The Voice: Five More Problems | John Anderson

[@williammaxwell1919]

Australia only has to look at NZ and the mess the Waitangi Tribunal has made. NZ is purportedly more divided now on racial lines than it ever has been.

[@shrimpsqndwich]

But also has significantly less divide in terms of money and health…

[@sisiphas]

And nothîng is getting better for Maori except for the grifters

[@gusman37]

I my family's and friends will be ...Voting No ... Final ... We are the builders and taxpayers who funds this country for all Australians as a ... Collective 🇦🇺 .🙏

[@pastorofmuppets8834]

Ah yes, and didn't benefit from the crimes against humanity that the English committed and then Australians committed for over 200 years. Keep your boot on their neck eh?

[@karenvecsei4217]

Australia made you wealthy! What did you and your Family give back to Australia? Truth Telling You and your Family are Migrants from another Country and have the belief that You and your Family can be in the Constitution but not Aboriginals.. Disagree.

[@williamgilbert3686]

There’s black peoples working all over this country & paying taxes to, what about the other 10 million people working, your full of it.

[@gusman37]

@@williamgilbert3686 yes your right, their are a few thousand specialists blacks milking taxpayers monies funding for so called special Indigenous programs only the mobs can access thats failed time and time again costing Australian taxpayers billions 😉 ... No accountability needed

[@karenvecsei4217]

@@williamgilbert3686 Yes All Black Migrants Costs Supplied by Federal Government State Government and Local Government Three Governments Agencies Funding????? Immigrations Change of Visas. Seven Months employment in Australia and Black Migrants become White Citizens of Australia and UN the Australian Constitution. Black Indians and Africans have been hand given jobs by the Government. The British "White Australia" was Black Italians and Greeks. Let's not forget the Voting for Sexualised Predator Paedafile Behaviour of Kids at early age which had lead to the Plemaside Only One Political had Morals and didn't "cross the floor" Black Maori Partner who lived off me and Australia since 1980 Surname COOPER Any relation GILBERT

[@kwityarbichen7749]

I saw an Aboriginal Elder, who's a Constitution Solicitor, who said she's voting NO. That said it all.

[@AnthonyRooney-be2tx]

Our national Anthem Wording For we are One And Free th At being the Case Let's Leave it At that No Need For Any voting

[@AnneSmith-lr7cp]

So you cherry picked the one person who aligned with the decision you'd already made, good going champ 🙄

[@auscaliber1]

@alexhills38 that person stole nothing. no one alive did. not to mention every single culture in the history of the earth has had territory gained and lost. aboriginal nation borders got there somehow too. so, why should ethnicity give you more say in a free democratic country? maybe we should move forward as one people, not look over our shoulders for all time.

[@leephilips3669]

​@alexhills38 no one stole anything we pay our taxes and I paid for my land... And my taxes goes towards paying for their extras they get already.. There are alot of cultures in this country who pay taxes to go towards infrastructure and roads ect.. We owe nobody nothing..

[@matton36]

@alexhills38 We didnt steal anything, the aboriginals stole the land from the Australian pygmy so this place was never the aboriginals to begin with. More than that, this is why we will vote no, because you clearly want reparations which is flat out stealing.

[@lesmotley6839]

Thank you. How do we get the truth about the voice out to everyone. Anyone voting yes doesn't understand the question.

[@kaylenehousego8929]

Great way to illustrate this most excellent point .

[@davecook3539]

VOTE NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO....ALbo will have our kids and future generations paying for this garbage for many years to come....

[@karlm9584]

They need to do their own research and not be mindless NPCs, and read the full Uluru statement, not just the pretty cover sheet that Albo holds up and says it is. All will become clear. If they read the meeting notes it will become even clearer.

[@kaylenehousego8929]

Then vote NO.@@karlm9584

[@James-kv6kb]

Unfortunately there's a lot of people think that by saying yes they're no longer responsible for Australia's history even though we're not . They don't understand the corruption of the white Aborigines that are not giving any money to the full bloods in the bush only using them when they're doing a fundraising drive. These people would rather be told what to think than actually do any research themselves

[@richardlove4287]

NO, NO, NO, NO,….. that’s the way my friends and family are voting simply because we are not racists.

[@banta-pd8zj]

Congratulations. In voting no you've inadvertantly agreed with every nazi, neo fascists and white supremacist group in the country. So what were you saying about never wanting to be a racist? You do realise the irony of your position don't you?

[@pastorofmuppets8834]

Hahahaha yes, I'm sure you have a "friend" who knows an Aboriginal person. Somewhere.

[@banta-pd8zj]

I have no idea why you would say anything about "friends". You realise your invented opposition to my observation is a classic example of a straw man argument. I stand by my statement that it is the racists who routinely argue for disempowerment of aboriginal rights. The Voice to Parliament is NOT racist in any way.

[@richardlove4287]

@@pastorofmuppets8834 , nope…I’m just not racist.

[@richardlove4287]

@@banta-pd8zj , anything that puts one race above another is blatant racism…you should think before you speak.

[@kaylenehousego8929]

Thank you for your thoughtful clarity John Anderson and God bless you in all that you do .

[@kaylenehousego8929]

NO !@@snarkywombat155

[@mrj7225]

​@@snarkywombat155 God has nothing to do with politics in China and North korea, see how that's working out for the people.

[@stephenkeough7975]

Concise, to the point and factual, I just hope that people share is information so they just don't vote on emotion. Thank you Mr. Anderson for doing the research for your fellow Australians.

[@ozzyace71]

Yep get this out to everyone you know

[@fingerprint5511]

Name one human on earth who doesn't make a decision based on emotion and I present to you a robot 😅 foolish child!

[@sisiphas]

I hate to say this but Anthony Albanese is the biggest gaslighter who has ever been Prime Minister of Australia. I am so embarrassed that I voted for the ALP for decades. I was sooo very wrong, Albanese has simply put tbe icing on the cake of my increasing distrust, even disgust, for the ALP that had started to develop under Rudd. I always respected you, John Anderson, as a thoughtful, open, fair National Party member. My respect for you has only increased over time, and you are a very good podcaster and interviewer. Thank you for your analyses of the Voice.

