I appreciate your response Scott however when you say:
"should the vote fail to accept the constitutional placement of the Voice, it will be seen by Aboriginal people as a clear and resounding rejection of them and their hopes for remediation of their problems"
You are making an incorrect assertion that "Aboriginal people" all see things the same way. We all know for absolute certain that this isn't the case. Many of the key people saying "NO" are aboriginal so you are suggesting if we agree with these aboriginals who are saying NO and do what they are asking and vote NO then we are rejecting them. Its really hard to see how this could be a rational position to take.
Again, this isn't about rejecting any part of our society. Its about rejecting an idea which the vast majority of Australians find repugnant. Australians pay a massive premium of more than $40 billion a year trying to help some of these people. Thats not rejection. Sadly the people who need it don't see any of that. The people who will be the voice will be the very people who are already standing in the way of the existing $40 billion getting.
If anything this proposal minimizes the chances of those remote people getting heard. A small group of unelected elites are claiming the right to speak on their behalf even though so many of them are saying NO to it. This is a contradiction. The voice is designed to take away the voice of the actual people and concentrate that voice and power into a small group who will almost certainly be many of the existing people doing very well in political and lobbying positions and probably know what the rest of us don't, ie where the hell all the money goes.
