The Voice is Dead. Hallelujah For That!

My late night rant after the referendum went to the No' as per a Voice.
See the Mr. Ward links, and others about how our Blackfellas have been s the subject of a slow genocide-where was Albo when all this went down?
And Stan "The Tan" Grant, too?
Mr. Ward-Cooked To Death:
https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/cooked-to-death-ten-years-after-shocking-death-in-custody-has-anything-changed/fsgf3aujw
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/shine-a-light/duty-of-care-beyond-case-of-mr-ward-cooked-to-death-by-gigantic-outsource/
Tanya Day Death:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/24/tanya-day-death-custody-inquest-family-want-answers

Important about Blackfella Constitutional recognition:
https://constitutionalequality.au/2023/05/19/recognised/

It is not the Australian people but the governments doing all the dirty work, as Pat Dodson points out here. Where were all these Voice-pushers then?

An article by Pat Dodson
The Sydney Morning Herald
June 7 2007

Govts 'oppose native title', says Dodson
Published: June 7 2007 - 1:36PM

Fifteen years after the High Court's Mabo decision Australian governments are actively and systematically opposing the recognition of native title, prominent indigenous leader Mick Dodson says.

Prof Dodson, chairman of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, used the annual Mabo Lecture at the Native Title Conference in Cairns to attack governments for their land rights policies.

Both at the federal level and state and territory level, governments have actively opposed the recognition of native title, especially in Western Australia and Queensland, Prof Dodson said.

"The most recent example is the great victory by the Noongar nation, where the WA government lawyers argued that the colonisers had wrought such devastation upon the Noongar people - through dispossession of lands, killings, the removal of children, introduced diseases, suppression of culture - from which they stated Noongars could not possibly have survived," Prof Dodson said.

The Federal Court last year upheld the Noongar people's native title claim over more than 6,000 square kilometres of Perth and its surrounds, but the WA and federal governments have appealed, claiming the ruling was inconsistent with previous decisions.

Prof Dodson said the WA government, with encouragement from the commonwealth, has tried "every dirty trick" to oppose the recognition of native title in the south west of WA.

"This is not just political opposition for the sake of securing the redneck voters," he said.

"It is structural and systematic opposition by governments at all levels to the recognition of native title."

Prof Dodson said the need for indigenous people to assert their rights to self-determination was paramount.

He said he was heartened and impressed by the actions of the Alice Springs' town camp Aborigines, who last month decided against handing control of their housing to the NT government in return for $60 million in Commonwealth funds.

Prof Dodson said the offer was a blatant attempt to privatise more communal land and leverage wealth from traditional owners.

Prof Dodson urged governments to "get out of the way" and let indigenous people make their own decisions.

This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/national/govts-oppose-native-title-says-dodson-20070607-h61.html