Age readers give their views on the state of the nation.
”, 26/8). It would seem that fear is the driver. Fear in non-Indigenous people losing advantage and control to First Nations people if a Voice is passed. While this is very sad to witness, losing advantage has no basis in fact.
If we consider the “pie” of Australia with all its advantages of natural resources, propensity for innovation, of “wealth for toil”, these things are not finite. For Indigenous people to have more of a say in matters that concern them, to close the gap in health, education, employment, housing and justice, will make Australia more productive and democratic. It will grow the “pie” exponentially.
More than 50 years ago, anthropologist Ted Stanner referred to ″the cult of forgetfulness″ practised by white Australians in relation to the Indigenous experience. There should now, in 2023, be no excuse to be ignorant of the fact that more than 10,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait people died during at least 414 massacres committed from 1788 to 1930.
The University of Newcastle historical research team has documented these massacres. How many people now reluctant to vote Yes to what should be an uncontroversial constitutional amendment are aware of such history? Crucially for this nation, the referendum Yes case must succeed.Jacqueline Maley calls attention to the ″morally bankrupt men who have captured the once-serious US Republican Party″.
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