I’m a NO!

ANTHONY ALBANESE’S poorly conceived Indigenous Voice to Parliament proposal will not do anything to fix the issues in Aboriginal Australia that he talks about.

Government mishandling, and dishing out money to Aboriginal Australia like it’s confetti without any accountability, is exactly how we have arrived at the situation we see in remote communities around Australia today.

Governments around Australia have spent billions upon billions of dollars on all manner of Aboriginal causes and schemes over many decades.

It poses the obvious question – Where has all this taxpayer money gone and why hasn’t it closed the “Gap”?

Many of the same indigenous elites who have been advising Governments for decades on where to spend this money, are exactly the same people who are now saying that we need to bring in this new Indigenous “Voice” to Parliament…. 

Because it will be SO much different this time.

The past record of these people, who are already very powerful in the corridors of Parliament and government bureaucracy, would clearly indicate it won’t be any different this time around.

Some of these people benefit financially by keeping the wheels of the government-controlled Indigenous industry turning.

The answer to the problem is not more government bureaucracy – but less.

Australians need to reject the Indigenous Voice proposal – by voting NO.

Matt Eggleston
West Perth

The Ed says: You’re right that more government money won’t close the Gap, particularly when most of it disappears within (predominantly white) bureacracies before anything hits the ground. It must come from us all; giving an Indigenous person an even break when they apply for a job, properly valuing Indigenous knowledge (particularly when it comes to our environment – how many people could name more than a handful of bush tucker or medicinal plants?), respectfully acknowledging a 50,000-year-old culture on country we now share and the lasting and devastating impact European arrival had on it, amongst a raft of things we can do. More and more people are doing just this, but they also want to know that their elected representatives are also prepared to listen and learn. A Voice to Parliament is an effective way to ensure that happens. Vote YES.

For women

I JUST want to correct the record, in the article “Some Dicks don’t get it”(Voice, April 1, 2023).

In this article the UK women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (AKA Posie Parker) is falsely referred to as an “anti-trans” activist. 

Keen visited Perth last month, holding an event where women were given a chance to speak about how the erasure of the sex category of women is affecting their lives. 

This erasure was instigated in Australia by the Gillard government in 2013 with the exclusion of sex as a protected characteristic and its replacement with “gender” in the federal sex discrimination act. 

Gender, in this act, being a person’s personal preferred feeling/expression/identity of gender, a circular and empty definition, untethered to reality. 

Subsequently in many states such as Tasmania, Queensland and Victoria, legislation has been passed that allows men to “self ID” as women and in so doing are able to access female sex-protected rights such as access to women-segregated bathrooms, women’s prisons, women’s sports, women’s shortlists, domestic violence shelters, breast feeding services and lesbian dating sites and activities. 

This legislation has been passed under the rubric of “inclusion”. 

Currently the WA government is likely to pass similar laws, with little commotion or debate. 

The problem is women have not been consulted, neither have they given their consent for this to happen. 

“Self ID” eliminates ANY benchmark for what a women is, it allows ANY man to claim to be a legal women and access women protected places, rendering them women NOT protected spaces.

This is why many women try and speak out. 

When they speak out they are always verbally assailed upon and bullied by men. 

Many have been physically attacked by trans rights advocates.

Take a look at what happened in Hobart and Auckland last month at Let Women Speak events there. 

In Auckland a 72-year-old women was assaulted and received a fracture to her head, the media portrayed the protestors’ thuggery as a victory for “inclusion and diversity”. 

Another big problem is the so-called “affirmative care model” involving “transition” of minors, this is advocated for by activists, the Greens and the ALP and lead lobby groups like ACON. 

Overseas experience has shown this to be very contested and dangerous, see what has happened in the UK with the Tavistock gender clinic. 

“Transition” involves taking experimental drugs to interfere with puberty, wrong sex hormones and mutilating surgeries. 

Anyhow, make up your own mind, have a look at Standing for Women on Youtube, you can decide on your own descriptors for Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull. 

Ray Brown
North Perth

The Ed says: We think it’s an apt description. You can dress it up any way you want, but Kellie-Jay just doesn’t like the whole transfolk idea.

Ignore NIMBYs

TO All Concerned; Don’t listen to the bunch of elderly NIMBY’s who all have their quarter acre blocks in Menora and Coolbinia. 

It’s fantastic that someone is willing to spend money on housing in these old suburbs that isn’t a seven-room mansion housing two to four people in it.

I do love old suburbs and historic homes, but in-fill needs to come in somewhere and this block is perfect for that.

Given the amount of homeless and demand for housing it’s not fair this development should have to be downgraded.

The only legitimate concern is the dangerous intersection. The speed of cars coming down the hill needs to be dealt with. 

Whether it be a roundabout/speed bumps/traffic lights. 

Something does need to be done. 

But the suggestion that a possible pedestrian death is the result of this development is an outrageously disgusting and selfish thing to say. 

 I can’t wait to be able to walk 150 metres down to a cafe. 

I’m sick of the ugly vacant block (the owner should be charged extra rates for not doing anything on it for so long – although that’s a separate issue I’d love the community to discuss more). 

Change can be good for everyone. Let’s get on with it.

Marcus Cullam
Coolbinia

For women

I JUST want to correct the record, in the article “Some Dicks don’t get it”(Voice, April 1, 2023).

In this article the UK women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (AKA Posie Parker) is falsely referred to as an “anti-trans” activist. 

Keen visited Perth last month, holding an event where women were given a chance to speak about how the erasure of the sex category of women is affecting their lives. 

This erasure was instigated in Australia by the Gillard government in 2013 with the exclusion of sex as a protected characteristic and its replacement with “gender” in the federal sex discrimination act. 

Gender, in this act, being a person’s personal preferred feeling/expression/identity of gender, a circular and empty definition, untethered to reality. 

Subsequently in many states such as Tasmania, Queensland and Victoria, legislation has been passed that allows men to “self ID” as women and in so doing are able to access female sex-protected rights such as access to women-segregated bathrooms, women’s prisons, women’s sports, women’s shortlists, domestic violence shelters, breast feeding services and lesbian dating sites and activities. 

This legislation has been passed under the rubric of “inclusion”. 

Currently the WA government is likely to pass similar laws, with little commotion or debate. 

The problem is women have not been consulted, neither have they given their consent for this to happen. 

“Self ID” eliminates ANY benchmark for what a women is, it allows ANY man to claim to be a legal women and access women protected places, rendering them women NOT protected spaces.

This is why many women try and speak out. 

When they speak out they are always verbally assailed upon and bullied by men. 

Many have been physically attacked by trans rights advocates.

Take a look at what happened in Hobart and Auckland last month at Let Women Speak events there. 

In Auckland a 72-year-old women was assaulted and received a fracture to her head, the media portrayed the protestors’ thuggery as a victory for “inclusion and diversity”. 

Another big problem is the so-called “affirmative care model” involving “transition” of minors, this is advocated for by activists, the Greens and the ALP and lead lobby groups like ACON. 

Overseas experience has shown this to be very contested and dangerous, see what has happened in the UK with the Tavistock gender clinic. 

“Transition” involves taking experimental drugs to interfere with puberty, wrong sex hormones and mutilating surgeries. 

Anyhow, make up your own mind, have a look at Standing for Women on Youtube, you can decide on your own descriptors for Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull. 

Ray Brown
North Perth

The Ed says: We think it’s an apt description. You can dress it up any way you want, but Kellie-Jay just doesn’t like the whole transfolk idea.