Letter to the editor

THE VOICE

Dear Editor,

SENATOR Jacinta Price (The Adviser 12/7) raises some very serious concerns about what the unelected and unrepresentative Uluru group are seeking in the referendum.

The PM is claiming the Voice will only be in an advisory capacity, but this is not what the Uluru group is seeking. They want control of a democratically elected government from everything to submarines to parking meters by an unrepresentative Indigenous group based on race.

The leading ‘Yes’ campaigner is accusing the ‘No’ people of being uncaring and racist when in 1967 a referendum gave Aboriginal people the same citizen and voting rights as everyone else. It is the ‘Yes’ people that want to destroy this equality before the law which is enshrined in the Constitution and article one of the Universal Charter of Human Rights.

We don’t want political statements in the Constitution which gives claims to elitist rights and privileges. We are all equal before the law.

The ‘Yes’ people discount this and the UN Universal Charter of Human Rights. The WA socialist government of Mark McGowan stripped WA farmers of the right to farm without interference by requiring them to obtain an Aboriginal cultural and heritage officer if he wants to disturb the soil deeper than 50 millimetres. Failure to do so will incur severe penalties. They will strangle farming activities.

It is all about power and control. A Voice is not needed. Aboriginal people already have a minister representing their rights and interests.

I will be voting ‘No’.

Yours sincerely,

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