acknowledgment that I've consistently said I'll support and campaign for the voice is simply deceptive.
"It's perfectly obvious to anyone in this debate, including the No case and for that matter the opposition, that I am implacably committed to the voice and I will campaign for it. That's because I've always said that from the beginning and because also since the (constitutional amendment) words in dispute were settled I've gone out of my way to make my position clear."
The No pamphlet states: "In the words of a constitutional law professor who supports the voice: 'I think it's fatally flawed because what it does is retain the full range of review of executive action. This means the voice can comment on everything from submarines to parking tickets ... We will have regular judicial interventions.' (Professor Greg Craven AO)."
The comments were made by Professor Craven in March, as he was arguing the government's proposal should be amended to clarify it would be up to parliament to decide what obligations the executive government has to consider and respond to the voice's representations.
Professor Craven said his only real option now was to campaign even harder for the Yes case, as he did not believe there was any real remedy the AEC could offer.
"Some of the most dedicated No campaigners have their own interesting history of where they stood. Peter Dutton originally said that he would be looking at it carefully and had an open mind. Now apparently it's constitutional illiteracy," Professor Craven said.
"Warren Mundine was one of the chartered signatories to Uphold and Recognise. Apparently those changes of position are fine but the thing I would say is I've never changed my position. I've always been in favour of it."
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#19199717 at 2023-07-18 10:06:24 (UTC+1)
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>>19199716
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The No pamphlet, obtained by The Australian, argues that a constitutionally enshrined voice to parliament and executive government is legally risky, provides no detail on how it would work, would divide Australians, fail to help Indigenous communities, and no issue would be beyond its scope.
It also argues that the voice, being permanent, would cause dysfunction within parliament, open the door to activists and be costly and bureaucratic.
"This referendum is not simply about 'recognition'," it says.
"This voice proposal goes much further. If passed, it would represent the biggest change to our Constitution in our history. It is ?legally risky, with unknown consequences. It would be divisive and permanent. It is a leap into the unknown. This voice has not been road tested. There is no comparable constitutional body like this anywhere in the world."
The official No campaign will this week launch as second phase of its advertising campaign aiming to expose divisions among leading Aboriginal figures over the need for a voice to be enshrined in the Constitution. Spearheaded by Nyunggai Warren Mundine, Fair Australia will run a mini documentary nationally across special media platforms and television in which the Indigenous leader claims the voice would not improve people's lives. Called Not My Voice, the campaign is based on Mr Mundine's personal story of growing up in regional Australia and becoming one of Australia's most prominent political and business leaders. "I have never needed a separate voice based on the colour of my skin," Mr Mundine says.
He makes the case that the divisive voice to parliament is a "project of inner-city elite Indigenous activists". "They're the same people who have been on government boards and committees for decades and now they want to be in the Constitution," Mr Mundine says. "They don't speak for me and they don't speak for many other Aboriginals."
Liberals for Yes spokesman ?Julian Leeser, who quit the frontbench over his party's opposition to a constitutionally enshrined voice, rejected arguments put by Mr Mundine and his colleagues that the voice would mark "the end of democracy, (with) more power going to so-called elites, the end of parliamentary sovereignty, with increased costs resulting from a dangerous, permanent change".
"This is a change that is safe, and a change that is about practical outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians," Mr Leeser said in a Yes campaign speech in Wagga Wagga.
"The voice will advise government - just like DFAT, the Productivity Commission, the security agencies and the Chief Scientist and the Chief Medical Officer do every day. It will be up to the government to weigh that advice. As they do now."
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/speaking-out-opposing-camps-state-their-reasons-for-and-against-an-indigenous-voice-to-parliament/news-story/e73c3cc7eee2d90a249423d3452d09f7
https://origin.go.theaustralian.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Yes-Case-pamphlet.pdf
https://www.aec.gov.au/referendums/pamphlet.htm
#19194492 at 2023-07-17 10:19:21 (UTC+1)
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>>19194398
Tony Abbott accuses companies supporting The Voice of 'shareholder abuse'
Former prime minister Tony Abbott has accused "woke companies" of "shareholder abuse" by publicly supporting the referendum.
Jessica Wang - July 17, 2023
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Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has accused major companies who are supporting an Indigenous Voice to parliament of "shareholder abuse".
Speaking to 2GB's weekend host Michael McLaren, the anti-Voice spokesman went as far to accuse public companies of attempting to "curry favour" with the government.
While he didn't name anyone specifically, he unleashed a tirade against "woke foundations and woke billionaires pouring in their virtue signalling money".
"I think that if money can buy a referendum, this referendum will be bought for the Yes case," he said on Sunday.
"A lot of businesses, they work a lot with government, (and) a lot of these big sporting groups need government grants, and I think they're both virtue signalling and currying favour.
"I don't have any shares in public companies but frankly, if I did ... I would sell them because it's shareholder abuse."
The former politician added there was "absolutely no doubt that the new left establishment is massively behind this Voice for all sorts of reasons."
His rant comes as some of Australia's largest companies, including CBA, Qantas, Rio Tinto, and BHP, have publicly backed the Yes vote, which aims to enshrine and Indigenous Voice in the Australian constitution.
In June, it was revealed Wesfarmers, BHP and Rio Tinto donated $2m each to the Yes23 campaign.
In March, Nine Newspapers reported Australian billionaire and Visy executive Anthony Pratt donated $1m to the Yes campaign.
31 of Australia's leading philanthropic foundations have also pledged $17m to the yes campaign in April, including the Australian Communities Foundation, the Besen Family Foundation, and Mecca founder Jo Horgan's MECCA M-Power.
