‘Settling petty scores’: Andrew Bolt slams Noel Pearson’s ‘nonsensical’ Voice speech

Yes campaigner Noel Pearson was “settling petty scores” or often “making no sense at all” during his National Press Club address, according to Sky News host Andrew Bolt.
“I have to say, Noel, if that vindictive and sometimes nonsensical speech is your best argument for the Voice? Dear god,” Mr Bolt said.
Mr Pearson spoke to the National Press Club on Wednesday as he explained how a vote in favour of the Voice referendum would be more beneficial.
Mr Pearson declared a Yes vote in the Voice to Parliament referendum would give Indigenous Australians the tools to take responsibility for their own “destiny”.
“This was a very pro-Voice crowd, very forgiving, and not one journalist there asked Pearson the key question,” Mr Bolt said.

[@johnd5953]

We see right through this bloke. Vote NO. Never give this bloke another cent.

[@sharonozvenom]

Noel’s finances need to be investigated .

[@elnielo1]

Id like to see a Royal Commission into Aboriginal funding. Where is the accountability??

[@bush2coast801]

Price and Kerrynne Liddle put up a Bill for an Audit and Labor, the Greens, Teals and some Crossbench voted it down... I wonder why ?

[@jackturpin7828]

There is none.

[@johnphelps9788]

@@bush2coast801 we know why, they dont want us to know the truth.

[@AlanBoddy-fl2qp]

Royal Commission with name blame and shame! Snouts in the trough 😡🙂🤠

[@elreyofbrisbane]

All abos piss it up against the wall

[@MrTilsner]

How about Pearson share some of his “Hard earned money” with his community, instead of holding out his hand to our feeble politicians, that just hand our money over.

[@tlb2970]

What about something constructive for a change, I bet he hasn’t been anywhere near the marginalised indigenous, just city elites. It’s an easy NO from me as was in the beginning

[@chrisruss9861]

It would be interesting to know what his community really thinks of him. Well off people are supposed to share in their culture.

[@LlywellynOBrien]

Honestly, do any of the three of you actually know literally anything about Pearson? At least read his bloody Wikipedia article. He is famously not a fan of welfare and certainly has not spent his life hanging out only with elites.

[@veenacriddle1207]

It's ridiculous. What's wrong with government just handing over our money with no follow up. It needs a good shake up!!

[@JoyMartin-rk4pm]

Good luck with that one. I want to know why it has not been questioned that he has all this money, and why the people it was meant for are no better off. That is just plain thievery.

[@actualfacts1055]

Noel came from the same con artists school as most Labor politicians.

[@kevinsmith3490]

Don’t you mean the same con artists school that ALL politicians went to?

[@gusman37]

Noel brings sticks and stones but the Australian voting taxpayers will bring their pens and ... Vote No ... Final 🇦🇺

[@flyonthewalltheatre]

Voting NO.. What a crook Pearson is.

[@mckenziehellenann]

Crook is understating this individual ..

[@benjaminthame4174]

When this cr@p is over Australia needs to have serious discussion about the complete abstract failure of Aboriginal institutions and the exorbitant costings. Having one system for the Aboriginals and one system for the rest of Australia is completely unworkable.

[@lillight4JC]

Not to mention the millions of dollars squandered on this thoughtless and purely divisive Referendum!!!!!

[@Ed_Downunder]

The real conversation can only happen with a Royal Commission, the 'Voice' referendum has paved the way for an investigation. This agenda driven by Jacinta Price and supported by the coalition will win Australia over. Australia will need to replace the failed experiment with Labour first.

[@every1665]

Exactly. Why not just distribute assistance based on need? Race should be irrelevant.

[@natalieritter107]

Totally agree audits need to happen immediately starting with Pearson

[@johnd5953]

And never forget the people peddling this divisional crap

[@erikleypoldt8275]

Give us a complete breakdown of exactly where, what and how much funding is provided already. Taxpayers deserve answers.

[@veenacriddle1207]

Definitely!! What disgusting management of our money!!

[@noelasandstrom9761]

Audits needed for last 10 years. It's taken this Voice dribble to expose the number of Aboriginal agencies and their lack of accountability. What about 4000 agencies at least just for non-Aboriginals? Australia is so racist against white people, it sickens me!!!

[@franmahy5782]

Yep urgent audit on noel marcia and burney

[@JoyMartin-rk4pm]

@ericleypoldt8275....An absolute right actually. It's our money.

[@daniellebcooper7160]

The last thing australia needs is empowering people like noel pearson through the Voice. An audit of the indigenous industry needs to be done before 'the gap' can start to close. I bet once an audit takes place, 'the gap', will begin closing by itself....as if by a miracle.

[@jackturpin7828]

An audit of the industry would also be an audit of the ALP so not much chance.

[@lindamansell7242]

If an audit was ever to be done would it be carried out by honest folk? Can’t help but wonder with all the corruption at play

[@lillysnet9345]

We need "the gap" to live. We can cross our legs and stand with our back to the wall, still other 7 gaps will be open.. 🙈🙉🙊 Ah... the irony of language...

