Excerpt from Jacinta Prices article in today's Australian.
As an Indigenous person from Alice Springs, who is heavily involved with her people, she has skin in the game and knows more than the keyboard warriors and ALP operatives that post incessantly on HC. Pretty much agrees with Warren Mundine who said that the Uluru Statement was stacked to get a desired outcome.
Nothing exemplifies this notion more than the Uluru Statement from the Heart. The dialogues that culminated in the statement were strategically held with invited-only, unelected individuals of Aboriginal heritage as well as a selection of non-Indigenous Australians.
The outcome seemed to be predetermined by Megan Davis and Noel Pearson, both individuals who have no cultural connection to Uluru itself. The use of Uluru as the backdrop has been the perfect campaign PR tool, as has the physical statement itself, adorned by desert art and the signatures of 250 unelected and hand-picked individuals.
Reliant on the goodwill of everyday Australians, proponents of the voice sell the Uluru statement to the Australian people with the racial – and incorrect – stereotype of uniform Indigenous groupthink. The 250 signatures representing individuals who make up 0.03 per cent of a population demographic are not a sound representation of that demographic. Caught up in cultural romanticism and a yearning to better the lives of our most marginalised, non-Indigenous Australians buy into the Uluru Statement from the Heart as gospel.
Imposed on us is the victim narrative that sustains a multibillion-dollar industry that works in two ways: to justify its existence, and to discourage and disparage anyone who seeks to call it into question. The referendum asks Australians to enshrine this industry and narrative into our Constitution.
