Two Months After Australians Voted 'No', the Push for Treaties Gathers Pace

It’s time that the Labor Party started governing for all Australians

Victoria Premier Jacinta Allan claims ‘regular people’ expect a treaty

Two months after Australians overwhelmingly rejected the Voice, the Victorian government is pressing ahead with a plan to enter into a treaty with its own citizens.

The October 14 referendum result was pretty clear. Australians wanted to address Indigenous disadvantage, but they did not want to divide the country by race.

Sixty per cent of Australians voted ‘No’ to an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

This was all the more remarkable when you consider that the ‘Yes’ campaign was pushed at every turn by government, business, sporting codes, celebrities and mainstream media.

And yet the referendum result has failed to dissuade Victoria’s Labor Government from forging ahead with a treaty between its non-Indigenous and Indigenous people.

Few if any Victorians would have imagined they were at war with one another.

Few if any Victorians would have imagined that Indigenous people, who according to the 2021 census comprise just one per cent of the State’s population, were an entirely seperate group of people. Weren’t we persuaded to change the anthem to say “we are one and free”?

But the Government insists Victorians are at war with their Indigenous neighbours and family members. Why else does a government enter into a treaty?

So as the treaty process - that nobody ever voted for - ramps up, it has now been revealed that five treaty guides will each be paid almost $400,000 a year - if they work full time - to oversee the process.