[@jimbaker7277]

They hate being told their books should be audited. They can,'t explain were all money has gone! Most it would gone into their back pockets!!!

[@jackturpin7828]

Audit is a curse word to them. Highly offensive to their sense of entitlement. I woul like to see a reporter use it on Noel Pearson.@@jimbaker7277

[@cobar5342]

Pearson is a dangerous man. One that we pay a lot of money for.

[@veenacriddle1207]

They want retribution!! They have had it in spades , millions of dollars, land rights, . It will never end. A corrupt few elite filling their own pockets and not going to help those that need it. Listen to Jacinta Price. She has lived it. Speaks truth for all Australians. Wants a investigation into where all the billions have gone. Don't need a Voice to do it. Don't divide us, we are all equal .Don't make them forever victims.

[@molonlave6792]

Australia already has The Voice... 3,278 Aboriginal Corporations 243 Native Title Bodies 48 Land Councils 35 Regional Councils 122+ Aboriginal Agencies Advisory Boards 145 Health organisations 11 Indigenous Federal MP's 12 Culturally important Indigenous days Australian Taxpayers pay 33 Billion Dollars annually for 984,000 Indigenous people (3.8% of the population) Expenditure per person in (2012-2013) was $43,449 on Indigenous Australians compared to $20,900 on other Australians Australian taxpayers spend at least 100 Million PER DAY on direct support for Indigenous Australians which equates to approx $39.5 Billion of direct Govt expenditure.... The Voice is nothing more than a one way ticket to poverty for ALL homeowners. If the 3,984 Government funded bodies that represent the special needs of Aboriginal people don't provide a voice, nothing will! "So what is LYING MARXIST LABOR really up to???"

[@alijames180]

@@molonlave6792 ❤

[@denisbrown304]

It's in Pearsons interest to foster this Yes vote, after all he is a Lawyer and who does he represent. ever heard of jobs for the boys.

[@andrewgreen2726]

​@@molonlave6792At last! Someone who knows the facts. It's absolutely outrageous how much money the government is wasting on such a minority. What's more they don't appreciate it and continue to want more money 💰 This has got to stop 🛑 Vote NO and bring on a Royal Commission into this unfathomable WASTE of taxpayer funded handouts. Then, take care of the most vulnerable indigenous people, Not the ones with the biggest voices eager for something they don't deserve!

[@monteforae8077]

"i've been to the mountain top" - take your hand off it Noel.

[@pookeyhutchison7838]

Honestly this will go down as the worst speech ever at the lefty press club. The best was Jacinta Price.

[@dawnpatrol100]

Senator Jacinta Price is amazing, We are blessed she is in Parliament

[@murrayharvey-t1v]

Weak sad arse press present.

[@pookeyhutchison7838]

Honestly she would be elected in a heartbeat.@@dawnpatrol100

[@lindsaynordstrom6621]

A weird speech..

[@pookeyhutchison7838]

Just hate from his heart.@@lindsaynordstrom6621

[@willbell2339]

Pearson is so damn self righteous. He has betrayed his people. A thorough audit of the money please. Also, a criminal investigation into fraud. Pearson must be held accountable.

[@Kwesekara1672]

$550 million dollars is a hell of a lot of money just to go AWOL???

[@stephendavenport2325]

Definitely has tickets on himself

[@kimthorpe8202]

Couldn’t agree more… needs to be a thorough investigation

[@commentnotapproved1604]

Yea, just like they did to Poorline.....but she was guilty!

[@Kwesekara1672]

Guilty of what?

[@advanceaustralia3513]

Noel Pearson has become a very wealthy man from his activist grifting.

[@John-kv7jo]

Perhaps he should bow his knee to colonization.

[@Kwesekara1672]

@@John-kv7jodon’t hold your breath.

[@benjaminthame4174]

And he's done nothing for his so called community!

[@sallycent6598]

@@John-kv7joSeriously, this man should be encouraging the next generation of the Aboriginal to achieve their best to be successful people and not to divide them from the rest of Australians. You are still talking about the colonisation which has happened more than two hundred years. Why are you still blaming the two generations for the colonisation for something they have nothing to do with it.

[@allynhughes257]

Pearson is reported to have a personal wealth of $25Mil?

[@Fire.4Effect]

Maybe Noel could pop out to the APY Lands and spread some of his learned wisdom around. The school had to close this week because of tribal warfare between families.

[@polibard]

He should take a one way trip to GFY lands

[@gustaaf1892]

But they are peaceful people who have been destroyed by the white man!

[@garyjohnstone6422]

teachers ran out of town

[@stevewiles7132]

With that much money, the people up there should be living in 5 star resorts.

[@actualfacts1055]

They are.

[@marksakowski9272]

No to RACISM - no to "voice"!!!!!!!$50 billion (50 thousand of millions) dollars a YEAR, from your taxes to people like Pearson!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@AlanBoddy-fl2qp]

Trillions over the years ....your money to grifters like NP.and his like!

[@kevinsprunt6341]

For nothing!, if it wasn’t for the colonisation and the Billions of $ spent to keep them alive we wouldn’t have this problem, I feel sorry for the decent law abiding families who get tarred with the same brush.

