1)
Warren Mundine argued yet again (in the Murdoch Empire again), that
“voting No if you don’t know makes perfect sense”
However, people don’t know because they have been listening to the No case which is bent on confusing the issues, being inaccurate and distracting with complete irrelevancies. Confusion is what they are about.
[We could wonder if this is deliberate, because they cannot argue their real objections publicaly; they fear they would be condemned or they are incapable of speking, because their feelings are beyond their symbolic capacity]
however, rather than staying with the Murdoch and mining company approved “I don’t know so I’ll vote No”, it is far more sensible to try and inform yourself and free yourself.
you could start by just finding the proposition you are voting on. Its pretty short. Its pretty simple. Whatever the No people say there are no hidden paragraphs and you would not be approving them even if they existed. The form is not decided, that will come with consultation and debate. You can assume that Dutton, Mundine and Co will point out problems if they have objections.
The reality is that the ‘No’ case people don’t want people to understand the question or the process, or people might just vote ‘Yes’.
Please don’t vote for people who want you to stay ignorant and vote for them because of that ignorance.
2)
Warran Mundine is now claiming that the:
“Uluru Statement is a dossier of damnation, written to make Australians feel only shame.”
It could be that he is reading something else, he could be trying to make another attempt to confuse people, or he has not read the actual Statement, which is short.
It is hardly “a dossier of damnation”
The Uluru Statement from the Heart does say:
- Aboriginal people have been in Australia for a long time.
True.
- Most aboriginal people have continuing ties to the land.
True.
- They have never ceded that relationship with the land which “co-exists with the sovereignty of the Crown”.
True.
- Aboriginal People have not disappeared.
True.
- They hope to shine through as a fuller expression of Australia’s nationhood.
- But they are incarcertated at really high rates. This affects their children.
True
They say:
- “We seek constitutional reforms to empower our people and take a rightful place in our own country.”
- They seek ‘Makarrata’, or “the coming together after a struggle.”
- They want a better future for their children and “truth-telling about our history.”
How On Earth does this become “a dossier of damnation, written to make Australians feel only shame”?
That statement seems completely UNTRUE, without a great deal of vivid and free imagination being applied.
Mr Mudine says “History is much more complex and nuanced.” It certainly is, and doesn’t have to be all cuddly and flattering to be true
Oddly even if it was a “dossier of damnation”, Australia is not voting on the Statement from the Heart. We are voting on the proposition linked to above…
This is all more deliberate confusion from the No Campaign.
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