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One minute in they're claiming the 'No' supporters are falsely claiming a Voice would give special rights to a specific race.
It is literally an amendment to the Constitution to create an advisory body dedicated to supporting a specific race. Whether you agree with affirmative action or not, people aren't bloody stupid. If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then I don't need an alleged "independent expert's" ackchyually to tell me it's something else.
I am so over this. Can we have the referendum already? Then we can have the stupid referendum about becoming a republic, and maybe then we can start thinking about all the people who can't afford food or shelter.
Notice how they continually refer to "rights" as if they are careful to only address that word specifically. I wonder what their response would be if the question was whether the Voice would be giving unfair representation to Australian citizens of a particular background.
As they point out, other bodies makes representations to Parliament, but none of those required a constitutional amendment yet they seem sufficiently represented.
They're sufficiently represented because those bodies are resourced by companies and NGOs. Indigenous people don't have those same resources, and simply allocating them through normal government process (as has happened in the past) can simply be undone by successive governments for political/ideological reasons.
Constitutional amendment prevents that from happening. It guarantees they always have a voice.
Why is this so dog whistly
It's not a voice based on race, this is the biggest fallacy. It's a voice for people who are traditional owners of a land that was never ceded.
Is not because they're aboriginal, it's because they were here first.