In the No camp, Australian Electoral Commission third party return documents revealed Advance Australia, of which Mr Abbott is an adviser for, received $507,500 in donations in the 2021-22 tax year.
This includes $75,000 over three donations from Louis Denton, who is the chief operating officer of Devcos International, which works with health and beauty brands on packaging, and logistics.
The group also received $50,000 from the Silver River Investment Holdings, owned by former fund manager Simon Fenwick and Elizabeth Fenwick. The holding company also donated $650,000 to Advance Australia in the 2020-21 financial year.
Fair Australia, led by Liberal Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Indigenous businessman Warren Mundine, is another prominent anti-Voice campaign, with supporters able to make tax deductible donations through their website.
Previously Mr Mundine has said donors are less likely to publicly disclose their support.
"One of the main reasons we don't talk about our donors is because of threats. Investors in my business have been threatened over my position," he told The Australian in May.
"We will comply with all the laws on disclosure but it will come out after the referendum."
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#18422532 at 2023-02-28 05:39:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #27: THEY ARE IN FULL BLOWN PANIC MODE Edition
#27 - Part 14
Australian Politics and Society - Part 14
>>18324696 Alcohol restricted in Laverton, Western Australia as Aboriginal elder Janice Scott says pub has become 'sacred site' - "That pub over there ... all the sickness and everything happens because of it. It's standing there in all its glory, their sacred site ... killing generation after generation."
>>18324757 Video: Senators Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Malarndirri McCarthy share truths of alcohol abuse amid Alice Springs crisis - In the chambers of Australia's federal parliament, personal secrets are often buried far from the curious public eye - But occasionally they are laid out on the carpeted floor, raw in their fury and heartbreak - Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, an Alice Springs local, rose to deliver an impassioned tale of trauma centred around the early death of her cousin in the town's palliative care unit late last year - Assistant Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy, a former television journalist, recounted her own stories of immeasurable grief caused by alcohol in NT communities
>>18324787 Sovereignty at the heart of the Voice - "Lidia Thorpe is the worst nightmare for the Yes proponents. Her departure blows a hole the size of Uluru right through claims from Yes advocates that the voice is a modest matter of polite manners. Her ?departure encourages us to dig deeper and, in so doing, better understand that black sovereignty sits at the heart of the voice proposal. This is not about reconciliation. This is separatism, pure and simple, and to be writ large in law." - Janet Albrechtsen - theaustralian.com.au
>>18324863 Federal government seeks to suppress court documents examining torture-resistance program - The federal government is urgently seeking to suppress court documents examining a torture-resistance training program that a former soldier claims breached his human rights - Medically retired soldier Damien De Pyle is suing the Commonwealth after claiming last year that he was forced to participate in humiliating sexual acts as part of the program
>>18330596 Legal implications over Indigenous voice to parliament should give us the chills - As currently proposed, the voice will amount to a new group right in the Constitution. It will be exercised collectively and exclusively by Indigenous people - By boldly entrenching a new group right, we are set to find ourselves with a novel and unprecedented advisory fourth arm of government. Of course, some people will be comfortable with that, and that is fine. But many Australians would be surprised to hear this characterisation - Louise Clegg, Sydney barrister - theaustralian.com.au
>>18330608 Jews at odds over Yes or No on Indigenous voice - The Indigenous voice to parliament debate has split Australia's Jewish community, with prominent representative associations at odds over the referendum - The Anti-Defamation Commission is "unequivocally committed" to supporting the voice, just months after recognised community leadership body the Executive Council of Australian Jewry signed a bipartisan action with several other religious organisations supporting the Uluru Statement from the Heart - The Australian Jewish Association, however, condemned the actions of other Jewish bodies for supporting a Yes vote, saying it had "major concerns" on potentially "racist" amendments to the Constitution
>>18338023 Jacinta Nampijinpa Price jumps ship for new No drive against the voice = Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has quit the national 'Recognise a Better Way' committe eshe launched with Warren Mundine just weeks ago to oppose the Indigenous voice to parliament, and will head a new grassroots No campaign funded by right-wing activist group Advance
>>18338036 Video: Peter Dutton apologises for boycotting apology to Stolen Generations - Liberal leader Peter Dutton has apologised for boycotting the National Apology to the Stolen Generations in 2008 - Mr Dutton, who was the only Opposition frontbencher to abstain from the apology, says he was wrong for not supporting it. "I failed to grasp at the time the symbolic significance to the Stolen Generation of the apology," Mr Dutton said. "It was right for Prime Minister [Kevin] Rudd to make the apology in 2008."
