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When Stan Grant complains that the Voice was “so inoffensive people found it easy to say No to,” all he does is demonstrate that he still doesn’t get it!

If they reckon this is their country, that Australians have acted shamefully, and they are not interested in being part of our nation, then I reckon it’s time to stop indulging their failures, and they should pay for their Voice themselves.

We live in a divided world, from the conflict in the Middle East to the defeated Voice to Parliament. As I’ve thought about the various issues, here are 10 of my reflections on the Voice, and on the Israel situation.

Various emotions have followed the failed 2023 referendum. Indigenous Christian leaders give their reflections on the referendum and offer a way forward for the country.

Advocates de-platforming an Aboriginal Elder’s voice, while simultaneously platforming an Aboriginal Voice to Parliament, says it all.

There was no draft legislation to lay out what a Voice would look like, what it could and couldn't do, and whether its members would be elected or selected. Rightly, Australians' good sense raised multiple worries as the Yes campaign proceeded.

It beggars belief that the overwhelming public rejection of the proposal to create a Voice within the Federal Constitution has not resulted in the SA Parliament removing this structure from the State Constitution.

We have an opportunity now for a change of direction in race relations in Australia, and we need to make it a positive change.

Australia emphatically rejected enshrining an Indigenous Voice to Parliament advisory body in the constitution at the weekend’s referendum, with a 60/40 split for No vs. Yes.

The Australian Capital Territory was the only jurisdiction in the country where a majority of Australians voted for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

The media has talked for months about enshrining the Voice to Parliament and Executive Government into the constitution. A shrine is something you worship at. What are we meant to worship?

In the end, this referendum is a referendum about Australia. What sort of a country do you think we are? The authors of the Voice are putting to us that we are essentially a racist country...

I appreciate your passion, Rev. Costello, in prosecuting your case for the ‘Yes’ campaign. But all things considered, I believe my duty as a Christian is to vote ‘No’.

The ‘Yes’ campaign continues to believe they can persuade people to support an Indigenous Voice to Parliament by abusing them.

Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard launched the ‘Yes’ campaign in London overnight as 160,000 expats began voting in the referendum.

The Uluru Statement envisages that with “substantive constitutional change and structural reform”, “two sovereignties [can] co-exist”.

The Uluru Statement makes use of the term “spiritual sovereignty”, which “serves as the rallying point of those who want to entrench the Voice in the Constitution”.

The Albanese Labor Government’s hypocrisy about promoting ‘a voice’ is utterly disgraceful. They have shown themselves to be totally incapable of hearing what the Indigenous people are saying or speaking about.

I am voting ‘No’ to the Voice because of the pagan culture that the proponents of the Voice are seeking to impose on Australian society.

This paper aims to assist Sydney Anglicans in understanding and taking seriously the case for voting ‘yes’ in the planned referendum this year.