Commentary
Australia is beginning to tear itself apart at the behest of the clumsy and ham-fisted approach of the government and its determination to shoehorn the Indigenous Voice to Parliament (the Voice) into the Australian Constitution.
What is being promoted as healing and reconciling is in practice dividing and alienating.
The Voice is a proposal to insert a clause into the Constitution giving Aboriginal Australians a dedicated advisory body to the government separate from Parliament itself.
In principle, one would hope that all Australians are to be treated equally. In Australia’s democracy, all are in fact free to run for office subject to being a citizen and over 18 years of age….