>>18338062 Right-wing terror threat has receded as COVID restrictions have eased, ASIO chief Mike Burgess says - The head of Australia's domestic spy agency says the threat of a terrorist attack by nationalist extremists or conspiracy theorists has receded since governments abandoned lockdowns and other strict COVID-19 control measures
#18422518 at 2023-02-28 05:35:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #27: THEY ARE IN FULL BLOWN PANIC MODE Edition
#27 - Part 10
Australian Politics and Society - Part 10
>>18252301 Triple-0 surge in Northern Territory after strict alcohol ban lifted - Northern Territory ambulances have attended to nearly double the number of assaults and sexual attacks since strict alcohol bans lapsed late last year, as Alice Springs residents braced for chaos amid a new sweep of grog restrictions
>>18258283 Anthony Albanese under fire for spending more time at Australian Open than in Alice Springs - Anthony Albanese has been slammed for spending more time enjoying an ice cream and sipping a beer than fixing a massive crisis
>>18258294 "Get out of the bloody corporate boxes": Warren Mundine slams PM for time at Aus Open - Indigenous leader Warren Mundine has slammed Anthony Albanese's lengthy visit to the Aus Open, likening it to a former PM's notorious Hawaii trip
>>18258333 Yes and no Voice campaigns battle it out for the migrant vote - Migrants will be told to vote 'yes' for an Indigenous Voice at religious services, in ethnic newspapers and through non-English radio stations, while No campaigners will tell migrants to reject the notion that Australia is a racist nation
>>18258409 Australia's nuclear safety agency joins the hunt for a tiny radioactive capsule missing somewhere in the outback, sending a team with specialised car-mounted and portable detection equipment
>>18258434 The gunpowder pact: Australia, France cast aside past for unity on Ukraine - Both governments are keen to stress they've moved on from the row that saw Australia abandon diesel-powered French submarines in favour of nuclear-powered ones from the United States and Britain
>>18263747 Albanese prepared to take 'immediate action' to curb Alice Springs violence - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pledged to respond as soon as possible to the alcohol-fuelled social emergency in Alice Springs, as he awaits the findings of a snap report that will consider whether liquor bans should be reimposed on Indigenous communities
>>18263756 Mayors of Darwin, Katherine call for NT-wide alcohol restrictions amid concerns about crime - The mayors of two major Northern Territory towns say they want alcohol restrictions similar to Alice Springs rolled out across the jurisdiction, warning people who need alcohol will shift to other areas to access it
>>18263855 Australia aims for bigger fines a week into Outback hunt for radioactive capsule - Authorities in Australia aim to toughen up laws on the mishandling of radioactive material as a search for a hazardous capsule that a mining company lost in the Outback enters a seventh day
>>18263862 Missing radioactive capsule found in Western Australia - Australian authorities have found a radioactive capsule that was lost in the vast Outback after nearly a week-long search along a 1,400 km (870-mile) stretch of highway
>>18268946 Alice Springs residents weigh $1.5 billion class action bid against NT government in 'tense' crime meeting - Thousands of Alice Springs residents have gathered to share grief and anger over years of high property crime rates, with many voicing support for a class action against the Northern Territory government
>>18268961 Video: Deep divisions in Alice Springs over how to tackle crime wave - A town meeting in Alice Springs has ended in ugly scenes laying bare the deep-rooted problems and divisions on how to tackle ongoing violence in the community - ABC News (Australia)
>>18268978 Alice Springs mayor Matt Paterson demands Ita Buttrose retract 'white supremacy' stories - The mayor of Alice Springs has demanded ABC chair Ita Buttrose retract multiple stories on the public broadcaster that claimed the town's community forum on Monday was beset by sentiments of "white supremacy"
>>18269047 Bruce Lehrmann lodges formal complaint of professional misconduct against ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold SC, alleging Mr Drumgold failed to ensure a fair trial over the Brittany Higgins rape allegations and that his conduct was driven by malice and "political interests"
>>18269076 Richard Marles, Penny Wong visit Australian troops training Ukrainian recruits in fight against Russia - Australian soldiers are running intensive combat courses for Ukrainian recruits at a military base in southern England, pushing them through an accelerated program in basic infantry training that will prepare them for the frontline back home
>>18269171 White House optimistic on tech sharing for Aukus security pact - Top US official sees 'pathway' for allies to build nuclear-powered submarines for Australia - The White House has expressed optimism that the US, UK and Australia will clear the main obstacle to their landmark security deal, allowing technology transfers that will enable Canberra to obtain nuclear-powered submarines
#18402251 at 2023-02-24 10:43:04 (UTC+1)
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Parkin was unconcerned about Resolve polling on Thursday that showed that more than 60 per cent of the electorate wanted more information about the Voice.
"There's a long way until the referendum will be held ... so there's a long time between now and then to get that information out there. You've also got to understand that out in the community, people are approaching this issue much more simply, and from a place of deep goodwill. They want to actually be engaged in the conversation," he said before the launch.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who was also in Adelaide but did not attend the launch - billed as a politician-free affair, accused Dutton of deliberately trying to confuse Australians.
"The Liberal Party are showing, at least Peter Dutton is showing, that he wants to create as much confusion and is doing nothing that would indicate that his starting point is, 'OK, how do we work on this together?', 'how do we get this done together?' - that's my approach," Albanese said on Thursday.
The $5 million funding injection is the largest donation the Yes campaign has received since Australians for Indigenous Constitutional Recognition was granted tax deductibility status early this month. Organisers said it also eclipsed any single donation received by the former From the Heart campaign vehicle, which relied on corporate sponsorship and grassroots donations, and has now been rolled into the Yes alliance.
The Paul Ramsay Foundation, Australia's biggest charity following a $3.5 billion bequest from businessman Paul Ramsay after his death in 2014, said it was proud to support the Yes campaign.
"We understand that the best outcomes emerge when the voices of those affected are heard, so we believe that enshrining an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice is vital for stronger communities, and for a stronger nation," foundation chief executive Kristy Muir said.
The decision by the Albanese government not to publicly fund the Yes and No cases means the competing campaigns are in a funding race, with the $5 million injection to the pro-Voice group outstripping a $1 million donation reportedly received by conservative lobby group and anti-Voice fundraiser Advance Australia, from an undisclosed benefactor last year.
