There are no ‘No’ winners
When my friend in Aotearoa rang me to say how she despaired for Australia when the Voice was lost, I reminded her to keep her anger not her despair. What has the ‘No’ vote achieved? I stood in the 40 degree heat at the polling booth in my local rural area and was so, so proud of my fellow Voices from the Heart! The ‘No’ campaigners were represented by a majority of ‘old white men’ (as a ‘yes’ voter noted) and they were lost in settler resentment and lies about what the Voice would take from their rights to own their land and do with it as they wanted. Their arguments were based on the American Constitution and its Amendments. Australian politics has become subservient to American politics. Too many Australian politicians share white settler ‘values’ of violent upheaval of First Nation peoples who respect Country and value communal custodianship rather than private ownership.
Australia was never ‘terra nullius’. Its vitality and biodiversity shine. I stand firmly and proudly for ‘Yes’ to the Voice from the Heart. It’s the only wise and mature way forward.
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