[@tadstertrolley7770]

Ditto, I'm ashamed i voted for them, between the voice and vastly increased immigration, he will trash the country. Morrison and his corrupt cronies did have to go, and potato head isn't any better.

[@banta-pd8zj]

As soon as Labor puts an aboriginal agenda at the top of the list that's it. Totally unacceptable. Nothing to discuss here. So you're off to where exactly. Off to vote for a biased heir to the squattocracy, a man with incompatible political agendas when it comes to empowering aborigines?

[@David_dickinson]

Yeah, excactly. I received the yes brochure today. It’s was gaslight writing all the way through it. 1. The word yes was stated 3 times in the first 3 sentences. Which alarmed me. 2. Then reading it, the “yes” pages was all positive titles. And the no page had negative titles. Another red flag. I would rather boring even positive and negative writing. 3. Lastly the entire campaign encourages you to say yes. And your anti aboriginal if you don’t vote yes. There is always a catch and like a loan from the bank, say yes to the money but pay it back with interest.

[@MsAussieSheila]

I come from a long line of staunch Labor voters. Over the past ten years we have got to the point where not one will still vote Labor. I have hold my nose to vote liberal but I do. There is no alternative left.

[@banta-pd8zj]

Certainly, vote for the party that ultimately wants to eliminate your super and national health scheme, make sure that collective bargaining is dead, by people who collectively act to rob you in collusion with liberal support. I give you the Royal Commission into Banking which the Liberals actively opposed. A party that rorted the public purse and once discovered went back to it in a heartbeat. Wasn't Michaelia Cash rewarded with the role of Leader if the Senate for her loyalty in robbing you? I could go on all day in this vein but get this. Give aborigines favour in a our poltical and social system that has robbed them for centuries and the world as we understand it is going to collapse around our heads? You effing bigots and hypocrites. A pox on you all.

[@lollypop2413]

I Vote NO TO A DIVISIVE BLANK CHEQUE

[@kayleneemery8217]

Me too !

[@banta-pd8zj]

You could however vote yes and use your democratic rights in the formulation of much needed reconciliation. Not an option?

[@mikefuller8968]

@@banta-pd8zjand how do you think that can happen? The parliament is labor dominated, with the other hangers on, and they can write the legislation in any way they may feel like doing. You, me and everyone else will be left out of it and at the mercy of politicians, who essentially have us by the short and curlies, whether we like it, or not.

[@karenvecsei4217]

​@@banta-pd8zjYes. This is possible

[@hybridgoth]

@@banta-pd8zj one could also vote no, and, with the same vigor use their democratic rights to advance the move towards reconciliation. This amendment can best be described as vague and non-transparent, without clear limitations and boundaries, to be defined only after implementation. It doesn't make a great deal of sense to vote to implement something that "may or may not" be what it appears. Reconciliation is a serious issue, the Voice as it has been submitted to us has no determined goals, and, as such may well deliver nothing more than an expensive headache. I for one would be happy to vote yes if the terms of such an arrangement were clear in their intention, with logical and sound reasoning to advance the constitutional framework, however, It is unfortunately the case that the current government wishes to use this as a political bargaining chip. The idea that, "if the Voice to Parliament be heard" all will be well again, is a seemingly well intentioned farce.

[@Invictus357]

The VOICE of reason. This voice to parliament, will give less than 1%, of 1%, of the 3% of the Australian population enormous power without being voted into this power over 99.9% of the overall population of Australia. Albo, know’s exactly what the voice will do, and so does every other labor politician, that’s why they have been silent on its contents. If you want to see division in this country, then go ahead and vote Yes. But if you don’t want division in this country, vote No! I will be voting NO to the voice.

[@pastorofmuppets8834]

Hmmmm yet the original inhabitants of Australia didn't get a vote when 100% of them were targeted and a program of extermination was government policy, and then they weren't even given the vote until only a few decades ago. Keep the status quo!!

[@spikey8085]

Why do we need hopeless political parties who don't know what they doing 🤔 we need to wake and unite not divide Australia's . Albanisi is puppet we don't trust government they're not listening and serving people who are paying their taxes . His main concern is Ukraine shame on him because he don't care about us

[@LlywellynOBrien]

Oh yes, the enormous power of offering advice. I'm trembling!

[@user-fm9zl6mc3w]

@@LlywellynOBrienthe thing is, once you make it about race, disagreeing with the advice of The Voice won’t be seen as just ideological disagreement, but a racial attack, an attack on the Indigenous community as a whole since they are supposed to be representatives of the entire community. Can you not see how this could potentially be weaponised? Or cause division? Or be harmful to the indigenous people themselves?

[@LlywellynOBrien]

@@user-fm9zl6mc3w Hey mate, I don't think that makes a load of sense. The very video we're commenting on is one part of a massive campaign against the Voice which includes two of our major political parties and our wealthiest media powerbrokers. All of this against a proposal which has been requested by Australia's Indigenous community. To my mind this shows that there is no lack of willingness to push back on such requests. Why would that be different after a Voice was created? If the Voice give advice that is deeply unpopular, it won't be implemented by the government of the day. Beyond this, to be frank, a hypothetical future in which we are too willing to listen to the views of Indigenous Australians on matters relevant to them doesn't really get too high on my worry list. Clearly the status quo isn't working, so why not try an idea that has every possibility of helping?

[@leepd1]

And i would add.. this referendum has (finally..) highlighted the utter failure of the institutions already in place that have not closed the gap for the indigenous.. therefore, how can more bureaucracy possibly fix these issues? We have to face the reality that old cultural practices need to be confronted and bought into the 21st century.. its the elephant in the room that no one wants to face, and nothing will change til change til that happens.

[@banta-pd8zj]

Has it not occurred to you that this is a radical shift to solve seemingly intractable problems? The Voice is a call to partnership. Absolutely not worth a try where everything and everyone has failed? This is a work in progress. And if it should fail. Would nothing be learnt?