The No camp, which has splintered into two campaigns run respectively by Indigenous media commentator Warren Mundine and Country Liberal Party senator Nampijinpa Price, has been tight-lipped about funding. However, Mundine has positioned his "Recognise a Better Way" campaign as an underdog in the fund-raising stakes, saying it would be relying upon grassroots donations and support from business people rather than large corporate sponsorship.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/it-s-time-for-a-voice-5m-donation-underwrites-yes-campaign-20230223-p5cn2n.html
#18338023 at 2023-02-13 08:33:20 (UTC+1)
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>>18252267
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price jumps ship for new No drive against the voice
GEOFF CHAMBERS - FEBRUARY 12, 2023
Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has quit the national committee she launched with Warren Mundine just weeks ago to oppose the Indigenous voice to parliament, and will head a new grassroots No campaign funded by right-wing activist group Advance.
The high-profile defection comes a fortnight after Senator Price, former Labor minister Gary Johns and Mr Mundine unveiled a six-member Recognise a Better Way committee, endorsed by former deputy prime minister John Anderson and prominent Indigenous leaders.
Senator Price on Monday will officially launch the Fair Australia campaign, backed by a $1.45m war chest and 77,000 members recruited by Advance.
The Alice Springs local, who led the push inside the Nationals to formally oppose the referendum to enshrine a constitutional voice to parliament, will use Advance's resources to take on Dean Parkin's cashed-up Yes campaign.
After resigning from the Recognise a Better Way campaign on Sunday, Senator Price said the two campaigns would work side-by-side to achieve a "resounding No vote".
"I am deeply respectful of the national committee members themselves and the work they are undertaking, however I do firmly believe that my efforts are best directed towards the grassroots campaign focus of the Fair Australia campaign as opposed to the thought leadership and policy focus of Recognise a Better Way," she said. "We are all committed to achieving a resounding No vote and in doing so a positive result for Australians."
As the Yes and No campaigns finalise their teams and prepare major fundraising drives ahead of the referendum, expected in September or October, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will resume sparring over the voice when parliament and Senate estimates return. The government on Monday will release its second "closing the gap" implementation plan, coinciding with the 15th anniversary of Kevin Rudd's historic apology to the Stolen Generation.
The Australian understands that Mr Dutton, ahead of the government's referendum machinery legislation being voted on in the parliament in March, had planned to finalise the Liberal Party's position on the voice over the next month.
Senior Coalition sources on Sunday said that with the Aston by-election expected to be fought on rising mortgages and the cost-of-living, Mr Dutton could delay a final decision on the voice until closer to the May 9 budget.
Advance executive director Matthew Sheahan said the activist group was preparing to mount a "comprehensive national campaign to reach the critical undecided voters that will decide the result".
Mr Johns said every Australian including Senator Price "should play the best role for them in the campaign".
"We will continue to lead the policy debate this country needs ahead of the referendum and look forward to working collaboratively with the Fair Australia grassroots campaign moving forward," he said.
While Senator Price's campaign will target grassroots communities and undecided voters, the national committee is focusing on proposing a preamble to the Constitution and a new parliamentary committee looking at the rights of native title holders under existing legislation.
Advance has also joined forces with right-wing New Zealand activist group Hobson's Pledge, whose trustee Casey Costello will meet with federal MPs in Canberra this week to "warn Australians against entrenching racial division in their constitution".
Ms Costello advocates that the misinterpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi had "weakened NZ democracy by supplanting the popularly elected government on issues of national importance".
"Hiding behind the virtuous intentions of better outcomes, successive governments have undermined NZ's democracy by allocating political capital to an unaccountable and self-appointed body," she said.
"The people of NZ don't get the last say. We've seen racial division at the very heart of political decision making in NZ, with extra powers granted to just one group. From what I've seen of the voice, Australia is in for the same mess."
Greens leader Adam Bandt on Monday will unveil Indigenous WA senator Dorinda Cox as the party's new First Nations spokeswoman, replacing Lidia Thorpe who quit the Greens last week.
"My work ... will be grounded in our cultural knowledges, practices and protocols as I reach across the aisles of parliament to bring everyone on this journey towards truth telling, treaty and voice," she said.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/jacinta-nampijinpa-price-jumps-ship-for-new-no-drive-against-the-voice/news-story/ee4621e35507d02be7ad23654bb4f6d1
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A South Australian Education Department spokesperson said teaching students about "important public issues, along with how society and government address these issues", was a specific focus of humanities and social sciences within the curriculum.
"The voice to parliament is an opportunity for students to learn about how society engages with and resolves issues of national significance," the spokesperson said.
However, while they were supportive of the voice being taught in schools, teachers must "ensure students are provided with unbiased and objective information to form their own critical analysis".
Queensland will support open discussion of the voice in schools, and help "teachers to ensure students have the skills and knowledge to become active and informed citizens".
"The Uluru Statement and proposed constitutional recognition of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice in the Australian parliament would be topical for students to explore as part of curriculum-based learning activities," a Queensland Education Department spokesperson said. "The Queensland government, through a motion of parliament, has voiced support for the Uluru Statement and voice to parliament."
The NSW Education Department has taken a more conservative approach, with teachers permitted "the flexibility to teach about current events within their teaching and learning programs". "Critical thinking is embedded across the curriculum and students develop the skills to analyse arguments relating to current events," a NSW Education Standards Authority spokesperson said.
Federal Education Minister Jason Clare said it was up to states and territories to implement their curriculum. "Separate to this, the government will provide public information ... about referendum processes and constitutional change," a spokesperson said.
Leading advocates for the No campaign have accused teachers of "indoctrinating" students to support the Yes case.
Students at Shearwater Mullumbimby Steiner School on the NSW north coast are able to recite the Uluru Statement by heart, having learnt it during year 5 history studies, principal James Goodlet said. "Yes, we are supportive of the voice and the Uluru Statement from the Heart," he said. "Support for listening to First Nations people, truth-telling and truth-seeking regarding First Nat?ions history, First Nations representation and constitutional recognition are important to us."
