I am all for equality for all, but history suggests its bound to fail and from what I have seen is very decisive subject within the Australian community
There have been a number of different statutory bodies set up by the GOTD over the years all have tried I fail to see how this will change anything but make more division within Australian society
Aboriginal Development Commission (ADC) 1980-89
Aboriginal Economic Development Corporation (AECD)
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC)1990-2005
Ministerial Taskforce on Indigenous Affairs
Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination
National Indigenous Council
history behind the Indigenous Voice to Parliament (The Voice)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenou ... Parliament
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/th ... 710-p525s6
I found this interesting position being taken by Warren Mundine
https://www.cis.org.au/commentary/opini ... arliament/
From the beginning, I have never been convinced to support the Voice, a position I share with many other Aboriginals from across the political spectrum. The reason for this is three-fold:
The Voice is not Aboriginal culture. In our cultures, only countrymen and women can speak for country. No national body can speak for the circa 300 traditional owner groups, Australia’s “First Nations,” it would be a huge bureaucratic structure drowning out Aboriginal voices, not enabling them to be heard;
I am a believer in liberal democracy and all the freedoms and opportunities it creates; and
I don’t believe Australia and its Constitution is racist. There are racist individuals in our country, like every country in the world, but that does not make our country nor the laws that govern us racist.