I’ve made it a link, as well, because as it is it’s kinda teeny.
Here I am being disagreeable, right ? – wrong.
My first reaction when the Voice issue started being topical was that I was very pro. But I’ve changed my mind after reading a shitload of information like this piece that comes from the Financial Review.
I suggest you click on the small version up there of the article, and go read the legible version.
It ought to open your eyes.
DOWNUNDER WITH BOODZ 
I love your blog Margaret Rose. I don’t know if you are aware that, if my research is correct, Louise Clegg is married to Liberal politician, Angus Taylor.
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I’m indeed flattered, Catherine, that you read and appreciate my ramblings !! :)
I, too, detest Angus Taylor and everything he stands for; but does Louise’s being married to him mean she’s likely to be providing incorrect info. to us all ???
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Hmm… interesting M-R. Need to think more about this Voice. Still feeling pro but it’s so hard to sort out the wheat from the chaff.
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Imnsho, Sue, the wording is far too open.
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You know so much about American politics and I know virtually nothing about goings on in Australia. I plead too uninformed to have an opinion at this time.
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But I only know about your politics because I had a huge crush on Barack Obama; otherwise I’d be just as ignorant as any Aussie. [grin]
I inserted a link in the post (3rd par) so that you non-Australians could find out a bit about what’s going down ..
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Hmmm, I don’t feel that this is balanced reporting. It is Louise’s opinion piece Louise’s and her affiliation calls her perspective into question. And the emotive crash through phrase referring to the stuff ups in the Whitlam government.
The voice is a starting point and people are generally afraid of change. What dangerous waters we may dip our toes in if 1% of the population gained control of their own country that we took from them. These fears of a stymied parliament sounds a bit like the Morrison Abbot years when nothing happened but we did survive that. A slow torturous legal process is something all lawyers know well.
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OK dullink – point me at a piece that’s ‘balanced’ ..
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It is hard to find – the Guardian perhaps. WordPress blogs…..
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No further questions, m’Lud ..
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It isn’t hard to write a piece that is balanced! Remember the reports from the ABC in the 70s?
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I just want you to show me one on this topic, Amanda ..
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I know but really it is just presenting the two sides without judgement. (Notwithstanding bias)
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I accept your view without criticism.
But I believe this issue to be one where it’s likely to be impossible to read an unbiased opinion; so that anything presented is likely to be worthy of your original comment.
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You may be right.
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I agree with you completely Amanda. Paid journalistic opinion pieces are not evidential. “Follow the evidence” is a tried and true tenant of both law and science.
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As do I, I promise ! But I am convinced the wordings thus far come up with are too radical.
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Following the evidence is not complicated. And it is much easier to write this way.
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If you’re concerned consider comparing with New Zealand and Canadian First Nations Peoples’ Constitutional involvement and wordings. I haven’t myself.
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Ah listen, you Irish stirrer, you .. How dare you offer a possible solution about which you’re totally ignorant ?!! That is a very IRISH thing to do !!! [grin]
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I enjoyed reading the comments and your back and forth dialogue. I don’t completely understand the context of the article, but the greater point about balanced reporting is something I understand. I have recently stopped reading opinion pieces, at least for the most part. There are so few voices I even care to hear! I admire your fight! You haven’t given up, and I think perhaps I have–or I’m getting close!
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Suffice it to say, dear Debra my beautiful friend, that what’s going down here is our new(ish) Government wanting to include in the Australian Constitution some wording to give our First Nation what’s being called “a voice” in Government. The issue raises strong feelings, as you’ve seen: and even though I’m not against it, I want the wording to be less open to being mucked about with.
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