Videos from ABC journalist Stan Grant have been used as educational tools for St Andrews Cathedral School students in Sydney, and teachers discussed the voice with their students when the ?Albanese government was elected.
"In all of our subjects, the issue was addressed through multiple perspectives, though the students in general came to our discussion in favour of the voice," said SACS head of humanities Michael Neate.
The school also welcomed Thomas Mayor, voice advocate and author of Finding the Heart of the Nation, to speak with Indigenous students in years K-6. A spokeswoman told The Australian Indigenous voice to parliament design group co-chair Marcia Langton would be invited to speak this year.
St Mary's Cathedral College also invited Mr Mayor to speak.
"Mayor's insights were used to frame NAIDOC week activities," principal Kerrie McDiarmid said. "Staff engaged students with an understanding of why the voice is important and the history that led us to this point. Significant to 2023 is the appointment of the college's first Indigenous Student Leader, who will continue the conversation and awareness as a significant voice at the college."
A leader of the No campaign, Warren Mundine, told The Australian he "didn't believe" schools would facilitate fair discussion on the topic.
"It's total propaganda. When I went to school, if you spoke about political issues and propaganda, you lost your job. These kids are only getting one side of the story and, frankly, it's time for heads to roll.
"People have told me ... their kids are coming home totally indoctrinated by it. If you're going to teach students about the voice, you have to have representation from both sides. It's that, or don't talk about it."
Catholic Schools NSW said teachers should aim to support students to develop their worldviews, not prescribe personal opinions.
"One of our goals in Catholic education is to support students to grow in wisdom and the development of a worldview informed by their faith," CEO Dallas McInerney said.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/no-advocates-accuse-schools-of-indoctrinating-students-to-say-yes/news-story/baab3c9eb1d9d0de51fcc7a42370df06
#18268978 at 2023-02-02 07:59:53 (UTC+1)
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Alice Springs mayor Matt Paterson demands Ita Buttrose retract 'white supremacy' stories
SOPHIE ELSWORTH - FEBRUARY 1, 2023
The mayor of Alice Springs has demanded ABC chair Ita Buttrose retract multiple stories on the public broadcaster that claimed the town's community forum on Monday was beset by sentiments of "white supremacy".
Matt Paterson said the reports that aired nationally on the ABC following Monday's meeting at the Alice Springs Convention Centre were a complete misrepresentation of what took place and "it could not be further from the truth".
"Ita Buttrose should retract the stories and issue a public statement of apology to the community of Alice Springs," he told The Australian.
"I was in the meeting and I'm not a white supremacist".
He said he would give the ABC 24 hours to do so or he would be filing a formal complaint with the organisation.
The ABC aired several reports, including a live cross to its Indigenous affairs correspondent outside the Alice Springs Convention Centre, during which she stated: "People were leaving early and streaming out of that Convention Centre in Alice Springs, we spoke to some who were quite emotional.
"One resident who was non-indigenous said the meeting was, quote, 'a disgusting display of white supremacy'."
Mr Paterson said the community was "already full of anxiety" and this story was only "adding fuel to the fire".
"This story is not correct and now has national media attention and it's why the Alice Springs community loses faith with the rest of the country, because of these stories that portray as all as racists and it's absolutely not the case," he said.
The suggestion that the forum was a "white supremacist fest" were also refuted by Country Liberal Party MP Josh Burgoyne who was born and raised in Alice Springs.
He told Sky News Australia host Andrew Bolt on Tuesday night the public broadcaster's reports were "extraordinarily disappointing".
"I was at the meeting yesterday afternoon, what I witnessed was actually a coming together of the community," Mr Burgoyne said on Sky News on Tuesday night.
"It showed that people in Alice Springs had had enough."
Sydney's 2GB breakfast radio host also Ben Fordham also took aim at the ABC's coverage on Wednesday morning.
Fordham referenced some of the comments that he said the ABC had "cherrypicked" from people outside the meeting, and accused the broadcaster of only covering one side of the story.
"'Scary', 'a white supremacist fest' ... we didn't hear from the terrified locals or the worried mums and dads, we only heard claims of racism from a woman who walked out, someone who did not represent the real mood in the room," he said.
"And there were no examples given of the so-called 'white supremacy'."
Issues discussed at the meeting included the rising crime rates in the town and whether class action should be taken against the Northern Territory government for its failure to address the problem.
Indigenous leader Warren Mundine said on Sky News Australia the ABC's reporting was "disgraceful".
"They ... just spoke to a small handful of people and they made out there's sort of like some Ku Klux Klan meeting going inside which could be no further from the truth," he said.
"These are decent Australian citizens black and white who were there to resolve a whole lot of issues happening in that community."
However the ABC defended its reporting of the community event.
"The ABC's long-running reporting on the issues facing Alice Springs has included a range of perspectives and will continue to canvass people's views and experiences as coverage continues," a spokeswoman said.
"Many strong and conflicting views and opinions are expressed within the community, including some confronting views and the news coverage reflects that and doesn't shy away from it."
Despite being heavily critical of some of the ABC's reporting, both Mr Paterson and Mr Burgoyne commended the public broadcaster's local reporters who are stationed permanently in the area.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/alice-springs-mayor-matt-paterson-demands-ita-buttrose-retract-white-supremacy-stories/news-story/a6b2eeb79c2b13ab565321d5179d4db2
#18258333 at 2023-01-31 08:03:34 (UTC+1)
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Yes and no Voice campaigns battle it out for the migrant vote
Paul Sakkal - January 30, 2023
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Migrants will be told to vote 'yes' for an Indigenous Voice at religious services, in ethnic newspapers and through non-English radio stations, while No campaigners will tell migrants to reject the notion that Australia is a racist nation.