[@craigparker4108]

keep it real it was 39.5 $Billion. I think much money laundering & corruption.

[@stevewiles7132]

Pearson wants to BE the voice.

[@Conky769]

Agreed. He has amassing ego and wants the crown. He is willing to manipulate anything.

[@John-kv7jo]

He wants more money and land, plain and simple. He's a liar and deceiver who has lined his own pockets at the expense of his community.

[@cobar5342]

He wants to be Chairman Pearson, Leader of the People's Republic of Australia

[@admincpt]

@@John-kv7jo Pearson is in it for Pearson,I think people are starting to see through him.

[@AlanBoddy-fl2qp]

I think he should try the TV VOICE singing competition.The public arent voting for this Voice candidate

[@Gusto0172]

I'd love to see Pearson debate Price. None of the aboriginal elites has got the guts and capacity to do so. Ditto our poor excuse for a PM.

[@ralphmogridge8364]

You can't argue with JP's idiocy!!

[@diannesmith2249]

He wouldn't have the intestinal fortitude to debate Jacinta,none of the yes people will.

[@patrickdowdle5121]

@@ralphmogridge8364 If you want idiocy proven , just reread your comment you posted

[@ralphmogridge8364]

@@patrickdowdle5121 again you can't argue with an idiot who believes their own lies!! The Noaliton would argue that the sky is green 😂😂🤣🤣

[@ralphmogridge8364]

@@patrickdowdle5121 you've proven my point exactly, what kind of dumb ass comment is that??

[@lesmotley6839]

I watched most of his speech and I'm surprised that 30% of people are stupid enough to vote yes. The more Noel speaks the more undecided votes are going to go to a No.

[@vpm7ginnie784]

Exactly.

[@haydenwalton2766]

he fills these city whites up with so much guilt, they don't even notice what a race baiter and a shake down artist he is.

[@enterpassword3313]

Most of the people i know are still voting yes, i understand their pattern of thinking pretty well. One part of it is an emotional thing, they feel guilty and they think the voice sounds nice. Another part is they are just not listening, they dont actually know what the no voters are saying, they only know what the yes voters are saying about no voters. But i think you are right, seems the most convincing reasons to vote no are accidentally coming from the yes camp

[@AlanBoddy-fl2qp]

​@@enterpassword3313Yes isnice friendly word NO a negative unfriendly one Ever tried saying NO to yer kids I.always feel guilty🙏😡

[@justvisitingterra6459]

LEAVE NOEL ALONE, HE HAS GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO BEING A SILENT MULTI- MILLIONAIRE, JUST LIKE THAT OTHER BLACKFELLA WAS, THEY DIDN'T EARN IT !, THE GOVERNMENT JUST DROPPED IT OFF AT THEIR DOORSTEP, ..... IT MUST BE A RESOUNDING NO, .... IN BIRO. SATT.

[@oldnutta7611]

Listening to Pearson is like listening to Kamala Harris without the cackling.

[@caroliner2029]

My thoughts exactly!😄 It's like he's been taking lessons.

[@helenlesley5456]

😂

[@RM-mm4jr]

Lol

[@orr4672]

It's a particular style of speech called bloviation: "a style of empty, pompous, political speech that originated in Ohio and was used by US President Warren G. Harding, who described it as "the art of speaking for as long as the occasion warrants, and saying nothing." His opponent, William Gibbs McAdoo, compared it to "an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea." From the verb bloviate: talk at length, especially in an inflated or empty way; to speak or write verbosely and windily: to speak in a pompous or overbearing way. Noel Pearson takes bloviating to a whole new level!

[@JoyMartin-rk4pm]

@@orr4672 That is very interesting.

[@jontwest]

Pearson wins the ‘Phoniest performance by a grifter ever’ award - which i hope sees his ahs kicked to the curb

[@MegaSelby]

Well Noel, if you’ve been listening for so long, decades, how come you haven’t fixed things by now?

[@michaels2846]

Brilliantly done Andrew. Was N.Pearson drunk during that speech?? It's about time N.Pearson got some scrutiny for his activities. He's been sponging off the taxpayer for decades - offering nothing but lies and contempt in return. Regards from Cairns, FNQ !

[@stevecam724]

One country One people One voice Vote NO to apartheid

[@Spaceshps]

Not going back to Jim Crow days. End Brits colonial rules by Vote 'YES'

[@stevecam724]

Vote YES to fund welfare support workers and unemployable university elitists. The current $37billion aboriginal budget is a welfare cash cow and the VOICE will be a goldmine for the indigenous industry. One country One people One voice Vote NO

[@Spaceshps]

@@stevecam724 No issues for Australia govt funding the wars in Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Vietnam that cost Australia taxpayers trillions of dollars and 'Life' for past decades. If Not for "YES VOTE" There will be no; - Civil Right movement, -No women rights in power, - No Israeli ever Exist as a Nation, Noel Pearson is the best since Martin Luther King Is well overdue Aboriginal Australia must take control of the lands like the Maori in NZ, Native American policing their states in US or South Affrica has their homeland and their national anthem!!

