FORMER Prime Minister John Howard has described Labor’s efforts to implement an Indigenous Voice as suspicious, saying the Coalition appeared increasing hostile to the idea. Mr Howard said there were substantial arguments against the Voice and that it was unlikely to be…
ABORIGINAL leader Warren Mundine has warned Australians were being deceived with tricks and emotive language into supporting an Aboriginal Voice. In an article appearing in The Australian newspaper this week the author and businessman described the Voice as nothing more than a…
by NINA NGUYEN – FRAMING Aboriginals as victims removes individual responsibility and denies them the opportunity to flourish, according to Indigenous Senator Jacinta Price. The Country Liberal Party senator for Northern Territory said last week this approach creates the expectation that the…
by DAVID FLINT – Sir Robert Menzies was, of course, not infallible. But he was right in his strong belief that while everything should be done to improve the welfare of the Aboriginal people, it would be a serious mistake to endow…
by WARREN MUNDINE – WHILE Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his minister for Indigenous affairs frolic together with NBA basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal, the proposal for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament, devolves into a bully pulpit for elitists,…
by ALEXANDER VOLTZ – WHEN we consider which eminent citizen amongst us we might place our trust in if Australia were ever to become a republic, I can think of no better candidate for the office of President than Senator Lidia Alma…
by GABRIEL MOENS – PM ANTHONY Albanese used an address at an Indigenous Festival in the Northern Territory last month to reveal the referendum question to be put to the Australian people to enshrine the Voice in the Constitution. Although it is…
by DAVID FLINT – THE Albanese government claims a mandate to impose certain policies, some of which will seriously damage Australia. Take just four of the most prominent and permit me to describe them, not as the spin-doctors do, but in accordance…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE Aboriginal industry and possibly some Indigenous people themselves have been agitating for a “voice”. Surprisingly, these advocates think that having their own “voice to parliament” – whatever this might actually mean – will improve their lot. They…
by DAVID FLINT – IT IS rare for Australian governments, federal or State, to perform even passably on any matter of importance – defence, energy, water, development, manufacturing, education, finance, housing or even sex where scientific truth is being replaced by gender…
