It can't be destroyed by one prime minsister. If it was legislated in it would have to go through parliament to be dissolved, which is very unlikely to be supported unless there wer esrious reason to do so (like in the ATSIC fraud case). There is little to no difference in my opinion in the amount of power a constitutional body would have versus a statutory one. The whole point of the voice is to communicate indigenous issues, how is this hampered by not being in the constitution?
- NDIS is a massive failure and causing severe economic damage and not acheiving the required outcomes for disabled people
- voice to parliament
- Spending $1,000,000,000 on the war in Ukraine while our country is in the middle of a cost of living crisis
- Not tackling the homeless issue
- Inflation ramping up out of control, even post pandemic
- Immigration policy
- Public opinion extremely low
Now i'm not saying that LNP party would necessarily have performed any better on these topics or any other. But my view is that Albanese is viewing this referendum as his last chance to rescue public favour and establish labor for a guarantee next election by pushing through "progressive" policy. He's trying to replicate the 1967 referedum and it doesn't sit right with me the way the whole thing has panned out
prime minister was a poor choice of words but all it takes it one LNP government and a legislated voice would be ripped to shreds or degraded, akin to native title
- The NDIS was a good thing, it was degraded by the coalition into a mess of private contractors who are less effective and more expensive simultaneously, and exploit the system. The Labor government is working as we speak on fixing this deep problem and making the NDIS both effective and economical once more.
- ?? Elaborate
- We don’t live in America, we haven’t spent a trillion dollars on Ukraine. They’ve provided a reasonable amount of assistance, but nothing that hampers our ability to deal with domestic issues.
- They have been taking massive steps to solve the homelessness problem, they passed the HAFF which will lead to tens of thousand of social and affordable houses being built, and significantly reduce homelessness for years to come through its design.
- This has been a problem throughout the entire world, it started during the coalition and it wasn’t their fault then and it isn’t Labor’s fault now. The independent reserve bank are the main ones in charge of that, and they have been taking steps as necessary to address the problem.
- What?? They haven’t changed anything significant about immigration policy other than funding it sufficiently
- Albanese has had extremely high public opinion throughout his term, this is just wrong.
The aim of the voice referendum was to follow through with the Indigenous peoples’ recommendation. If Albanese only wanted political points, he would’ve never even suggested this referendum because it’s painfully obvious it has been really, really bad for Labor and it was always going to be. It’s not about doing what’s best for them electorally, it’s about making a real impact.