Voice 4
If you look at the history of this referendum, Labor announced the referendum before they detailed what we were going to be voting for. The voice mate, just the vibe of the thing…
This forced the coalition onto the fence at the beginning. Albo must have known that eventually the coalition would oppose it, because they’re basically cunts who don’t want to give anything away if it might impact what they or their mates have. Plus they harbour old fashioned racists, but so do the other mob.
So, here we are. Without bilateral political support the voice is going down and any political pundit could have predicted this.
If Dutton supported the thing he would have been killed by the nutters in his own party. Now he doesn’t, he’ll lose all the progressive votes that the coalition need to ever get back into power. These being the teals they lost at the last election.
Either way, it’s classic wedge politics at it’s best. Looking at it logically though, Albo threw the indigenous cause under the bus for his own gain.
Nice fellow! I’m sure there’s some sort of justification going on here, like “once we’ve won the next election we’ll do something better with a bigger mandate, like a treaty”. Or something like that.
I’m not a fan. It’s all bad juju and it will end in tears.
What Dutton should have lied is “yes, will back it unilaterally”. Lacking a political goal, Labor probably would have deferred the thing furthermore.
It’s just goes to show that in politics being in power is like moving first in tictactoe. With wedge behaviour you can either win or draw unless you’re completely useless.
The number of times that we change parties just shows how useless they really are, even at their own game.
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