Aussie wrote on Jun 27
th, 2023 at 8:35am:
Quote:Link for what?
That "There are many non Aboriginals that don't want to enroll or vote in elections."
https://www.ozpolitic.com/articles/wrong-referendum.html
One of the most depressing events of late was an article from The Guardian in which the Greens and an aboriginal representative called for relaxing of voter registration rules for the referendum. The article was titled “Fears Indigenous Australians Could be Disenfranchised in Voice Referendum Unless Voting Rules Changed”. Joe Martin-Jard, the chief executive of the Northern Land Council, and a Kamilaroi man said:
“In a perverse way, [the current rules are] stopping our mob and suppressing their voice to get a voice its a very unusual situation, “
“If someone turns up at a polling booth and there’s a person in the community that can vouch for that person they should be able to vote, that is what we are advocating for. “
The vote he is talking about is a vote in the referendum, not the general election. Think about the message that this man is sending to his own community - that to avoid being disenfranchised (losing voting rights), instead of enrolling to vote and actually voting, they should attempt to cast a vote in the referendum without bothering to enrol, so that some kind of committee in Canberra that they have absolutely no control over can speak to the government on their behalf. This is how the government, and the various aboriginal representatives they have already appointed, have convinced regional communities they are going to magically stop children being raped, wives being beating and killed, deaths in custody, discrimination etc.
It is naive and intellectually lazy.