[@leepd1]

@@banta-pd8zj I wouldn't call more bureaucracy a "radical shift", as you've put it.. i see it more of the same that has not, up til this point been remotely scrutinised.. and now that these institutions are being looked at, we are finding that they are inept and failing.. begging the question as to why this is happening.. the whole yes campaign is based on the false idea that nothing has been done for these communities, when the truth is quite the opposite.. successive labor and liberal governments have poured hundreds of billions into this issue and we still havent fixed it.. and i'll politely point out that by ignoring the cultural issues that are endemic in the Aboriginal communities, you are only validating my last point.. as John Anderson has pointed out here, we have no real detail beyond symbolic rhetoric, which guarantees it will fail, leaving us all with the same problems.. its time to wake up to reality.

[@AuntieFloTravels]

@@banta-pd8zjThe Voice can legislated. It doesn’t need to be in the Constitution.

[@banta-pd8zj]

This is true. SA proved it. However I'm on the side of the first people who are still being treated like animals for over 200 years. When they are asking for recognition in the foundation document of the country I believe they have just cause to do so.

[@leepd1]

@@banta-pd8zj Most agree with recognition in the constitution, including the conservatives.. but when it comes to dealing with the ongoing issues, particularly in the remote areas, the question has to be asked about why this isn't being fixed.. more bureaucrats in Canberra is not the answer, as each individual issue has to be dealt with locally.. and its going to mean some serious soul searching from the community themselves.. they are human like the rest of us, and hence.. fallible.. true equality means no one gets treated as an exception, and until they themselves face this reality, nothing will change.

[@POGPlanet-n5h]

Very helpful and insightful video presentation. Me and my family will be voting No. Thank you John Anderson.

[@bandicoot2016]

After listening to the Canadian situation, I'm really concerned about Australia's future if this gets enacted.

[@audreydoyle5268]

Why? What's their situation? Are you referring to the unprecedented forest fires? Or the fact that some of their indigenous people are now left without homes? Yeah, we will end up like them, if we DON'T pass this amendment. Have fun burning in the next Black Summer we could have avoided by listening to the Elders decades ago

[@cockneydoll]

Look at what just happened in WA. Their laws were rapidly repealed

[@albertito77]

Australia's situation will be worse. "Delaying legislation" is an understatement! It could absolutely cripple the sitting Government

[@rof8200]

Thank you Mr John Anderson. Australia cannot afford racial disparities which has cost so many other nations billions of dollars. We're fortunate to have escaped that. We cannot go back to recognising 500 first nations that didn't exist in the first place. Tribes are not sovereigns.

[@ministeroffice9251]

Why does the Governor-General not order this criminal act be stopped immediately and the Federal Police to charge those involved under the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth), 80.1AC Treachery; 80.2 ($edition) Urging the overthrow of the Constitution; and 268.22 Apartheid?

[@markdenning2558]

Sorry mate - the current annual cost for aboriginal services stands at, wait for it, $30 billion per year. And this is only going to go up. Note that the aboriginal population is less than 4% - do the sums.

[@zz3OPEN]

​@@markdenning2558Because the intent is never for the money to go where and to who it should, it's just a racket of immoral people enriching themselves. Surprise surprise being a diversity officer is a lucrative role.

[@dougohboy5190]

@@ministeroffice9251 ....it's because the so called GG''' swore his Oath to the queen of australia on the green constitution which is copywrite to the political parties . The queen of australia does not exist... and its a corporation reg in Delaware on the USSEC ''0000805157 and trading in australia with an ABN so we Australians are under the lawful maron Australian Commonwealth Constitution 1901 ... the political parties are sitting outside our Commonwealth in a parallel system ...

[@ijoyner]

"Australia cannot afford racial disparities which has cost so many other nations billions of dollars. We're fortunate to have escaped that." We have not escaped that at all. There is a great racial disparity in this country.

[@brontepetropoulos4755]

I'm from SA and I bloody well hope the majority of people in my state have educated brains and vote NOOOOOOO!!!

[@TheIceyeddy]

The majority will unfortunately vote yes.

[@gabrieljohannson6777]

From a NSW resident I hope they do as well. I’m voting No.

[@banta-pd8zj]

SA already has a voice to parliament. OMG, we're doomed! Frankly, I couldn't be more pleased. South Australia. Sometimes you just know how to rock.

[@brontepetropoulos4755]

@@gabrieljohannson6777 👍

[@ricochet2977]

@@banta-pd8zj That’s not in the constitution and can be changed if it becomes derogatory to the majority.

[@JohnWilliams-iw6oq]

I'll be voting no, I refuse to order and pay for a meal without knowing what it is only to find that what arrives at my table is totally indigestible.

[@namelast7226]

What if the meal isn't for you?

[@JohnWilliams-iw6oq]

@@namelast7226 it might not be fit for the dogs to eat.

[@maz2483]

​@@namelast7226The referendum is open for everyone lol

[@PippaGlynn-g3k]

Thank you Mr anderson

[@jeanettewellman9398]

Thank you Mr Anderson for explaining everything to us Australian's VOTE NO EVERYONE 💞💞

[@greenbank4800]

I refuse to vote for any change I do not have a copy of in my hands

[@bestwishes646]

Totally support the no campaign. That is not the answer to the plight of indigenous Australia. I say this as an indigenous woman ,who has worked in our community for 40 years.God help us 🙏

[@JohnLingard-b3f]

Thank you John for this well balanced view on the Voice and the clear enunciation of the problems of the yes vote.

[@audreydoyle5268]

Ahaha, I see no problems with back burning.... Which we've only done 24% of after this triple dip la niña... Hate to say this, but have fun loosing your home in the next major bushfire which could have been avoided if we had The Voice To Parliament decades ago.

[@newman653]

Mr Anderson has served this country with integrity & honour . Thank you sir .

[@daniellebcooper7160]

A very thorough explanation John. Thank you.

[@sisiphas]

Thank you again for your clarity honesty and rigour.

[@philexton]

Vote NO - also do away with Welcome to country and the other flags - we should all be equal under one flag.

[@mariafantasia1191]

The Aboriginal flag of course. Afterall, they were here first.

[@philexton]

@@mariafantasia1191Dont think any of the many hundred different mobs had a flag.

