I decline to invest in BHP for that reason.
Better opportunities elsewhere, even though BHP has a proud history and is often a good corporate citizen, with its production helping countless individuals throughout the world directly and indirectly.
Leader of the Federal Opposition, Peter Dutton, said this today:
(to be in 'The Australian' print edition tomorrow, Monday 3 July 2023):
"....many people in corporate Australia were craving popularity and trying to appease those in the Twittersphere by supporting the voice, including through major donations.
“There are many corporates at the moment, frankly, who lack a significant backbone,” he told Sky News’s Sunday Agenda program.
“There are debates that corporate Australia should be involved in and at the moment I don‘t think they’re paying due consideration to the views of their workforce, to the views of the community.
“There are a lot of CEOs and chairs who have very different conversations with you in private than what they say publicly because they‘re worried about ESG (environmental, social and governance) and remuneration packages being voted down at AGMs. It’s time they started to stand up for what’s in our country’s best interests.
“Clearly, the way that the Prime Minister has proposed the voice and conducted himself in his campaign, the voice is not in our country‘s best interests. And on that basis, I hope that people can support us in other tangible ways of finding better outcomes for Indigenous Australians, which is what we all desire..."
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'The Voice' will be receiving a firm 'NO' from my family, two of whom are well under 27 years old. They recognise the huge dangers of this ill-advised referendum succeeding: imagine every decision a government tried to make having to be run past a group of militant, left wing and most importantly unelected individuals. It's bad enough now in Oz, but if we 'give in to the vibe', it'll be a disaster for Australia.
I'm with Gindaldan.
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