[@guenterbrook6749]

Yes. Can we please investigate if Mr P really did receive $550 million in funding and how it was disbursed to the 3700 population of Cape York? If there is corruption he should NOT be immune to prosecution.

[@craigparker4108]

He should welcome an investigation so he can show all this wonderful work he has done apparently.

[@Tyronepeader]

You are happy to take the word of notorious liars in Bolt and News Corpse on that? 😮😊

[@dawnpatrol100]

Did Noel Peterson make any sense or was it mumlbled BS with no meaning as it was to me. Senator Jacinta Price has my vote

[@peterlestrange9392]

Noel was beating off to the sound of his own voice, that's why he made no sense.

[@tompeacock9193]

No it made sense to me.

[@leonharrison800]

When the the No Camp make sense? Stop the lies. Price and Mundine, two Black Conservatives payed by the LNP to divide Australia. Disgusting.

[@lhallora1]

It is typical lefty speech: throw together a bunch of catch phrases into a word salad. Also, if he has been listening for decades why hasn't it worked?

[@leonharrison800]

@lhallora1 Typical bigoted comments attacking Pearson. Not that Bolt anything but a racist bigoted prick!!! Well done. Sky News will be impressed!!!!

[@Tyt55]

I want to see a forensic audit showing us tax payers where, how and to whom my hard earned tax dollars are going!

[@AlanBoddy-fl2qp]

Royal.Commision Outcome Albosleazy gone🤠😡

[@veenacriddle1207]

Yes to that!!!

[@JoyMartin-rk4pm]

This is yet more proof that no matter how much money is thrown at indiginous people, it will never be enough for them.

[@prescientselector3784]

What I would like to ask Mr Pearson is if the majority vote No, will he listen to the Voice of all Australians?

[@Tyronepeader]

You may have paid far too much credulity to News Corpse lies and be getting way ahead of yourself again. 😮😊

[@MeredithBell-v3f]

Like yunupingu Noel wants his bag of cash

[@martino2794]

What's the deal with the size of the room? If the press club approves of you it's the Big Room. Disapproval means the cleaning cupboard

[@sirsillybilly]

Noel wants to believe he is Martin Luther King Jr with a dream but comes across like Bill Cosby with a nightmare.

[@credenza1]

MLK's had a Christian vision about a humane society. NP's is a Marxist one about power for himself. Nothing he says can disguise his egotistic impulse.

[@Noreen-ce6xw]

This man is a disgrace, he should be thoroughly audited, the sooner the better

[@micsunshine9267]

Lets end welcome to country .

[@michaels2846]

Absolutely. Totally over this scam.

[@LlywellynOBrien]

Nah, let's keep it.

[@actualfacts1055]

He has such conviction about him, so does an axe murderer.

[@beachbum433]

His eyes look very similar to Jack Nicholson's in "The Shining", after he'd chopped a hole in the door...

[@timrohds750]

Can’t stand him!!!

[@subatomic10]

👏👏👏 Bravo again Bolt ! You dissected and destroyed his arguments for normal Aussies like me to understand

[@Barney_Rubble247]

Real divisive character Pearson.

[@WallsendChook]

Hang on a minute , you were just praising him on another article and that is why I said Barney had the lowest intelligence of the Flintstones???

[@WallsendChook]

It was the same speech by Pearson, so ok he is a Kamal II. With you all the way on Pearson, Cheers.@@michaelmcclure3383

[@Barney_Rubble247]

​@@WallsendChookAre you the full quid?

[@Tyronepeader]

Almost as bad as the infamous liars at News Corpse and their deranged fans. 😮

[@Tyronepeader]

​@@Barney_Rubble247Down Dino!

[@kathleenryan8545]

Throughout this whole Voice debacle I can honestly say I have not reached the level of anger despite the despicable behavior of many of the Yes side. I have been confused, and disgusted, but not angry, until now! Isn't it amazing that the big room at the press club suddenly becomes available for Noel Pearson, but wasn't available for Jacinta. All the tables with their fine white linen and the food and drinks is available for Noel, but not for Jacinta! How dare you Press Club, how dare you! Well I can tell you Press Club, people have very long memories, and this behavior won't be forgotten! As far as I am concerned I now look at people in the press through different eyes!

[@veenacriddle1207]

Well.said!!!

[@actualfacts1055]

Apparently Noel doesn't have a voice to talk to his good mate Linda Burney, he needs a mansion in Canberra to do that.

[@seaworldsocialartslecturer4160]

If Noel and Burnie spoke to each other it would be what opioid they've been subscribed.

[@veenacriddle1207]

Burney, langton, Pearson, Mayo, say no more!! Vote NO Jacinta Price for Prime Minister She has common sense and cares about all Australians

[@AlanBoddy-fl2qp]

Pearson trying to be an Oscar winning actor "ONLY LOVE can move us now!" Really drove me to tears .....of laughter.😭😭😁😁😁😁... What an amateur Conman! Be very AFRAID Australia 🥵we dont need this person anywhere near any more Taxpayers money! EMPHATIC NO (in 🖋️ pen)

[@fionaforward3358]

Noel has had a privileged life ,complements of white people.Private schooling and so on.Never heard him say Thankyou.

