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It is sad to see this style of post-truth politics come to something as basic as giving indigenous Australians a voice. Hopefully enough of the public see through the manipulation.
Why implement a permanent solution to a temporary problem of inequity?
Surely the inequity can be dealt with and then the need for special representation will cease to exist?
I seriously don’t understand why this needs to be in the Constitution. It is too permanent and removing it later, when its original purpose no longer applies, will be a costly and ugly argument.
It's not about inequality. The problem is that currently as it stands there is no special status in the constitution for the voice of the traditional owners of a land on which sovereignty was never ceded. It's a permanent problem that the voice will address.
No one should get a “special status” based on race, ever, for any reason.
I agree 100%
The voice to parliament isn't a privilege attributed to a race, it's a privilege for the traditional owners of the land.