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The only Aboriginal Voice Labor apparently wants to hear is one that votes ‘yes’ to an Australia divided by race.

The Australian Labor Party has seemingly decided the Voice is a foregone conclusion.

As reported by Sky News, a delegation of 22 Aboriginal leaders and community members from around Australia visited Canberra this week to voice their opposition to ‘the Voice’. Theirs was an unwelcome voice, however, with not a single member of the Labor Party willing to meet with them and hear their concerns.

The Voice of Aboriginal Leaders Ignored

Representing Fair Australia and hosted by Senator for the Northern Territory Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, the Indigenous delegation met with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians Julian Leeser and Senators and Representatives from the Nationals, Liberals, One Nation, UAP and several independents.

In a telling display, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had no time for these Indigenous voices, nor did Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney. Some of the delegates had travelled two days in order to visit Parliament House and make their voice heard.

Reflecting on these events, Senator Price asked,

Where was the Prime Minister?

Where was the Minister for Indigenous Australians?

Where was anyone from the Labor Party?

They didn’t have time for these voices.

Why? Because these voices weren’t saying what the Labor Party wanted to hear.

“Albo doesn’t want to listen to the Voices of all Aboriginal Australians,” Price added. “He wants to give his city-based mates a free run over the government of the day.”

‘Not All Black Fellas Think the Same About the Voice’

The delegates who visited Canberra this week have previously expressed their concerns that an ‘Indigenous Voice to Parliament’ will “wreck our Constitution, rewire our democracy, and divide Australians by race”. They hoped to tell federal parliamentarians that the Voice proposal will ultimately prove “divisive, dangerous, expensive and not fair”.

Speaking with Peta Credlin on Sky News, one of the delegates Cheryl Long said, “I came to tell them that not all black fellas think the same about the Voice. None of my family knows what The Voice is in remote communities.”

Campaigning with Fair Australia, Long has previously stated her view that, “The only voice we will ever need is the Australian voice. Let’s create unity and not division.”

Australia Already Has a $2 Billion Indigenous Voice

A day after ignoring the 22 Aboriginal voices that travelled to Parliament House, the Prime Minister and his Indigenous Australians Minister unveiled their proposed wording for the Voice referendum.

As announced, they plan to ask Australians, “A Proposed Law: to alter the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Do you approve this proposed alteration?”

However, Rowan Dean recently highlighted on an episode of Outsiders that an ‘Indigenous Voice to Parliament’ already exists in the National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA), whose stated purpose is to “lead and influence change across government to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have a say in the decisions that affect them”.

Funded to the tune of over $2 billion by Australian taxpayers, the NIAA has been instructed by no less than Australia’s Governor-General to “provide advice to the Prime Minister and the Minister for Indigenous Australians on whole-of-government priorities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples”.

In the words of Rowan Dean, “The Aussie taxpayer, always generous to a fault clearly, isn’t necessarily so flush with cash that we can afford two Voices, both basically doing exactly the same sort of stuff, give or take. And both costing us billions and billions of dollars.”

The inordinate expense of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament is one of four key reasons offered by Fair Australia to reject the proposal. Their other reasons include the race-based division it will exacerbate in the Australian community, the threat it poses to our nation’s democratic governance, and that despite its branding, it is not about Indigenous Australians but rather is “a jobs program for race activists”.

Image via Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.