The No campaign's Indigenous leader, Warren Mundine, told this masthead ethnic communities would be receptive to the argument that the Voice was an elitist project that talked down the country, as he argues that migrants should also be recognised in the constitution.
Signalling a divisive fight to win the votes of new Australians, ethnic community leader Carlo Carli suggested Mundine's pitch was a red herring designed to pit immigrants against Indigenous Australians.
Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia (FECCA), tied to many hundreds of local community groups, has planned a major Voice drive alongside a key referendum group led by Uluru Statement co-author Megan Davis to mobilise thousands of migrant leaders to spruik the Voice through trusted local channels.
"Our reach in terms of different language groups is pretty phenomenal," the federation's chair, Carli, told this masthead.
Carli explained that about 800 migrant leaders attended FECCA's conference last year, at which a physical copy of the Uluru Statement from the Heart - a landmark Indigenous community consensus position that called for a Voice - was on display. It attracted queues of migrant leaders who wanted to be photographed alongside it, he said.
"There was no dissent. Everyone was incredibly supportive of the case, particularly newer migrant communities," said Carli, a former Victorian Labor MP. "Many of the groups have come out in favour of the Voice and many more will do so in coming months."
"A lot of our constituents come from communities that have had trauma and been dispossessed, that have sought refuge. They are natural allies to our First Nations people because they've got empathy, and once they get involved in Australian affairs they want to progress things."
Mundine, who has brought together several groups to create the Recognise A Better Way body, supports symbolic constitutional recognition of Indigenous Australians but opposes the Voice advisory body as the vehicle. He has proposed the recognition of First Nations and migrant Australians in the preamble of the constitution, an approach rejected by Indigenous leaders during the Uluru consultation process.
Mundine argued a constitutional recognition that "praised" one group of Australians, being First Nations people, should be accompanied by recognition of migrants.
"I think we need to be respectful to all the people who've come to this country. Some risked their lives to get here from war-torn countries and oppressive regimes, and they work hard and help build this nation. We should praise that," he said.
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#18258294 at 2023-01-31 07:47:51 (UTC+1)
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"Get out of the bloody corporate boxes": Warren Mundine slams PM for time at Aus Open
Indigenous leader Warren Mundine has slammed Anthony Albanese's lengthy visit to the Aus Open, likening it to a former PM's notorious Hawaii trip.
Jade Gailberger and Kieran Rooney - January 31, 2023
Anthony Albanese has been slammed for spending more time "relaxing and chugging beers" at the Australian Open than he did on the ground in Alice Springs.
The Prime Minister visited the crisis-ridden centre for several hours last Tuesday before spending three nights in Melbourne - attending both men's and women's finals, as well as Friday night's semi-final at Melbourne Park.
On Tuesday, NDIS Minister Bill Shorten defended Mr Albanese's attendance at the tennis saying "the guy works seven days a week".
Mr Shorten said the Prime Minister went to Alice Springs "long before" he went to the tennis, and attended a Lunar New Year festival in Box Hill on the Saturday.
"Anthony was working every day," Mr Shorten said.
"On Monday, I know he was also helping launch our national arts policy.
"The guy works seven days a week. A photo of him eating an ice cream is, you know, neither here nor there to me."
Mr Shorten said the big issue in Alice Springs was keeping people safe, adding the federal government was working with the territory government and local communities.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews joined Mr Shorten in backing Anthony Albanese following criticism of the prime minister's appearances at the Australian Open.
When asked about the criticism, Mr Andrews said it was up to others to judge but said the prime minister had a strong work ethic.
"It's a very significant event," he said.
"The prime minister travels right throughout the country and works a pretty full week in my experience.
"I'm often talking to him very late at night about work," he said.
"I've known the Prime Minister for going on 30 years and in my experience you won't find a harder working person.
"People can form their own views but what I know, not a matter of perception but a matter of fact, is the prime minister works very hard every day."
But Northern Territory Senator Jacinta Price and Indigenous leader Warren Mundine say the move was insulting as the violence and crime continues in Alice, with Deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley adding it didn't pass the pub test.
"It's an insult and a kick in the guts for the people of Alice Springs to see the PM spending more time relaxing and chugging back beers at the tennis than what he did on the ground in Alice Springs," Senator Price said.
"The threats and mayhem haven't stopped.
"We locals are subject to no longer being able to shop after 7pm as our shopping centres and town goes into lockdown."
Former Australian Labor Party president and businessman Warren Mundine said he was "really angry about it".
"You've got all these people who are being abused ... assaulted in the Northern Territory, and he (Albanese) spent three days lounging around the tennis courts, drinking beer and having a great time with mates.
"This is a bloke who wants to have a legacy about how he treats Aboriginal people and how he's going to make the world better.
"And here he is - the visual of that really, really made me sick."
Mr Mundine said the Prime Minister and Minister for Indigenous Australians, Linda Burney, should return to Alice Springs and get outcomes.
"The country is hurting. Get out of the bloody corporate boxes," Mr Mundine told Sydney radio station 2gb.
"The images that he sent out ... it's like the ScoMo one when he was in Hawaii when the country was burning down."
Newly appointed Central Australian regional controller Dorelle Anderson will on Wednesday report back to Mr Albanese and NT chief minister Natasha Fyles about potential changes to alcohol restrictions, beyond reduced trading hours and sale limits.
Deputy Liberal leader Sussan Ley said the people of Alice Springs needed more leadership from Mr Albanese.
