Voice to Parliament isn't 'recognising' us as 'equal'



There are many migrant communities who are not prepared to support the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament, NT Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says.

“Because it isn’t recognising us as equal,” she told Sky News host Rita Panahi.

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24 thoughts on “Voice to Parliament isn't 'recognising' us as 'equal'”

  1. The Australian government was so passionate in boycotting and ending apartheid in South Africa in the past, and yet today, they are embracing this racist regime and want to enshrine this racist and divisive policy into law? But we all know there is much more to all of this – they want the Australian people to give the government permission and the right to change our constitution where behind the scenes individual freedoms and democracy will eventually be removed and you and your families will be worse off. This has nothing to do with remote indigenous peoples – they are simply being used by Labor/Greens to further their corrupt and delusional ideology.

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  2. I assume that under the treaty and sovereignty concerns, down the track Labor and the Greens will hand the land of Australia back to the indigenous people and get the rest of us to lease it back with the imposition of a lease fee or tax on the rest of us.
    The problem is see is that if any of us travel overseas, we may need to confirm our right to live here as we are, in this case entering a sovereign country that no longer belongs to us.
    I think mission creep with the voice might also create legal issues with our citizenship obligations and rights.

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  3. Why do some people call Aborigines First Australian, for I would bet London to a Brick, that they may have had many names for this land, but it would not be Australia, and Aborigines were not even recognized as Australians until 1968, that was 67 years after the founding of the Commonwealth of Australia, so how could they be the First Australians, but they are now like the rest of us, just Australians.

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  4. Of course not. Because at the heart of this whole thing is the premise that this is THEIR country, THEIR being exclusively Aboriginals, not OUR country as in all Australians including Aboriginals. I was once told by a white activist that if I drove out into the country I needed to learn some of the local Aboriginal language, just like I would if I was going to a foreign country, because we are only ever "visitors to their country". So even as a born or naturalised Australian, they contend we will never stand as equals when it comes to whose country this is. If you said to a naturalised Australian this isn't their country you would be branded a racist, but the same rule doesn't apply when an Aboriginal (or white activist!) says it to a non-Aboriginal!

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