Well, just take a look at this document, which solves the mystery<\/a>.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s the Uluru Statement \u2026 in full.<\/p>\n
Is this what the PM and the \u2018yes\u2019 campaign have signed up for after this referendum?<\/p>\n
\u201c… a Treaty could include a proper say in decision-making, the establishment of a truth commission, reparations, a financial settlement (such as seeking a percentage of GDP), the resolution of land, water and resources issues, recognition of authority and customary law, and guarantees of respect for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nWhile redacted parts appeared in the Final Report of the Referendum Council1<\/sup>, which referred to them as \u201cextracts from the Uluru Statement\u201d, the entire document was released under Freedom of Information laws.<\/p>\nAnd reported by Sky News host Peta Credlin last week2<\/sup>.<\/p>\nThis is how news.com.au told the story3<\/sup>:<\/p>\nTaxpayers may be forced to pay \u201creparations\u201d to Indigenous Australians for \u201cpast, present and future criminal acts\u201d under a proposed treaty, with suggestions that \u201ca fixed percentage\u201d of GDP be handed over through \u201crates, land tax and royalties\u201d…<\/em><\/p>\nBut what\u2019s that got to do with the divisive Voice, you might ask!<\/p>\n
The \u2018yes\u2019 campaigners will look you dead in the eye and \u2013 like the Prime Minister \u2013 swear the Voice has nothing to do with a treaty!<\/strong><\/p>\nBut that\u2019s not what Thomas Mayo and Teela Reid, members of Albo\u2019s referendum advisory group, were saying before the campaign.<\/p>\n
Mayo tweeted that without a Voice, Australians are \u201cmuch less likely to support what we may claim in a treaty (reparations, land back etc<\/strong>)\u201d.<\/p>\n\u201cA constitutionally enshrined Voice to Parliament will provide the political clout<\/strong> needed to enforce<\/strong> & protect treaties,\u201d he wrote!<\/p>\nTeela Reid tweeted that \u201censhrining a First Nations Voice is paramount to enforcing treaty and holding the system to account\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe \u2018yes\u2019 campaign\u2019s leading spokesman Noel Pearson said the Voice was the \u201cstarting point before we can talk about a treaty\u201d4<\/sup>.<\/p>\nSo why does the Prime Minister keep saying this referendum has nothing to do with a treaty?<\/p>\n
The truth is that the Voice is the first instalment of a package deal.<\/p>\n
As Noel Pearson put it, the Voice is \u201cthe first door\u201d and the \u201ctreaty door is the second door\u201d5<\/sup><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\nSo don\u2019t tell us that this referendum is not about a treaty!<\/p>\n
Because if you say \u2018yes\u2019 to a Voice enshrined in the Constitution \u2026<\/p>\n
\u2026 you\u2019re saying \u2018yes\u2019 to handing the activists \u201cpolitical clout\u201d and opening the door to a costly and expensive treaty.<\/p>\n
Yours in unity,<\/p>\n
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Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price<\/strong>
\non behalf of FAIR AUSTRALIA<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
1\u00a0<\/sup>Referendum Council, Final Report<\/em>, June 30, 2017.<\/p>\n2\u00a0<\/sup>Sky News, \u2018Sky News host Peta Credlin exposes Labor’s \u2018lie\u2019 on the Uluru Statement from the Heart under Freedom of Information Act\u2019, August 3, 2023.<\/p>\n3\u00a0<\/sup>news.com.au, \u2018\u201cLand tax\u201d: Secret document reveals demand for \u201cpercentage of GDP\u201d under Indigenous Treaty\u2019, August 4, 2023.<\/p>\n4\u00a0<\/sup>Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas, \u2018In Conversation: Noel Pearson and Paul Keating\u2019, April 2, 2022.<\/p>\n5\u00a0<\/sup>The Australian, \u2018Pearson pushes constitution-first line on indigenous treaty\u2019, August 4, 2018.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shouldn\u2019t Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the \u2018yes\u2019 campaign be proud of their promise of a treaty? They\u2019ve said often enough they\u2019re going to implement the Uluru Statement \u201cin full\u201d after the referendum. And that means a treaty and a \u201ctruth-telling\u201d commission after the divisive Voice is cemented into the Constitution. So why does Albo … <\/p>\n
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