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[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 15 points 1 year ago

Senator Nampijinpa Price, among other comments, denied First Nations Australians were currently being negatively impacted by colonisation

lol

"[The Voice] is built on lies and an aggressive attempt to fracture our nation's founding document and divide the country built upon it," she said. "That division has now seen the no campaign branded as being base racism."

Your campaign has been branded as racist because it is racist. Crying about your hurt feelings does not change this and is not an argument for a No vote.

"We are being asked by a few elites to enshrine it [the Voice] within our constitution, without knowing its functions or powers. Describing the Voice as an advisory group understates its significance and gives the misleading impression it would be a benign-sounding board for ideas," she said. "That the Voice will produce representations, not advice, suggests its role would be more like a lobby group that acts only in the interests of its clients, not the interests of the government, the parliament or even the nation."

So you claim to not know its functions and powers, yet also claim that you do know its functions and powers? Flawless logic, just what you'd expect from a leader of the Conservative No campaign.

[–] Nonameuser678@aussie.zone 12 points 1 year ago

I don't know how anyone can engage with the history of colonisation in this country and not see how it has had ongoing effects. There are survivors of the stolen generation who are still alive and still very much impacted by what they experienced.

[–] Minarble@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

I seriously don’t know how she can live with herself.

She appears to be to the right of Pauline Hanson in this regard. Even Potato man would not back up her assertion. If she was not Aboriginal herself she would be rightly facing a firestorm of condemnation over these comments.