[@philexton]

@@mariafantasia1191 And this land was defended by both indigenous and non-indigenous soldiers under the current AUSTRALIAN flag

[@mariafantasia1191]

@@philexton They have one now. Two in fact - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.

[@mariafantasia1191]

@philexton Aboriginal soldiers fought for Australia while not properly recognised as Australian citizens. Goes to show the good character of those Aboriginal soldiers. Upon their return, they were treated badly again by Australians. Goes to show the lack of good character of white Australia at the time.

[@maxt7525]

As a person who has lived and worked in remote Aboriginal communities I will be voting NO. Australia is for all Australians regardless of race, always was, always will be ❤️🇦🇺

[@cockneydoll]

Thank you. My sentiments exactly

[@tonyswan6834]

Thank you John, a brilliantly concise description of why we all should vote NO, and God save Australia!!

[@jazzyj7490]

The advice that I was given about signing contrats is: always read a contract from beginning to end and especially read the "fine print" when it is read, understood and agreed upon and one is happy with the contract then it can be signed. "The Voice" in my view is a contract. Once it is signed it can't be taken back, without "Great Difficulty," so we need to have all the facts. From what I'm hearing we are being asked to sign this contact without knowing it's contents... from my understanding at this stage it is a blank piece of paper that can not be read. Just sign it and we will tell you what's in the contract at a later date, that way we can put in anything that we like and you will not have a say cause you already signed the contract... that doesn't sound right to me. We are being asked to say Yes first and we will write up the contract, fill in the details later... 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 after you have signed... I say, No thank you!!!!

[@AnotherDoug]

That is how Constitutional changes work: you agree to the concept; the details follow. For instance: income tax. All the Constitution says is "The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to ... taxation; but so as not to discriminate between States or parts of States". It doesn't talk about rates of tax or the structure of the Australian Taxation Office or how much the staff will be paid or any of the "fine print" that makes up our taxation system. The Constitutional recognition of A&TSI peoples is the same as this: we are being asked to vote on the concepts; details follow. Having said that, the Government has released some of important "fine print" about the Voice here: voice.gov.au/about-voice/voice-principles

[@Jopacob]

Thank you Fmr Deputy PM John Anderson for such well explained reasoning. The similarities with Canada gives a very clear picture of what will happen should the referendum be enacted. I have also pointed this out, largely to crickets. Similar outcomes in USA where a small elite of Native Indians have enriched themselves while the social problems similar in Australia have remained disparate. This is with the added bizarre dimension of Native owned and run Casinos that (I would say) prey on the most disadvantaged and vulnerable of their own community. I just hope there is enough under 35s and University educated Australians that will take an ideological breather from their unquestioned support and take a practical look into what you have presented. If they did so they may come to the conclusion that we can achieve much more progress in Closing the Gap and equality of opportunity without such a risky, unknown and permanent course of action.

[@timlowe7538]

I’m an under 35 and uni educated , and I approve this message

[@banta-pd8zj]

So grow up. Anderson is an heir to squatters, having a biased and conflicting agenda to ever look at thus issue with any objectivity.

[@lindasteenhuis2639]

⁠@@timlowe7538I am also university educated. Perhaps you didn’t take any classes involving critical thinking. Look again at this video. The editing, presentation style and selective production of statistics along with facts that although linked aren’t necessarily causal. Perhaps you will be able to see holes in the presented arguments. Advertising psychology is big business. A great deal more general education is needed to ensure people know how media is used to manipulate. The ability to dissect how, in todays multimedia world presentations are used to sway perception is critical if we are to make rational decisions. For an entertaining introduction to these concepts start with a few episodes of “Gruen” on ABC iview.

[@thelamington8195]

We don’t need a Voice. We need accountability for the BILLIONS and BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars spent, and the hundreds of ESTABLISHED indigenous bodies and bureaucracies, and WHY they are not working.

[@alanc6781]

I like lamingtons and I like what this one is saying.

[@PennySmart]

The very name The Voice says it all. There's no way of knowing if anyone is really "indigenous" to a country. That's absurd.

[@banta-pd8zj]

Frankly your statement is absurd. Do you mean to say you can't tell an aboriginal from other ethnic groups? Do you not understand that those that appear to be white are known to their families, their peers, their communities? Do you still not understand that the Voice is a call to partnership?

[@FOURTEEFIVE]

@@banta-pd8zjyou sound legitimately insane trying to pretend that word of mouth is sufficient proof

[@James-kv6kb]

Well I tell you what come down to my local shopping centre in country South Australia and I can guarantee I can show you who is Aboriginal and who is not

[@willyd-adv]

​​@@banta-pd8zjmy mate has Scottish patents, he was born in Aus and couldn't get a job after uni for nearly 2 years. He's the whitest, baldest guy you could ever meet but one day he said he was aboriginal on his cv (which isn't allowed to be checked out) and got three job offers that week. So yeah you can just say you are aboriginal and get away with it.

[@banta-pd8zj]

So willy, he lied and got job offers. So what happened? Is he working on the principle of his lie? You stopped before the interesting part kicked in. Do tell.

[@andyjay9346]

If there is only one video in your lifetime that needs to be shared around, this is the one. Please folks SHARE this video around. It is so worth the effort. VOTE NO to the voice.

[@pastorofmuppets8834]

Yes I'm sharing with all my closet racist acquaintances

[@James-kv6kb]

Well we could share some videos of the town cams to show that the white Aborigines are stealing money from us and not giving it to full bloods . But nobody seems to be worried about that

[@pastorofmuppets8834]

@SanctusPaulus-ic5gl no just calling out the BS

[@audreydoyle5268]

​@SanctusPaulus-ic5gl hmm, yeah, while you're at the polls voting no like a dunce, why don't you add "wE sHouLd ClaSs AbOriGInEs aS fAuNa aGaIn".

