Comments by "" (@pwillis1589) on "Voice to Parliament 'fatigue' among Australians" video.

@seaniev5953 I'm not going to tell you which way to vote that's up to you. I will be voting yes for several reasons. 1) our original constitution was explicitly racist. It contained three specifically racist clauses 25, 51(xxiv) and 127. 2) Indigenous peoples were essentially excluded from the debates, consultations, and referendums that took place in forming our federation. 3) 235 years of racist discrimination needs to be corrected. 4) A voice to parliament with no veto power, no legislative capability, and no financial delegation is a modest request from the indigenous community. 5) The indigenous community leaders believe a voice will go a long way to reducing the gap between average Australians and the indigenous community. 6) A voice will assist reconciliation. There is more but that's a start. As I said this is not meant as an argument for you to vote yes it is why I'm voting yes. You vote how you feel you should.
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@jackturpin7828 Welcome to country ceremonies were well documented by the Dutch explorers who made contact with aboriginals in Northwest Australia in the middle 17th Century. You are factually and demonstrably wrong. Where did you even get the idea Ernie Dingo made up welcome to country ceremonies? Facebook, Instagram, True Blue crew?
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@jackturpin7828 OMG. You are talking about a modern interpretation that Erni Dingo and Richard Walley came up with back in the 70s. That's your level of research and learning the first article you pull up on Google. Read the ship logs of Willem Janszoom, Jan Carstensz, and Dirk Hartog contacts with Indigenous people. The whole industry around the attempt to discredit Indigenous culture has been instrumented by people like Keith Windshuttle in an attempt to prevent Indigenous land rights. They failed miserably and your misinformed opinion is a result of this deliberate deception years ago.
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@Nathan-ry3yu WTF are you talking about? The legislation to allow a referendum has to pass both houses of parliament before a referendum can take place. Have you even the remotest clue how our system of government works. Once a referendum takes place the government is compelled to follow its result.
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@cbisme6414 Richard Walley has publicly stated he didn't create the welcome to country ceremony all he and Ernie did was modernise it. I mean you can learn this with 2 minutes of reading and learning. Why are you so intent on demeaning thousands of years of aboriginal culture?
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41% of conservative voters say they will vote “yes” in polling, so I have no understanding of where you get your presumptions from.
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@seaniev5953 And your evidence for this claim?
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@bigd1558 I was merely relaying the results of an essential poll. Is it this particular poll or all polling in general you distrust?
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@seaniev5953 Independent polling by private companies is their business. Nobody is going to buy their product if it is shown to be inaccurate. Sometimes pollsters do get it wrong, but if 5 Independent polling companies come up with a similar result, that tells you they are probably correct. Currently all the polling indicates a slight drop in support for a yes vote, but it is still a majority of close to 60% which was down from a previous 65% yes vote. Polling conducted by these companies was extremely accurate in the last federal election and several state elections.
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