[@LlywellynOBrien]

What an absolutely unconscionable thing to say. I mean, it also goes to show you don't know Noel's thinking or public life from a bar of soap. If you listen, he expresses gratitude for his Christian upbringing, shared Western cultural inheritance and similar all the time. Listen to his last Boyer lecture.

[@dodgeboy9052]

He's like a. spoilt Brat from a wealthy family ...never grateful... never honest and played the Black card to his advantage .. never thanked anyone who got him the privileges ... while other tribal Aboriginal people suffer and left out at his wealth ..

[@johnwoodrow8769]

@@LlywellynOBrien Nonsense. The whole speech was predicated that ALL aboriginal people are victims and repressed by the decedents of British colonisers. He even went so far as to try and drag all multicultural immigrants into this racist picture he was trying to fabricate. This guy will say anything and different times, he completely lacks integrity. A couple years ago its was don't burden aboriginal people with '"the soft bigotry of low expectations". Today all aboriginal people are hopeless trapped victims of 'white people'.

[@margaretchrystal1828]

@@LlywellynOBrienyou don’t either

[@LlywellynOBrien]

@@margaretchrystal1828 I am certainly no expert on him and wouldn't claim to be, but I know enough to know that this comment is wrong.

[@seandelap8587]

Vote no Australia

[@wilburgraham6260]

Another day off, gee that boss must be so lenient 🤔🤣

[@gloriapascoe2614]

​@@wilburgraham6260buzz off USA 🇺🇸

[@gloriapascoe2614]

I will be voting YES. Thank you

[@beachbum433]

Good on you...!!! No-one gives a damn what you vote, it's no-one's business but yours. Bruce's relative are we????..@@gloriapascoe2614

[@craigfrith7024]

@@gloriapascoe2614 Your elevator doesn’t reach the penthouse does it.

[@saqaleka]

Noel wants to be King of the Aboriginal Empire

[@steventurner8428]

Some of us out here do have the love, the love for Mr Pearson. The love for everything he stands for. We would love to have him join us on holidays to Cahills Crossing and if we are lucky maybe we could watch the crocodiles love him to.

[@knight2425]

Do you have the same love he has to throw racist remarks at his own people?

[@markspalding6092]

Pearson with the violin out, looking for the sympathy vote. $550 million, geez, that’d cover a hell of a lot of long lunches &business class air travel. Talk about snouts in the trough

[@actualfacts1055]

How much will the Voice executives get paid, oh the Voice will work that out.

[@credenza1]

According to the Statement, they demand salaries commensurate with elected politicians - and all the other perks no doubt. Possibly more. The Voice would be a vast and permanent money pit for elite activists. .

[@LlywellynOBrien]

Nope, it'd be set by Parliament.

[@mikem9001]

@@LlywellynOBrien You mean by Albo. In any case, Parliament's powers will be limited by the enshrining of the Voice in the constitution. Parliament will be unable to make the Voice accountable. The purpose of the Voice is to silence those like Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine who actually care about their communities, and who call out our current corrupt Aborginal Welfare Industry and the city elites, black and white, who make all the money off it.

[@mckenziehellenann]

No doubt Albo will get an invoice after the 14th October for fares,campaigning etc.etc

[@actualfacts1055]

@@mckenziehellenann Accommodation in 5 star properties for the entire lead up to the referendum for the 24 odd of Burney's mates and their hanger on's dining in top restaurants.

[@michaelconnolly4382]

Pearson, softly spoken foul mouthed t..d!

[@Conky769]

Noel's voice really makes my skin crawl.

[@fionaforward3358]

He comes across as ignorant and arrogant and very insincere.He as feathered his own nest.Where did that 550 million go Noel.?I have never heard a Thankyou from this man.Why does he wear that stupid hat.A thoroughly unpleasant man.

[@lindamansell7242]

He makes my skin crawl

[@Tyronepeader]

That's the way with raging Skynuts, they just hate non-stop 24×7. 😮😊

[@mikem9001]

@@Tyronepeader The unelected Voice will not represent indigenous people, and is not intended to solve their issues. The purpose of the Voice is to silence those like Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine who actually care about their communities, and who call out our current corrupt Aborginal Welfare Industry and the city elites, black and white, who make all the money off it.

[@mckenziehellenann]

Agree.. He's a bit creepy

[@stephenwinter5988]

Noel Pearson needs some serious scrutiny.

[@josephwallis8965]

Noel, Noel, you are asking me to vote for Love, what, out of fear ?? It does not work

[@johnlovett6704]

Vote No. No more money for N.Pearson to fill his treasure chest.

[@stephenpercy4643]

There should be a commission of enquiry into where all these dollars go -- $550 million for 3700 people?? And just the tip of the iceberg! And the reason we need a whole new bureaucracy built is because of rheumatic heart disease???

[@theveganpony]

Non-sensical is the only way to describe the speech.