[@user-fm9zl6mc3w]

@@pastorofmuppets8834dude this is the exact reason people don’t want to vote yes 😂, you lot will call anyone who disagrees with The Voice to be racist and bigoted. To have an entity within the government that cannot be questioned in this manner is incredibly fuckinf dangerous and easily exploitable. Please have some common sense, there are plenty of rational reasons to vote yes but you throwing around the term racist as if it’s nothing is so pathetically idiotic that it’s funny

[@pablovalentine8976]

The voice would render our country as un democratic . We would not be a democracy anymore. Secondly Professor Langton states herself, if she does not get her own way on any issue whatsoever she will challenge it in the high court . Thus holding up parliamentary decisions for years at a time. By people hand picked not even elected into parliament. Us taxpayers will never ever have a yearly tax check anymore . Taxes will sky rocket .VOTE NO

[@kdegraa]

You receive a tax cheque as you’ve paid too much tax. It’s not a hand out or a thank you gift. It’s a settling of an account.

[@pablovalentine8976]

@@kdegraa yes well i obviously pay to much because every year i get something back

[@audreydoyle5268]

​@@pablovalentine8976 idk, I see that as a bonus, plus, it helps out the kids. Which are, you know, OUR FUTURE ECONOMY. If you didn't pay the amount you did in taxes, think about poor lil Jack or Julie who can't afford school supplies cause they have no choice but to go to a disadvantaged school. Think about all the good you could be doing during the year, while your tax money circulates the government departments to fund projects. I am on youth allowance for student, and EVEN I PAY TAXES WHICH I DO SO VOLUNTARILY!

[@alexwoo3504]

Some bad guys seems want to steal something from our hand. Vote no. Let at least your one neighbour know this issue. Urge them vote no too.

[@ConsueloCastanuela]

Tell 10 encouraging each one to tell 10.

[@James-kv6kb]

It doesn't help our case if we have people using terms like bad guys that is very American and a bit too simplistic . Anyway got me no one is worried about the 40 billion dollars going missing every year

[@audreydoyle5268]

Do you really think the First Nations People Of Australia would stoop to the same disgustingly petty level as White Australian's ancestors?

[@rodchaffey3552]

The most noticeable effect the "Voice" has so far achieved is that it has a created a gigantic volcanic mess by dividing Australians. Is this what Albanese has been aiming for? If so, then his success has been truly masterful.

[@audreydoyle5268]

It's only dividing because you see equity as racism

[@rodchaffey3552]

Are you INSANE?? Nothing like pulling out the "racism" card when you are obviously incapable of providing a decent response. @@audreydoyle5268

[@janeblogs324]

@@audreydoyle5268 are you saying abos can't be elected politicians currently? Where's everybody else's voice? Why do only abos get one?

[@alanc6781]

@@audreydoyle5268 Rubbish.

[@dextermorgan5893]

Well said Sir! Aussies don't like to be conned! Albo,you will soon find out. Vote NO to save our Great Southern Land!

[@johnpine9945]

First comment Thankyou Mr Anderson

[@seanudal]

Australians should take a photo of their vote as evidence. I would not trust the government.

[@katel7309]

people are also saying take a pen.

[@Wasabitheband1]

🎯 “one people, one destiny” - Henry Parkes, 1891.

[@lecolintube]

It’s a great quote, I mean that sincerely; however it was 76 years (1967) and took another referendum before Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were even counted as a part of that ‘one people’. That means that from the time Henry Parks said this - an entire generation of Aboriginal and Torres straight people had no say in the laws or decisions that effected them, they had no rights under the constitution - they couldn’t even apply for a passport.., how could they have part in the ‘one destiny’? 76 years was more than an entire lifetime for many from this quote being uttered, to movement being taken towards them being a part of the ‘one people’…

[@EJP286CRSKW]

@@lecolintube You mean 'reckoned' for the purpose of determining HofR seats. They were always counted in the census. The 1967 referendum didn't change that, nor the voting status either. It couldn't.

[@audreydoyle5268]

​@@EJP286CRSKW oh, I didn't know we conducted fauna counts pre 1967

[@lecolintube]

@@EJP286CRSKW Thank you, yes you’re correct here with regards to voting, and ‘reckoning’. The Australian Constitution laid out in 1901 said in Section 127, says: ‘in reckoning the numbers of people of the Commonwealth, or of a State or other part of the Commonwealth, aboriginal natives shall not be counted’. With regard to voting, whilst it wasn’t until 1984 that full federal voting rights were granted to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, you are totally correct - the 1967 referendum didn’t and couldn’t address this. Also some Aboriginal’s were able to vote in State elections prior federation (expect WA & QLD which expressly prohibited it) & it wasn’t until 1962 that the electoral act was amended. I suppose my comment above was directed more towards the fact that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people constitutionally were separated out, and not on the same level as the rest of the population. - and if the constitution, the document that legally governs the country, made a distinction and separated the population into two - with laws for some and laws for others, how could they be equal and a part of Henry Parks ‘one people’? Things such as the stolen generation are evidence of how they could be ‘legally’ treated under a different set of laws completely allowable under the constitution of the time, seperate from the rest of the Australian population. I can only say, this doesn’t fit with the ‘One people, one destiny’ quote from Henry Parks.

[@kevindonaghey8483]

One of our local indigenous elders told me that those people who support the voice no very little about indigenous peoples culture and probably never even stayed out in the bush other than a camping trip he said don't fall for the yes vote

[@pastorofmuppets8834]

Yet here we have an old white man telling us to vote no

[@James-kv6kb]

Yes the white Aborigines living in the city have absolutely no idea but they want to take all the money and make all the decisions. The scam is keep the full bloods hidden away so that the white Aborigines can get all the money

[@65cj55]

Yes, they know nothing of the lawless and violent culture of the past.

[@alwillett1114]

Thanks John. As always, a clear, well thought through argument for NO vote.

[@DrStrangeLemon]

Many thanks for your post Mr Anderson. I'm constantly asking myself, why are we doing this to ourselves? If I knew ABSOLUTELY nothing about it; I'd look at the two indigenous proponents - Linda Burney of Mosman, Sydney or Jacinta Nampijinpa Price of Darwin, NT - and ask myself, "who's fair dinkum?" & vote accordingly. Putting that aside, it continues to amaze me when I overhear people talking up the "Yes" ... misplaced good intentions and lefty zealots, they always feel the need to publicly "share" because they've outsourced their thinking to Labor. What needs greater attention is why the Teals are in lockstep with Labor on this (as always), when I fail to see how "Yes" will help climate change. Are they representing their electorates or their benefactors?

