Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "Australia to vote in historic Indigenous Voice referendum" video.

This isn't accurate. If you are an Australian citizen AND LIVE IN A STATE or live abroad you have a right to vote fairly in all elections. If you live in a territory, such as the Northern Territory, ACT, Christmas Island, the teewee Islands, etc there are no local or state governments to vote for, and you don't get to vote for house of reps. If you're one of the islanders you don't get to vote for federal senate either. Territories are the property of the crown, not the people and come under federal jurisdiction with discretion of the governor general.. The federal government decide what they can and cannot do. They provide the funding and benefit directly from any economic outputs such as mining royalties. Not the people living there. Territories have administrative assemblies with territory elected members. They seem like an analogue to a state government but they aren't because they have no real powers. They're more like an advisory body that advise the federal government on how they think the territory should be run. People living in these territories actually have very little say over their lives, and over how the benefits of their GST and mining royalties might be spent. Most of that money gets redistributed by the federal government into Sydney and Melbourne. It should therefore be of no surprise to anyone that the places where the gap is most predominant, where poverty and crime is highest, where things are least working is inside these territories. We had the wrong referendum. The referendum should have been for statehood for the NT.
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@KatharineShaw-z8u No, it isn't. Not at all. For starters only some of the people had their say. We've only had our say on a faulty proposition, we haven't actually solved anything . All the same problems from yesterday are still here today. There are Australian citizens who are not being treated the same as other Australian citizens which is unconstitutional. We have the labor led east coast states talking about treaties now. Something they have no mandate for, and are doing without our consent. It's something Warren Mundine campaigned on No in order to get. Treaty is the worst thing possible to both reconciliation and the future of our country. Our country is in a mess right now and it's largely because labor are in power across state and federal governments. And they want to pursue a far left agenda. That's where the crime epidemics are coming from. This isn't the end of things, it's only just the beginning. If you can't see that you're blind.
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@daeith1233 what does yankville have to do with any of this?
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@amandab1064 This is a thread about the voice referendum, on a video about the same. I haven't brought up coal, only you are because you can't defend any of your other positions. Wow, an unelected career politician speaking on behalf of no country made a politically motivated non-binding comment that you've parroted out of context. Amazing. A coal project does not equal X number of power stations. 🤣 You've clearly read something somewhere and interpreted it out of context. Seems to be a running theme with you. You've chosen the wrong person to rant about coal at. Advocating science and acting in an advisory capacity to governments is part of my job. Coal isn't going anywhere. If you're worried about AGW, instead of making empty arguments online, understand that emissions are not and never have been the problem. The problem is and always has been population scale, and 97% of all climate scientists, including the original atmospheric scientists who alerted us in 1962 about climate change and created the entire field of climate science agree. As does the IPCC who has noted population scale as the ultimate driver of climate change in every single annual report since their inception in 1988. Labor don't "like crime" they just have poor policy based in feelings instead of practicality. It's good intentions causing harm, the usual story. They're listening to a fringe instead of the community at large.
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@amandab1064 Federal labour have been in office for 18 months. In that time we've gone from a 10 year forecast of growth back to economic recovery under the previous government to a 40 year forecast of decline under labor. Labor have been in office in Qld and Victoria for 6+ years. These are the states where crime is out of control. Crime in NSW is only now beginning to climb since labour have changed the rules on youth offenders. It isn't the length of time someone has been in government that matter, it's their policies and the outcomes they have. Labor haven't had a decent leader, with reasonable policies since Beazley, and not really since Keating. Union bosses make terrible politicians. Treaty is NOTHING like native title. The claims you're making suggest you don't actually understand what treaty means. That's fine if you don't, but it makes your position untenable. . Treaty will set reconciliation back at least a century, if it's even ever possible at all after treaty. Treaty is the ultimate division. We need reconciliation through unity, as one Australian people, actually treated equally and given a real fair go. Edit: I'm not sure how you believe coal is at all relevant to this thread or anything I have said. However, your claim about new projects outright false. We are far from the only country approving new coal projects, and whether you like it or not new coal projects will always be required. Coal is used for more than just burning to create electricity. Try actually understanding the things you're talking about instead of parroting some nonsense you read online and failed to fact check.
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