[@MarkForbes-dr4ie]

Pearson,Albanese,Langdon,Mayo all have to go,get rid of Labour and find out were the money's going.

[@LLL_Carnivore4Life]

Funding has already been handed out to indigenous organisations at the start of September for rheumatic fever, and heart disease. So we don’t need a Voice, the Government has already actioned it.

[@citizengkar1811]

Where is the financial accountability for the money paid to these bodies responsible for improving the quality of life for aboriginal’s etc? Why aren’t we getting objectively measurable improvements in health outcomes, improved living standards, quality of life and safer living conditions, educational outcomes and employment engagement? You don’t need constitutional changes to do this… this has been done and made available for everyone in Australia for decades.

[@veenacriddle1207]

Can you imagine the corruption if the Voice got up!! Very scary!!

[@RoyMunson-o5n]

If it wasn’t for colonialism, Pearson wouldn’t have a law degree and be able to communicate with Australian people. That’s a benefit !

[@deniserothwell6325]

550 million! Where the hell is it!

[@leewright7623]

If their were any regular self respecting Australians in that crowd, there would be much laughter at Noel’s nonsensical rhetoric 😂😂😂😂

[@cameronjohnston5748]

If this voice gets up Pearson needs to be moved to a faraway place so the money can be accounted for properly.

[@lindamansell7242]

If this voice gets up the money will never be accounted for

[@credenza1]

He will be too busy consulting in the design of the plush new buildings, with a throne for himself.

[@PEB-i9v]

It was so funny when this man said that out in Wilcannia the indigenous might have conversations in "BARNS". We don't have 'BARNS in Wilcannia mate - we have SHEDS. BARNS are American. This is a simple example that this bloke has been in the city for too long.

[@RM-mm4jr]

You are SO RIGHT!

[@JimMcCrudden-w6g]

Spot on, same in Moree. Actually, the term ‘barn’ is mis-used in egg production to con the Greenies that the chooks have a happy life wandering around “barns” (which conjures dirt floors, high roofs, and hay bales everywhere.) these ‘barns’ are purpose built sheds with water laid on.

[@Ellen-nx2sw]

or he is getting his rhetoric from the 'black lives matter' activists.

[@GaryHuntington-m3p]

Where has this money gone😡

[@davo-ju6er]

Noel’s like hearing his own voice that’s for sure.

[@robertcrooks8143]

this bloke is good for the no campaign

[@kathrynletchford5114]

We need an AUDIT, NOW, into where the dam money has gone, and bank accounts emptied, back into the budget.

[@destinyangel5]

Im defiantly voting No .

[@annann4786]

Is he for real? If I’d ever consider voting yes, after listening to him is definitely NO

[@janetcording9183]

Don’t tell me the Reno’s are finished and Noel gets the grand restaurant dinner - not like the hallway area that Jacinta got with a few chairs hastily thrown in a semi circle

[@garrycameron1795]

Waren got the same as Jacinta, is there a trend happening here?

[@lindamansell7242]

So blatant Defund the ABC

[@fstop9466]

The people want an Audit into the 38 billion, not a dividing referendum but even that is a bridge to far.

[@jamiechippett1566]

Accountability! Seeya noal just like dan andrews. Record says it all. Bye bye noal.✋

[@Mrbullet1952]

It might be well overdue to investigate the personal wealth of Noel Pearson, Langton et al. They just may find where some of the money went. But, I'm not suggesting there was corruption, BUT where did the money go ?

[@beachbum433]

Royal Commission into the lot of them. And into the ABC while we are about it....

[@kimyoung4554]

This man is not disadvantage. Follow the money.😮😮

[@fionaforward3358]

Why was Jacinta put in a back room to give her speech to the press club,yet this rude old man in a hat is given the hall?

[@AlanBoddy-fl2qp]

They should have put him in a cupboard locked the door and thrown away the key Disgraceful pygmy of a man 🤠💪

[@veenacriddle1207]

Exactly!!!!

[@philipgibbs5751]

He can see those sweet, sweet dollars $$$ slipping away

[@every1665]

I feel sorry for the decent indigenous people who are happy to live in the 21st century, work if possible and raise decent children. They are, at best, ignored by 'leaders' like Pearson and at worst, reviled as traitors. They are truly the way forward but the race activists can't make money from them and so they are mostly ignored. I respect and admire them.

[@dawneevon]

Noel Pearson and the other Blaktavists call any hard working, law abiding Aboriginal a 'COCONUT' 😮

[@garyjohnstone6422]

yet they also live like white men

[@veenacriddle1207]

Yes the same old corrupt activists running the voice, doing nothing to help those in need,but filling their own pockets, forever demanding more,$$$$ spitting racist venom, dividing us and disrupting our democracy with endless exspensive court cases. We don't have a bottomless pit of money. This country will.go to the wall!!!! Who cares about the 97% of us struggling now with high inflation. No one. We will be forever forgotten.

[@veenacriddle1207]

Me too!!

[@jmcham1000]

Noel is a multi millionare so now he just wants power

[@mattd4616]

Noel Pearson speaks of love etc. but he has only hate and vengeance in his heart and mind.