[@macalacalan1175]

Thank you John for your ongoing hard work and courage to provide us with a balanced, well researched and objectively presented perspective. Although, in 50 years, I have never voted for the political party you represented, I am in lockstep with you on this critical issue - which should never have seen the light of day.

[@pastorofmuppets8834]

Yes I'm relieved we have an old white man telling Australia what we have to do for the indigenous community

[@angusevans1530]

@@pastorofmuppets8834 does it upset you because he’s right? Or because he’s studied it and showing the public how truly poor the idea as a whole is?

[@benscobie4222]

@@pastorofmuppets8834 what a racist coment you just convinced me to vote no

[@EJP286CRSKW]

@@pastorofmuppets8834 Surely you see the racism inherent in that remark?

[@TheBillABCTV]

I am Voting NO to that voice.

[@Dogwatch219]

You had to vote no on both questions. If you say yes to acknowledging indigenous people and no on the voice the vote will be a yes. Beware tyranny alert!

[@TheBillABCTV]

@@Dogwatch219 I will vote No to all.

[@Aquascape_Dreaming]

Unfortunately, it's likely to get passed. Most people will vote with feelings rather than critical thinking. I hope I'm wrong.

[@nettles6055]

​@@Aquascape_DreamingFrom what we have seen and heard, most are voting No.

[@byronbandit605]

It's a vote to have a advisory board in parliament. You are blowing it well out of proportion.

[@jonathantoms3585]

Thank you. I knew that this Voice was based on another countries Voice Just by the narratives used. Now I know it’s based on Canadas Voice Just because I had heard there activists speak in afew videos a few years ago. So thank you again

[@andrewbishop869]

Good points and I think you are right, with out it works and the model it has to be a no.

[@JTT-ft3eb]

Please share this video folks

[@DD-bx8rb]

Addressing Labor’s Socialist Left leadership recently in Brisbane, Albanese declared his loyalty to the faction, promising he would return to it once his prime ministership ended.“This group should take pride in the fact that I joined the Labor Party to support the Left, I have been a member of the Left my whole life, and I’ll be back in the faction once [my prime ministership ends], because it all ends at some stage,” Albanese said to applause.

[@GlennFloyd]

I am a white hairy DIRECT descendant of my two-million-year-old black hairy mother named Lucy Australopithecus Africanus Afarensis, revered matriarch of our one and only Australian human tribe!! "WE ACKNOWLEDGE OUR 'AUSTRALIAN' NON-INDIGENOUS & INDIGENOUS TRADITIONAL OWNERS OF OUR AUSTRALIAN 'COUNTRY' UPON WHICH WE MEET; & PAY OUR RESPECTS TO ALL OUR NON-INDIGENOUS AND INDIGENOUS ELDES PAST & PRESENT'' !

[@banta-pd8zj]

Nonnetheless it still doesn't stop you sounding like a bigot.

[@louiserawle8999]

And so say all of us 😂😂😂❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@JeffreyBrooks1]

Thank you John Anderson for helping us keep moving forward on a straight path to all Australians working together.

[@thebiglebowski4309]

Thank you for this clear and concise video explaining the Voice. More than the rubbish Albo spouts.

[@saspredydious9295]

As I said many months ago when it was stated that “we won’t know what The Voice” looks like until several months after the referendum”, in my 70 years I have never signed a blank cheque and I won’t start now. We need better transparency and accountability for the funding already provided to our First Nation People to prevent mismanagement, nepotism and cronyism such as was actioned by Galarrwuy Yunupingu who divided funds between three Aboriginal clans leaving a further ten clans without any benefit from the millions of dollars. We must recognize that our First Nation people are themselves divided into clans/tribes/mobs and that those in power will look after their own clan.

[@petersinclair3997]

Very good points. No one should sign a blank cheque.

[@sharleen2318]

Thanks for explaining it so well

[@faithcomesbyhearing682]

Thank you John Anderson for this presentation.I am an aboriginal Australian and I will be voting no.......

[@millar6070]

Now after listening to senator John Anderson, understanding his words, also listening to both sides. I'm voting "NO" to the voice. My homeland is the only thing I'll stand and fight for. Hands off the constitution 📖 of the Commonwealth of Australia 🇦🇺. My home,any Australian 🌏new or old, black or white,🤓

[@pastorofmuppets8834]

Yes I'm relieved we have an old white man telling Australia what we have to do for the indigenous community

[@patrickf969]

@@pastorofmuppets8834weird, racist comment

[@audreydoyle5268]

​@@pastorofmuppets8834 you are a genius. I love you

[@pastorofmuppets8834]

@@audreydoyle5268 why thank you Audrey. Most people love me for my body, but you love me for my mind. 🥰

[@alanc6781]

@@pastorofmuppets8834 Well, I think you talk rubbish. Look at the cultures of the rest of the world going back thousands of years, then look at the stone age Aborigines all around us now. Where I live we have full blood and mixed blood Aborigines working alongside other Australians with no problems. Look at Jacinta Price. She tells it like it is and she says NO. You are a real muppet by the sound of things, if you vote yes. The winning side always calls the shots and the white men won. Now we are truly multicultural and better for it. It sounds like you want to create a huge divide.

[@AraratGold]

The Voice is a bad episode of Married at First Sight, except there's no option for divorce ! JUST VOTE NO, because it is too bloody dangerous to be messing with our Constitution for the sake of only 3% of the population !

[@gabrieljohannson6777]

Most brutal social put down of this “idea” I’ve seen.

[@librandancer]

Very well articulated presentation

[@johnwebber4358]

Clear,precise and to the point. Well worth considering by every Australian.

[@jefflangdon3540]

Concise. Precise isn’t necessarily wrong but is more commonly used when referring to accuracy. Seeing that this a discussion that has opposing views the other side wouldn’t see as accurate, but they couldn’t say he wasn’t concise.