"If he wants to go to the tennis that's up to him and there's no issue with that," Ms Ley said.
"But the fact he's seemingly spent three days watching the tennis in Melbourne and just four hours in Alice Springs doesn't pass the pub test, you don't get to be a part-time Prime Minister."
The comments come as Mr Albanese rubbed shoulders with Australian artists at the launch of Labor's new cultural strategy in Melbourne on Monday, where he called on them to get behind an Indigenous voice to parliament.
The Prime Minister's office was contacted for comment.
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/prime-minister-anthony-albanese-blasted-for-spending-more-time-at-australian-open-than-alice-springs/news-story/d399572df3296f0d38a58c482eae48b8
#18252285 at 2023-01-30 08:37:51 (UTC+1)
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Doubters find their voice on recognition: 'fix is destined to fail'
SIMON BENSON and JOE KELLY - JANUARY 30, 2023
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A formal committee advancing the No case for a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous voice to parliament will be launched on Monday and warns the body would forever change the way Australia was governed while failing to improve results for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
Comprised of former and current MPs and prominent Indigenous figures, the No campaign will propose a preamble to the Constitution and a new parliamentary committee to focus on the rights of native title holders under existing legislation.
The six-member committee has enlisted leading Indigenous voices including Country Liberal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and former Labor Party president Nyunggai Warren Mundine. Former Nationals leader John Anderson will also be a key spokesman, and the committee will be administered by former Labor minister and charities commissioner Gary Johns.
Other members include Indigenous Australians Bob Liddle, who owns Kemara enterprises, and Ian Conway, who started Kings Creek Station in the Northern Territory and developed an educational trust for disadvantaged remote children.
The No Case Committee claims it will be the "foundation" group around which the No case will be fought, and is calling its campaign Recognise a Better Way.
Anthony Albanese said on Friday the referendum would be about a vote for "consultation with Indigenous people on matters that affect them. That is simply the principle that is there."
But the No case will contest the idea a federal voice would have a benign influence on Australia's system of parliamentary democracy, with Senator Price saying it could follow in the footsteps of the First Peoples Assembly of Victoria, which had its first meeting in ?December 2019.
Describing itself as "the voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait ?Islander peoples in the Treaty Process", the First Peoples Assembly has proposed ideas that Senator Price warned could "split" the country.
These include making "a number of seats" in state parliament open to election exclusively by ?Indigenous Australians; creating a "permanent representative body with meaningful decision-making powers" that it likens to a "black parliament" and delivering "First Peoples oversight of the Victorian government and public service".
The Victorian Labor government has also provided $65m ?towards "fair and equitable" treaty negotiations, something Senator Price warned would become a key focus of a federal voice.
"I think the Prime Minister needs to inform the Australian public of what his intentions are - would he block a model like what's unfolding in Victoria so as not to create another chamber of parliament," Senator Price said. "The current model of the First Peoples Assembly is a model that could ?absolutely be adopted and adopted in our Constitution if this referendum is successful."
Mr Anderson also said that if the proposal was "as modest as the Prime Minister wants us to ?believe, where is the advice from the Solicitor-General? If it were as essentially benign as they say, all my experience tells me we would have had that advice by now," he said.
Writing in The Australian, ?Senator Price, Mr Mundine and Mr Johns said the government's proposal was misplaced and unnecessary. "The Albanese government's proposed voice in the Australian constitution is the wrong way to recognise Aboriginal people, or help Aborigines in need," they said.
"The voice is a second voice, a second bite at the cherry, for one group only.
"The voice proposal smacks of the paternalism of an earlier time, without proof that it will help those in need. It is an insult to the fact that Aborigines are capable of being heard in the public arena."
With Mr Albanese deciding there will be no public funding for either side, the committee has formed a fundraising arm to bankroll its campaign through donations, with significant corporate backing expected for the Yes campaign.
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#18252267 at 2023-01-30 08:32:19 (UTC+1)
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Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and John Anderson unite to co-ordinate 'No' vote in Voice to Parliament referendum
Jane Norman - 30 January 2023
A group of high-profile Indigenous Australians has banded together with a former deputy prime minister to co-ordinate the No campaign in this year's Voice referendum, running on the slogan "Recognise a Better Way".
It comes as Opposition Leader Peter Dutton accepts an invitation to attend this week's Referendum Working Group meeting for a briefing on the proposal to enshrine an Indigenous Voice in the constitution.
Mr Dutton - who will attend via video-link from Sydney where he will be attending Cardinal George Pell's funeral - has been demanding more detail from the Albanese government on the Voice before the Liberal Party settles on a formal position.
While Mr Dutton is torn between members of his party who want to back the Voice and those who are vehemently opposed, the grassroots campaigns are starting to take shape.
The Yes group, led by "Australians for Indigenous Constitutional Recognition", will formally launch its campaign with a "week of action" in late February.
Calling itself the "No Case Committee", the first formal No group has emerged with members including firebrand Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, former ALP president turned Liberal candidate Warren Mundine, former federal Labor MP Gary Johns and former deputy prime minister John Anderson.
The six-member committee will broadly support symbolic gesture of recognising Indigenous Australians in the constitution while opposing the Voice, arguing it is divisive and will do nothing to improve the lives of First Nations people.
"Bureaucracies have been built in the past and they have all failed miserably," Mr Mundine said.
"We need to be getting down into Alice Springs and all of the other communities and working there, not working in Canberra."
In a sign the group could be eyeing migrant communities, Mr Mundine said he believed constitutional recognition should be broadened to include "the migrants and refugees" who had "contributed to this country".