[@Tyronepeader]

Certainly the latter's true of most ranting Skynuts on here. 😮😊

[@burglar42]

And REPARATIONS

[@mattd4616]

You imbecile hahahaha

[@mikem9001]

@@Tyronepeader The unelected Voice will not represent indigenous people, and is not intended to solve their issues. The purpose of the Voice is to silence those like Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine who actually care about their communities, and who call out our current corrupt Aborginal Welfare Industry and the city elites, black and white, who make all the money off it.

[@MoosesValley]

The Australian People should demand a lot more transparency and accountability from all levels of government from local councils up to the Federal Government and on all sides of politics. All levels of government are massively in debt. They keep introducing more rules and regulations and red tape at every opportunity. We need to know where the money is going. We need to stop councils and governments from going into debt unless there is an extremely good reason for going into debt, and only as long as the debt is manageable and will be paid off asap.

[@PowhiroMus]

Australia has a vibrant democracy and technically, it is over-represented proportionality by Parliamentarians that identify as Indigenous. So what is Albo's mob saying? Does Australia need another system of representatives governance? Are Parliamentarians, Lower House or Senate, paid heaps for doing nothing? Are elected representatives ignored? So what is the issue? Are elected Indigenous representatives ignored? Or is it something else? It is not money, so what is the problem? No-one has articulated that except Senator Price!

[@lindamansell7242]

They want to keep the victim hood going to line their own corrupt pockets

[@veenacriddle1207]

Why doesn't the govt listen and audit where all the moneys going. Do your job!! You don't just hand out billions of dollars and not follow through on where it's all going. That's just common sense.

[@veenacriddle1207]

Yes, they need to do their job. They already know and voice the problems , so get on with it, listen and act!! You don't need a voice to get things done. That will only divide us and cost us millions more and huge disruption and costly law suits.

[@lillight4JC]

Excellent reporting, as always, Andrew. What a shame you couldn't have been present at the National Press Club to raise all these important points with Noel Pearson, in person! Take care. Keep up your great work. 😊

[@graham3592]

I can only vote No. I just can't see the voice suddenly solving all the issues. There must be a better way. And yes, it is important to know where the financial support is going.

[@riverbend100]

This letter was written by an ordinary Australian (who shall remain nameless) about ‘The Voice' referendum. I believe it probably sums up pretty well the views of the 'quiet Australians' who don't answer telephone polls and remain quiet for fear of being accused of being racist: I was born in Australia fifty-four years after the Australian Commonwealth was formed in 1901. Australia is my country as much as it is the country of any other person who was born here. I haven’t stolen anyone's land. I have purchased legal title to the land I own and have paid it off with the sweat of my brow. To be forced to pay a reparation tax as rent or a special land tax on my land is abhorrent to me. My paternal grandfather was shot through both legs fighting to defend this nation; my great-grandfather was killed by a shell in the same struggle. My maternal grandfather and two great uncles on both sides gave up four years of their lives to defend Australia against the Germans, who had colonised New Guinea, New Britain, New Ireland, Bougainville and Samoa. Twenty-five years later, the Japanese invaded these countries. My mother served in Bougainville, patching up Aussies who had been shot by the Japanese. My father and two paternal/maternal uncles gave up six years of their lives to fight off the Germans and Japanese, with Dad spending three-and-a-half years as a POW in Germany and coming back weighing eight stone. Every road, building, home, farm, mine, school, hospital, airport, port, railroad, city and town that exists in Australia was built by European settlers and their descendants. Hunter/gatherer Aborigines built nothing prior to 1788 and have contributed very little to modern Australia. Their hunter/gatherer lifestyle became redundant after European farming and technology arrived here and as the benefits of the first and second industrial revolutions spread through the 19th and 20th centuries. Today, no one in the world chooses to live a hunter/gatherer lifestyle. Now that the Australian nation has been developed, some aboriginal activists want to take control of it. They are not content to have an equal say in government with the rest of us Australian citizens. They claim they deserve more power, in perpetuity, because some of their ancestors were born here prior to 1788. They label anyone who disagrees with them a racist. What chutzpah! As currently proposed, 'The Voice' is a blatant con job to replace the government of the people, by the people, for the people, with a race-based veto on everything we do. This will be exercised by twenty-four unelected Aboriginal activists supposedly representing the 3% of the population who claim Aboriginal descent. The effective veto comes from the power of the Voice to delay or hinder the government through the threat of litigation. Votes in parliament will be traded for the support of the Voice in return for other programs or legislation favourable to the activists who dominate the Aboriginal Voice. In this way, the Voice will be a shadow government able to make demands of the executive, the parliament, the public service and independent statutory offices and agencies not available to any other Australian citizens. It offends the crucial democratic principle that everyone should be equal before the law. Less than one-third of the 3% of the population who claim Aboriginal descent are living dysfunctional lives in remote areas. We Australians spend $39.5 billion each year trying to fix this problem. The solution is straightforward, although not easy. These Aboriginals need to limit their alcohol intake, provide a stable environment for their kids, and ensure they go to school. Do this every day for twenty years, and the gap between the dysfunctional Aboriginals and the rest of us will disappear. We don’t need to change our constitution for this to happen. Not only am I fed up with being welcomed to my own country, I find the implication in the 'Welcome to Country' ceremony and in the proposed 'Voice' that I and my family are somehow not entitled to be here as equal, legitimate Australian citizens offensive and insulting. I acknowledge the early settlers who came to this land which had stood undeveloped for over 50,000 years and who, in less than two hundred years, transformed it into one of the richest countries on Earth. Together, let’s enjoy and build on the legacy they left us.