[@willvallentine6484]

It was My understanding that our brothers and sisters were recognised when they got the right to vote, One person One vote

[@D9802-w4h]

Well spoken, with measure and fact, Mr Anderson. Thank you.

[@jujumaccas]

This is the referendum question. Please vote No. On referendum day, voters will be asked to vote 'yes' or 'no' on a single question. The question on the ballot paper will be: “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?”

[@pastorofmuppets8834]

I'll be voting yes

[@41srn]

How do you know that will be the question ?

[@alanc6781]

@@pastorofmuppets8834 And I will be voting NO.

[@pastorofmuppets8834]

@@alanc6781 great, in all caps?

[@judycorbett4462]

VOTE NO NO NO

[@tadeuszmichaelwlodarczyk3120]

Thanks John Anderson excellent video ✔️👌will be sharing for people to vote NO!!!

[@bv2thetiger]

Hear hear. Clear, respectful and actually answers the questions we have.

[@louiserawle8999]

Thank Christ for John Anderson ❤️

[@Sam-mh3ui]

The voice is the formalisation of critical race theory. It would be the most dangerous legal proceeding of all time

[@gilliancatt9292]

This is what I've noticed since "The Voice" was introduced. When our local and national news covered crimes such as burglaries, stabbings, assaults, car thefts with ensuing crashes causing injuries etc., we were always given a description of the offenders. Is there now a "blanket" of information if these crimes were committed by an indigenous person. Now we're only given a description of non-indigenous offenders. Has anyone else noticed this? Six months ago, we heard about the chaos in Alice Springs, Newcastle, Katherine and APY lands - now? - nothing.

[@alanc6781]

The only growth industry in Australia is politics. And propaganda.

[@merinsan]

John, you are too rational, therefore, I have to subscribe. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to hearing you talk on things other than the voice (after the referendum).

[@janicevasey4038]

This is like signing a contract without reading it or even getting an outline!

[@Holy_Moley]

Totally agree. But in practise, no body follows the Constitution any more it seems anyway. I quoted the Constitution in a court, and the judge completely ignored it, and said that they only follow it when they want to. They pick and choose. And I will definitely vote NO, if we are still here.

[@SvendBosanvovski]

Thank you, John, for your learned input. Yours is the best overview available for popular consumption. The drift toward a confected, fractured nationalism should be of concern to all patriotic Australians. The additional 20 odd pages to the covering summary of the Uluru Statement from The Heart gives the game away and reinforces your concerns.

[@danielgilbert3044]

Thank you, very concerning. I'm more concerned with the heart of this country, this is a product of a systemic foolishness that is sweeping our land.

[@anniefitzpatrick2086]

Thank You John Anderson, very well explained.

[@ausjo8352]

Thankyou Mr John Anderson for a far more simplified view of the changes. So nice to see a familiar face.

[@pastorofmuppets8834]

Yes I'm relieved we have an old white man telling Australia what we have to do for the indigenous community

[@ausjo8352]

@@pastorofmuppets8834 can I ask you if you have read the Australian Constitution? Albo swore an oath to the King. His job is to protect all Australians not just who he likes. I think he has broken his oath? Has he?

[@pastorofmuppets8834]

@@ausjo8352 it's time we became a republic. A tradition about a thousand years out of date needs to go. Constitutions can be amended when needs be.

[@ausjo8352]

@@pastorofmuppets8834 not with Albo at the helm. Even if it did happen it should be the choice of Australians and not by the PM. The last referendum people said no.

[@pastorofmuppets8834]

@@ausjo8352 riiiiiight

[@manhouse100]

Aboriginal and European Australians should ALL be treat and respected the same. A vote for NO maintains that EQUALITY. A vote of yes creates division. We are already divided by the demands of Aboriginal peoples. I don’t think anyone wants to see Aboriginals at a disadvantage in any way. But this creates inequality. We are one and we are many. Let’s not put anyone above anyone else

[@user-cx5io9uc8e]

I will always believe a farmer over some dodgy city slicker career politician , who never had a real job.

[@banta-pd8zj]

When you see him in his RM Williams, can you imagine him getting his clobber dirty. He's got a manager sunshine. He's a career politician even in what, his retirement?

[@pastorofmuppets8834]

Yes a true blue farmer 😂😂

[@algernoncalydon3430]

They don't even know what they are voting for? Yes indeed. Alaska did that when a referendum came out of nowhere and passed, with seemingly no actual support from the voters. Why? It was necessary because Lisa Murkowski who was not able to con Alaskans a second time, who originally was appointed to the US Senate illegally by her father the governor of Alaska, who needed a new voting system. So the ranked choice voting system passed, and was kept under wraps until the election, two years later. Then we went to vote and most people had no idea what a rank choice system was. Just before the vote I listened to our local state representative and he could not explain to a group of voters how it worked. He couldn't explain how it even got passed in the first place. But it worked, Lisa Murkowski did not get a majority vote, but got in as she accumulated the secondary votes from Democrats. It was an experiment that solidified the idea in Alaska, that our election system was rigged and no longer valid. These things like the Voice are experiments in leaving the Constitution behind. Of circumventing the rule of law. Covid was just part of the experiment. Now come the other stages.

[@ganping4596]

It's like marrying a woman first before knowing anything about her 😂 Vote NO NO NO

[@bevhowell7665]

Our school children should be taught a history to be proud! As a whole people of all nations and countries, have contributed to this great country, all have suffered , all people , all children all women all men, history, people who look back 100 years and become victims , to be a victim, is to destroy ones self. follow the laws and rules, parents are the guides if they scream and yell about the rules , their children will suffer, one flag, one country, one people we are of mixed nations , we have all walked on this land Australia, help the children make this country strong vote, no

[@Coops777]

Thankyou John. Your well researched and presented programs are so much appreciated. I am with many who feel this is one of the most dangerous concepts ever put to referendum.

[@pastorofmuppets8834]

Yes I'm relieved we have an old white man telling Australia what we have to do for the indigenous community

[@Coops777]

@@pastorofmuppets8834 The same could be said for the PM

[@pastorofmuppets8834]

@@Coops777 sure thing, but he's the one who can make a change. Having an "expert" old white man saying why it's a bad idea... Yeah.

