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Despite a resounding No in the Voice referendum and widespread opposition to Welcome to Country, Labor continues promoting its agenda over that of everyday voters who want genuine representation in Canberra. Artwork by Brian Doyle.

Labor’s ongoing love affair with the Voice to Parliament and Welcome to Country should be sounding alarm bells for the majority of Australians who oppose both.

If the polls and betting markets are correct, we’ll have another Labor government by Saturday. But it’s a government that doesn’t deserve the mantle, given its blatant disregard for the will of the Australian people on issues we’ve been so clear about.

During an interview Monday, Foreign Affairs Minister and Senate Leader Penny Wong sneered that a Voice to Parliament is still inevitable and that Australians will look back with regret for ever voting No.

“I think we’ll look back on it in 10 years time and it’ll be a bit like marriage equality, don’t you reckon?” she scoffed on the Betoota Advocate Podcast.

“Marriage equality… “took us such a bloody fight to get that done,” she added — hinting that the Voice will also ultimately triumph despite current opposition.

Yes — Wong was talking about the same Voice referendum that Australians rejected by a resounding 60.1% to 39.9% — or 20-point — margin.

Don’t forget — this is the same Voice whose 25 secret pages laid the groundwork for treaty, reparations and permanent racial division in Australia. It’s the same Voice for which Albanese appointed two self-professed Communists to lead the charge.

And don’t believe the lie that “racist” Australians were responsible that referendum’s defeat.

The Northern Territory — with the highest proportion of Indigenous voters in Australian — closely mirrored the national No vote. In fact, the five most Indigenous electorates, all remote and rural, voted No by an average of 71%. By contrast, the ACT was the only state or territory to vote Yes, despite having an Indigenous population of less than 2%.

In summary, the entire Voice fiasco was little more than Labor beltway elites lecturing Aboriginal and middle Australia about what’s best for us.

The same goes for Welcome to Country, if a recent News.com.au poll is any indication.

At last count, 67% of respondents said the ritual “should stop completely,” while another 23% felt “there should be less” of it. That’s a striking 90% of Australians expressing some level of opposition. Only 3% said they wanted to see more.

Though the survey was user-initiated, the sheer volume of responses — over 164,000 — offers a compelling glimpse into the public’s sentiment on the issue.

Meanwhile, in the final leaders debate on Sunday, only Dutton had the pluck to agree with everyday Aussies that Welcome to Country is “overdone”. Albanese, by contrast, stuck to the party line, calling it “a matter of respect” for “the oldest continuous culture on earth”.

Elect Labor, expect more Welcome to Country, in other words.

Same goes for the Voice.

It was only after a wave of public backlash that Albanese and Wong moved to quash any suggestion the Voice could be revived if Labor returns to power.

But those assurances offer cold comfort to Australians who remember Albo’s broken promises on housing supply, immigration cuts, and the infamous $275 drop in power bills.

Indeed, Wong vowed “the Voice is gone” only after the press had its guns trained on her. Her earlier remarks about its likely return were the real Wong — delivered in a 40-minute sit-down interview that posed not a single adversarial question.

It’s true that politicians make a sport of speaking one way to their allies and another to the public. But for Labor, it’s an art form.

As a result, Australians can rest assured that re-electing Labor means getting plenty more of what they never asked for.

As captured by one satirist, whose witty words merit lengthy quotation:

In an inspiring leap forward for progressive authoritarianism, the Albanese government has courageously declared that when Australians voted NO to the Voice, what they actually meant was “Yes, but please legislate it without our consent.”

“Democracy is complicated,” explained a spokesperson from the Department of Reinterpretation and Gaslighting. “Sometimes the people get it wrong. That’s why we’re here… to correct their ignorance with compassion and Marxism.”

Meanwhile, Penny Wong — fresh from her eighth Welcome to Country of the morning — reassured the public that 68% of Australians voting to scrap those ceremonies simply proves how much more essential they are. “They’re not divisive,” she said, “they’re just a small reminder that you should constantly feel guilty for being born.”

When asked if this push might be viewed as ignoring the will of the people, Albo confidently responded, “Not at all. The Australian people trust us. Just like they trusted us on housing, energy bills, and COVID internment camps.”

Critics who once campaigned for marriage equality have now dared to question whether they unknowingly opened the floodgates to state-funded pronouns, puberty blockers, and drag shows for toddlers. Fortunately, Reddit moderators and public servants are working around the clock to report them to the Human Rights Commission.

“Wokeness is love,” explained one Greens senator while removing the Australian flag from Parliament and replacing it with a rainbow-Indigenous-climate hybrid. “And love means overriding your vote, your values, and your voice.”

If Australians have learned anything from the past three years under Labor, it’s that the left loves nothing more than the sound of its own Voice.

Yet the whole point of Australia’s parliamentary democracy is to have our voice represented in Canberra.

Perhaps it’s time we tried that instead.

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Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.