[@debbiewolstenholme3208]

Hi. You deserve a standing ovation for this letter. Its Bold Gutsy and Speaks the ABSOLUTE TRUTH. And I feel exactly the same way about all this crappy stuff going on. ITS GODS COUNTRY............. ALWAYS WAS ....... AND ALWAYS WILL BE.

[@stephenpercy4643]

So true! when half your family dies defending the country over the English Chanel or in New Guinea or further back, in Gallipoli itself, and then have to be welcomed to country is a mocking dark stain -- reflecting especially on the Canberra race-baiters, grifters and charlatans who helped introduce it all! -- -- -- -- to put it lightly!!

[@veenacriddle1207]

Well said!!

[@mariagrant2072]

I read your comments all the way through- brilliant and telling 👍🏻 I 🙏🏼more people take the time read it and know this the truth of our country today ❤️🇦🇺

[@michaelnicholson8926]

When are they going to Audit this mob!!!

[@zaneblack1132]

😂Go Bolt

[@Tyronepeader]

Going thoroughly under in the Referendum is where bogus Bolt is likely to end up. 😮😢😊😅

[@mikem9001]

@@Tyronepeader if you really care about indigenous people, you will vote NO in the referendum. And you will support Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine calling for a thorough investigation and reform of the bloated corrupt Indigenous Welfare industry.

[@guffawersyd5582]

The irony is a bitter and angry Pearson who has been shown up by other indigenous people. Mundine and Price have Pearson in their wake. The political class is preparing us for a massive hissy fit.

[@Tyronepeader]

You are wallowing in a sea of News Corpse lies and propaganda. The IPA and LNP stooges, Mundine and Price have largely angry white racist support behind them. Hence your clamouring for them. Have a wonderful losing Referendum. 😮😊

[@peterlestrange9392]

His speech is as good as his acting. One can certainly expect heart disease when bad habits and a poor life style by choice is chosen as a path of lifestyle.

[@adidog6243]

Just imagine the 'CommitteeOcracy' with Parliamentary wages, along with the Lurks and Perks. Then of course, there's bound to be a 'Department of the Voice'.

[@credenza1]

The first six months would be focused on architectural consultations, interior design and furnishings, commissioning artworks, arranging overseas study tours, vehicle leases and media appearances.

[@simonchallenor1006]

there goes another few points off the Yes vote, should be in the 20s soon

[@christopherwalker283]

Listened to the "Seekers" last appearance singing "We are Australian" this should be the music we listen to in opposition to "the Voice"

[@JohnWilliams-iw6oq]

Another layer to government and another layer of bureaucrats, yep that'll fix things. Get the kids to school, black and white, and get adults working for the dole even if it's only cleaning up their own mess and perhaps then we'll see an improvement for all poor and disadvantaged Australians.

[@jimbaker7277]

As it gets closer to Voting day on the Voice you now see the HATE coming from the YEs camp towards the NO Camp .Vote NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@UNDERCOVER4825]

They simply lie, that’s the greatest disease of the times.

[@Tyronepeader]

Yes it's lies, lies and more lies all the way from News Corpse. But they can get expensive as in the U.S. recently. 😮😊

[@mitchmccarron8337]

Big shout-out to Warren Entsh, he helped me big time when I was in Cairns & being treated unfairly by DHS / Centrelink. I reckon there's a bloody good reason he's held his seat in Parliament for so long and I, for one, salute this man. Mitch, Victoria.

[@johnblackstock4092]

Just give me more money. Just give me money. I will be happy with more and more money. That's what it sounds like to me.

[@RogerWard-en6ys]

NO thanks, very confusing, NO it's not surprising, NO NO NO

[@edwardbec9844]

Here's a Question for Pearson to Answer " What happened to the Half a Billions Dollars given to Your York Peninsula Organization were there any Tangible result.. What is the Aboriginal Industry Hiding from the Australian Taxpayers that are Funding these Organizations to the Tune of 40 Billion Per Annum another Possible ASTIC Corruption at the Highest Level therefore a Royal Commission should be Called Immediately..

[@FuzzyBearYT]

Surely there are laws that force Pearson to PROVE where the $550m went, since it IS or was public money. And if he cannot, there should be serious jail time. Every public corporation has to be audited. I am guessing the numbers are buried deep in the commonwealth accounts. But that really isn't good enough. Someone must ALWAYS be held accountable, ad they MUST show what the money achieved. You can do a helluva lot with $550m.

[@ronniexx9743]

How did a man who worked "every day, every year" in the community, acquire a $5 mill in wealth??.