[@pastorofmuppets8834]

@SanctusPaulus-ic5gl I'm just calling out the closet racists who are using these kind of clips to justify their stance.

[@shrimpsqndwich]

@SanctusPaulus-ic5gl but that’s because the constitution doesn’t specify what it will be, the entire point of it is that the parliament decides which form it takes

[@kelvinwarburton2558]

The women in the government that carry their voice for the yes vote with their false facts have turned me and my family off so we will, be voting NO

[@gcm747]

I wish more people knew how dangerous this proposal to change our Constitution is.

[@ecommasters3847]

Fantastic summary and well informed presentation of information about this. Thankyou

[@Cgh708]

Finally some detailed facts!

[@resurrectingand]

We must fight this absolutely

[@DavidPola1961]

Beware of Albo's two part trick question if you tick yes about recognition but tick no about the rest your first tick will over ride your no tick for the second question also take your own pen do not use pencils provided . If you want a NO vote tick no in both boxes .

[@jujumaccas]

There is only one tricky question - Just write NO. The question on the ballot paper will be: “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?”

[@katel7309]

@@jujumaccas NO!

[@youbigtubership]

Thank you John. This is very clear and useful.

[@freespirit1411]

Thank you John Anderson. It's really quite frightening what could happen if the Y vote wins.

[@sthnwatch]

Thank you, Mr. Anderson. You're voice in speaking on this debate is vital to ensuring the "No" vote gets across, and our country's Black Fellas get the real inspiration, leadership, and general support in adapting to the way of the White Fellas that they've needed for so long. This "Voice to parliament" is not the answer to their long overdue remedy. I grew up in the '80s in small rural/regional country town with a Christian Mission the Black Fellas lived on, and with a massive Abo population of approx. 50% of the township's general population and 80% of my little public primary school's children as full blood Aboriginals... ...To be completely blunt about their situation, they need some real support in adapting from their caveman status where they were able to move with the seasons and live as if they were on holiday, with no responsibilities except to find something to eat from nature's pantry and a place to sleep in nature's hotel inn, in between making babies and warring with their neighbouring tribes over the available bush tucker and the good looking women. Adapting from that lazy position to the current contemporary position of Australia's hardworking social and political national landscape, which isn't anywhere near a caveman landscape their genetic makeup is used to, considering they lived as if on holiday for (supposedly now) 65,000yrs. Funny enough, not so long ago, when I was a boy in the '80s, national Aboriginal day was a big thing at my primary school because around 8/10 of the children were full Abo. We learned a lot about Abo culture, dreamtime stories, and learned their lingo and about the tribes and way of life. In the '80s, their culture was 40,000yrs old. In the '00s, this blew out to 60,000yrs. This year, it's become 65,000yrs for the referendum. National Aboriginal and Islander Day Of Commemoration became NAIDOC week too. It's telling how National Aboriginal Day became NAIDOC week and their heritage of tens of thousands of years ago is also extending every decade. If this keeps up, in a few years their heritage will be claimed as being 100,000yrs old, and NAIDOC week will be NAIDOC week month.

[@AnotherDoug]

Thanks for the full-on racist comments

[@stephenford2768]

Had an absolute gutfull of hearing about the voice to parliament. The more I hear the less I like. Sounds like race based communism to me. Nothing says unity like three flags for one country, and We are are all equal but some are more equal than others.

[@lynutting7339]

Thank you for speaking up about the VOICE, we have to vote NO, we are ALL AUSTRALIANS, we DO NOT WANT DIVERSE

[@ballaservices9275]

As usual, you are right on the money, John. Thank you.

[@tiesword3252]

WE THE PEOPLE...STAND STRONG for NO, NO to BULLY, NO to RACISM, NO to CENSORSHIP, and MOST OF ALL NO to UNCONSTITUTIONAL.....WE ARE NOT DIVIDE.....

[@carlohernandez3941]

New Zealand here - don't do it Australia, NZ is circling the drain because of similar policy. Forces outside our countries are driving these ideas.

[@domenicruberto608]

Thank you for the articulate presentation.

[@RB_0.77]

John is the only, THE ONLY, person I am listening to on this issue. He is the only one explaining things clearly.

[@audreydoyle5268]

Have fun burning in the next Black Summer then

[@denisredden3174]

Thanks for your explaination John, Voteing NO is the only way to go !! BUT can someone please explain What do the Indigenous people do with the Royalties they receive from the mines !! Maybe there should be a Royal commission into were all that money goes!!

[@bigm383]

Thank you for the most succinct yet informative video on the subject. Not one of the Yes campaigners from PM, down has provided anywhere near this amount of information.

[@AnotherDoug]

If you consider misinformation and scare-mongering as "informative", sure this video has done a great job.

[@alanc6781]

@@AnotherDoug You do like writing rubbish, don't you?

[@lessISmore4444]

The one positive that will hopefully come out of this debacle is that Australians will wake up and pay closer attention to who is being elected to represent us in parliament.

[@James-kv6kb]

I was hoping what would come out of this is ,we'd actually say no to white people pretending to be Aboriginal . It's not the full bloods causing the problem here it's the ones with very little Aboriginal blood

[@CSUnger]

I’m not convinced that voting even matters any longer for any purpose other than to move the Overton Window further and further Left.

[@ConsueloCastanuela]

Dear Australians prayer and fasting, forgiveness, turning to God, praising Him is required. Like our government here is working overtime stealing our rights, misnaming their bills yours is attempting to steal your voice. The name alone is alarming. It takes your voice away while using race to divide you, while short cutting the process. Praying for you.

[@gloriapascoe2614]

WE DON'T NEED YOUR PRAYERS. I WANT TO KNOW WHY WARREN MUNDENE IS A DIRECTOR AT CPAC POLITICAL NETWORK AN AMERICAN RIGHT-WING POLITICAL NETWORK. $5000 TO JOIN. YOU ARE SPREADING MISINFORMATION ABOUT THE VOICE. GIVE ALBANESE AN APOLOGY. I FOUND OUT TODAY ABOUT CPAC. NO AMERICAN POLITICS IN AUSTRALIA