What happens if Australia votes No to the Voice referendum? No-one has articulated a plan B
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If the Voice isn't the solution, as Peter Dutton argues, what is? How will Australia tackle Indigenous disadvantage if the majority vote No? Given the polls all suggest a No vote is the most likely outcome, the answer is surprisingly unclear, writes David Speers.
  • surreptitiouswalk
    161·
    1 year ago

    Well looks like we know what Price has got for selling out her people. Now we just gotta find out what Warren Mundine’s pay day is.

    • IjustdoeyesOP
      10·
      1 year ago

      He was banking on a senate seat, but shit himself in the foot by saying the quiet part loud about a treaty

  • Minarble
    101·
    1 year ago

    The Voice and audits are complimentary.

    One of the first orders of business of the Voice would be to request a full audit on spending so they have a baseline and better understanding of where the money is going so they can identify ineffective programs and redirect it to where it needs to go.

    Audits are already done regularity anyway 20 or so while Dutton was in Government.

    The problem with audits is they are done to show you are complying with the management intent.

    If the intent is misdirected and ineffectual you can still get 100% in an audit because you did what you said you would do and wasted the money exactly correctly.

    The Voice is the way to get the money used efficiently and effectively in the first place.

  • Ilandar
    8·
    1 year ago

    The idea that anyone would genuinely believe that a single person can magically fix all these problems by themselves is just painfully stupid.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    As the Voice referendum campaign grinds towards its final week, there’s at least now agreement on one thing: The current system isn’t delivering for Indigenous Australians.

    Six months ago, when the Liberal party room resolved to support a No vote, Dutton’s preferred alternative was to create local and regional Voice bodies in legislation.

    This week, Dutton settled on a far simpler solution for tackling the problems of entrenched Indigenous disadvantage: Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.

    The shadow minister’s main idea appears to be a “forensic audit” of money spent on First Nations people to prevent waste.

    Beyond holding yet another review, the opposition leader says he will have “announcements to make in relation to other policies” to deal with Indigenous disadvantage, but only after the referendum.

    David Speers is National Political Lead and host of Insiders, which airs on ABC TV at 9am on Sunday or on iview.

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