Veteran Indigenous Rights Activist, on the Voice to Parliament
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At the forefront of doubt around the Voice is the substantial power it will really have in being able to advise decisions that concern First Nations people.
Veteran Indigenous rights activist Gary Foley questions this too, saying the Voice to Parliament in reality won’t do a thing.
Gary Foley via State Library of NSW
The campaigner says the referendum will fall victim to ignorant politics and that previous advisory bodies in the past were victims of this.
[People don’t learn from the lessons of history, and the lessons of history show that every single Aboriginal advisory body that has ever existed in the history of Australia has been completely ignored at the moment it started, saying stuff that was too controversial, and the Government closed it down’]
Like Foley, many believe that the Government’s lack of information about the Voice and how exactly it will operate leaves many Indigenous people in the dark about what exactly the Government is asking them to commit to.
Among reasons for casting a No vote, the official Australian Government referendum pamphlet lists ‘THERE ARE NO DETAILS’. It goes on to explain ‘we do not know how it will help disadvantaged communities and close the gap’.
Foley campaigns for the First Nations community in not committing to something that he is not informed on and something that he believes will ‘not change anything’.
While many see Gary Foley’s views on the Voice to Parliament as controversial, Foley has seen the outcomes and effects of various Australian Government promises that have continued to fuel the gap within our nation.
[The future of Aboriginal people is in their hands]
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