To be clear, I will vote “yes” for the Voice if we get that far. It is worth a go to improve first nations’ living standards and the symbolism is important.
However, the reform appears dead already and everywhere there are cries from on high condemning Doomed Dutton skullduggery and LNP racism.
There is some truth to the allegation but it is not the key issue.
The bigger problem is the Voice is spectacularly ill-timed amid crashing living standards as:
- per capita recession begins;
- real incomes are decimated;
- extreme mass immigration that nobody voted for delivers an unprecedented housing shock;
- as well as crush-loading all public services, plus
- cartels deliver huge utility bill shocks.
Most of these are the direct result of woke Albanese Government policy failure.
Meanwhile, Albo barely ever touches down in Australia, swanning about the world wearing rainbow robes, treating Australians as deplorables.
For an angry and suffering population, this is adding insult to injury. As rich celebrities pile up to endorse the Voice it will only worsen.
A salient analogy is what happened to the Gillard Government and its signature reform in 2011. As it developed the carbon price, a post-GFC inflation pop drove interest rates up and house prices down.
With much of the country in deep recession, every fall in living standards measured further drops in support for the carbon price despite a population keen to act on climate change. The Government appeared unsympathetic and distracted as anger grew.
Similar to today, Tony Abbott and the LNP played spoiler, but it was the context that was the real killer.
The carbon price was conviction reform. The question in the case of Voice is whether Albo has deliberately used it to distract from his economic mismanagement. Symbolism over substance is the method of the woke politician.
If so, Australia’s indigenous have every right to be furious at Albo from the Projects