This is despite the Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia (FECCA) firmly backing a "First Nations Voice" in the constitution.
When that position was put to him, Mr Mundine said: "I think all Australians should be recognised for their contribution to this country."
Mr Anderson, who chaired a Recognition review panel in 2014, said the No Case Committee would be "mounting the case for No, from an Aboriginal perspective" and he did not expect any "formal linkage" with right-wing groups such as Advance Australia which were also campaigning against the Voice.
"We are supporting four significant Aboriginal figures who do not believe this is right," he said, referring to Senator Price, Mr Mundine, Bob Liddle and Ian Conway.
Mr Anderson said he had "reluctantly" formed the same view and was becoming increasingly concerned by attempts to "shame people who dare to ask questions".
"I genuinely believe these ill-defined proposals are not a good idea," he said.
"I believe they'll tend towards division and resentment."
The federal government has confirmed no public funding will be provided to either side of the campaign ahead of the referendum, which is set to be held in the second half of this year.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-30/prominent-indigenous-campaigners-against-voice-to-parliament/101906920
#16481793 at 2022-06-21 10:01:12 (UTC+1)
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Greens leader Adam Bandt refuses to stand with Australian flag
PAUL GARVEY, JOE KELLY and ALEXANDRA MIDDLETON - JUNE 21, 2022
Adam Bandt's refusal to stand in front of the Australian flag as Greens leader has been labelled divisive and "childish virtue-signalling" by Indigenous community leaders, who say it is contrary to the spirit of reconciliation.
Political opponents of Mr Bandt also questioned why Greens MPs would want to represent Australians in the federal parliament if they were ashamed of their own country.
It comes as the NSW government on Sunday announced that, by the end of the year, the Aboriginal flag would permanently fly alongside the Australian flag on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Mr Bandt's practice since becoming Greens leader in 2020 has been to remove the Australian flag from behind him when conducting press conferences.
"For many people, this flag represents dispossession and the lingering pains of colonisation," he said. "Through treaty with First Nations' people and by moving to a republic, we can have a flag that represents all of us."
Carol Martin, the first Indigenous woman to be elected to any Australian parliament, said Mr Bandt's decision to remove the Australian flag could cause division at a time when unity was needed to help deliver an Indigenous voice to parliament.
"The question is, what is it going to achieve?" the former Labor member of the WA Legislative Assembly said. "We are having a discussion now about a voice and the Statement from the Heart, and if you want to bring people on board why would you kick them in the goolies?
"It doesn't work.
"If you want to move forward, the way to do that isn't to offend the majority."
Ian Trust, an Indigenous elder who runs employment programs in the Kimberley town of Kununurra and is a longtime advocate for Indigenous children, said Mr Bandt's decision went against the spirit of reconciliation that was central to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags.
"Having the three flags together is all part of the reconciliation and that's what we are trying to achieve here," he said.
"You don't achieve reconciliation by removing one of those flags. That goes against the grain of everything it's about."
He described Mr Bandt's move as "shortsighted". "Personally, if I was an Australian -politician, even though I recognise the Aboriginal flag, I would have the Australian flag there as well. That's part of the country you're in," he said.
Hannah McGlade, a lawyer and lifelong advocate for the human rights of Aboriginal women and children and an expert adviser to the UN on the rights of Indigenous peoples, slammed the move. "I went to law school with Adam Bandt, who never showed an interest in Aboriginal issues," she said.
"I was also a Noongar activist supporting elders protecting our heritage sites, and racism and racist violence - he never spoke once to me about our fight for justice.
"Adam Bandt doesn't have any track record on Aboriginal rights in my state, and his comments about the flag reflect symbolism which is rejected by Aboriginal people because we know it's actually rights we want."
At his first press conference as Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese displayed all three flags.
Northern Territory senator-elect for the Country Liberal Party Jacinta Price said the removal of the flag was "very disrespectful to all Australians."
"It's becoming a little bit childish for leaders to be virtue-signalling about who loves Aboriginal people more," she said.
"There's a lot of Aboriginal people out there who I'm sure like myself can see right through it. Just get on with representing all Australians, that's what we are all elected to do regardless of our backgrounds. It is racist of Bandt to continue to paint Aboriginal Australians as helpless victims in need of rescuing by the likes of privileged woke MP's."
Opposition legal affairs and Indigenous Australians spokesman Julian Leeser said all parliamentarians should have the nation's flag in view. "If it is good enough for Indigenous servicemen to fight under the Australian flag, it should be good enough for our parliamentarians to respect the flag by holding their press conferences in front of it," he said.
Indigenous leader Warren Mundine also branded Mr Bandt's reasoning as "childish and stupid ... We are all trying to bring Australia together. That's why we put the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags together with the Australian flag, so we are seen as one nation."
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/greens-leader-adam-bandt-refuses-to-stand-with-australian-flag/news-story/697aac352edbe781d45dba2e54206be6
#5437637 at 2019-02-28 21:20:18 (UTC+1)
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5. Government favours for mates… again!
The Government continued with its 'jobs for mates' policy last week - this time using money from the Indigenous Advancement Strategy to fund a television program on Sky News starring Warren Mundine, the Liberal Party's candidate for the electorate of Gilmore.
Senator Jenny McAllister questioned Minister for Indigenous Affairs Nigel Scullion about how this deal happened- with Scullion denying Mundine had privately proposed the television show to him despite the department saying that's exactly what happened.
The Minister further denied that spending public money to raise the profile of somebody who would soon become a Liberal candidate was a bad look - securing his spot in the "completely out of touch" category of senators in the Morrison Government.