There remains one vital factor in the answer to the question 'Who is an Australian?' and that factor is a commitment to Australia and to its future. It is that common commitment which binds the Australian-born of the seventh or eighth generation and all those of their fellow-Australians born in any of the one hundred thirty countries from which our people are drawn. In Australia there is no hierarchy of descent; there must be no privilege of origin. The commitment is all! The commitment to Australia is the one thing needful to be a true Australian."
Robert James Lee Hawke AC, GCL, would turn in his grave if he had to listen to Albanese today! His voice from the grave says 'No' to the VOICE!
The only way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. The VOICE would normalise instead of overcome racial separation. I am sick and tired of having to pay respect to elders past and present and being welcomed to my own country. We all came from somewhere else. What if Indians claimed 'original inhabitant' status because their country was once part of the supercontinent of Gondwanaland? Let's not open this can of worms!
