As Australia reaches five days out from the 2023 national referendum on including in its foundational Constitution the provision for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Voice to Parliament - for the record and in no particular order a window on the public debate via X/Twitter.
In which those supporting the "No" position chose to repeat political lies, untruths, deliberate errors of fact, conspiracy theories and debunked urban myths, while Indigenous voices are speaking their truth sometimes with an edge of humour and "Yes" supporters struggling to be polite, on occasion failing but also displaying quirky humour, made their point:
PSA warning for mob: the polls are absolutely feral… vote but be prepared.
— Larissa Baldwin-Roberts (@Riss_Bundjalung) October 6, 2023
Just run the gauntlet to absentee vote
— Gomeroi (@AmyCreighton123) October 5, 2023
Redneck racist to the right and YT saviours to the left
And 1% of us FN voters stuck in the middle with you #Referendum2023
Newsflash paddy, NO voters couldn’t give a stuff what Dutton or Clive or ANY ‘celebrity ‘ thinks or does on The Voice. we made up our minds to vote NO as soon as the referendum was announced . this ISNT left vs right or labor vs liberal you clueless moron #VoteNo
— Paddo 🇦🇺 🏇🏏🎣⛳️🐕🐈🐐🐓🦆🐂 (@padders001) October 7, 2023
“As public debate on the voice referendum fuels hate speech and discriminatory rhetoric, non-Indigenous Australians hold a responsibility to show empathy, respect and care” https://t.co/7Cv5av8rKo
— First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria (@firstpeoplesvic) September 29, 2023
Noel Pearson schools Liberal Dan Tehan on why legislation for #TheVoice is supposed to be drafted after the referendum, as with former referendums, accusing him of “conflating the creation of legislation with the adoption of a constitutional referendum”💥#QandA #Yes23 pic.twitter.com/19nUvy8g0c
— stranger (@strangerous10) October 2, 2023
Katherine Murphy calls out Dutton & the No campaign’s “deliberate” strategy for “conflict” & hits the nail on the head on the struggle for reconciliation through a Voice
— stranger (@strangerous10) October 7, 2023
“If racism sets the standard for what we can & cannot do in this country, we’re in a bad place” #Insiders pic.twitter.com/fNLzhiJDhS
The Voice itself is not divisive.
— Peter Wicks (@madwixxy) October 8, 2023
Divisive people have ensured that the debate to achieve one is divisive.#auspol https://t.co/CIfnJ47ARW
Question. Is there any evidence of bare-faced, damaging and outrageous lies coming from anyone in the #VoteYES camp?
— MFW (@MFWitches) October 6, 2023
We don’t mean info which may be inadvertently misrepresented, but something like the (now deleted) tweet below which is an outright and deliberate lie and is… pic.twitter.com/HQwBuFQAhJ
Almost all woketard elites hiding behind locked replies.
— Aborigine supremacy is racist. (@Tobaccotime) September 19, 2023
Woketard elites hiding their Yes signs up high.
25 days until we destroy their plan to make aborigines the constitutional master race.
Looks like the woketards have never been more on the ropes. https://t.co/ClNwgCEzWp
Senator Michaelia Cash at the Liberals for No event against the Indigenous voice to parliament in Perth @australian pic.twitter.com/tTkuL1WwQ4
— Paige Taylor (@paigeataylor) August 20, 2023
Vote NO and demand the details - A bit of perspective
— Frank DAY (@FrankDA28404970) October 8, 2023
We already have the Voice: • 3,278 Aboriginal corporations • 243 Native title bodies • 48 Land councils • 35 Regional councils • 122+ Aboriginal agencies • 3 Advisory bodies • 145 Health Organisations • 11 Ind Fed MPs
To the Australian people, young and old.
— Patrick Dodson (@SenatorDodson) September 3, 2023
I have lived through many of these extraordinary moments in this country.
The Voice is now our moment.
Vote Yes.#VoteYes23 #VoteYesAustralia
pic.twitter.com/OxrzS7r1EP
First colonisers of Australia were Macassans not Aboriginals. Dutch were amongst the first Europeans to discover Western Australia, French discovered Southern Australia & Tasmania,& English Eastern Australia. So do contemporary Aussies have to pay rent & reparations to them? https://t.co/uE2nkWmDqw
— Jacked Off (@Jack53596930) March 11, 2023
Like most migrants who came to Australia worked their asses off to give themselves and their family a better life.
— Roller (@roller2426) August 4, 2023
So when the inner city globalist puppet aboriginals want us to pay the rent, can we charge a service fee with interest on improvements made to "their" land?
The progressive No vote has been a key part of the broader No Campaign, and Tarneen Onus Brown of the Blak Sovereignty movement, who is now an advocate for Yes, tells us how much damage they think has already been done by the No camp. pic.twitter.com/SnEVlyTyRl
— The Project (@theprojecttv) October 3, 2023
Wow 😳 doubling down.
— ValGlass🇦🇺 (@AussieVal10) October 5, 2023
Ray says “if you don’t know, vote no” is an ignorant statement. He said to go find out…but find out from whom?
The details are being kept secret. No one knows what they are agreeing to until it passes.
I DON’T TRUST POLITICIANS!#VoteNO23Australia pic.twitter.com/31TGtY5hoY
“Despite being one of this country's shortest-serving Prime Ministers, Tony Abbott inflicted more damage to Indigenous affairs and to our communities than most others.
— Dr Tracy Westerman AM (@TracyWesterman) October 8, 2023
“It is an insult to all Australian people that someone who failed so drastically continues to be given media… https://t.co/XbNpC8lLEh
Noel Pearson believes all people of European origin are white cunts, in contrast I do not feel the same about all Aborigines, however I do single him out as a black cunt. #VoteNO
— Vote No to the racist TREATY. (@ABiologicalMale) October 4, 2023
There are none so blind as those who will not see. Albanese is using the plight of Aboriginal people as a tool, nothing more, to divide our nation with the false belief that those who want a united country with the same rights for all people are racist. That is a hideous lie.!!
— Ron Jones (@RoJone252) October 8, 2023
Once again I would like to thank the Cook government for their contribution to the NO campaign.
— Despicable Meme (@pugnamstulti) October 8, 2023
It was a great working model of how the voice would operate in real world terms.
Showing us all the greed and extortion demonstrated by aboriginal activists as soon as they smelt power
They are line all of us - migrants to this land or born of migrants. We all have a voice - some louder than others - a yes vote will not change Aboriginal lives - they like all of us have to choose a better version of ourselves. Take responsibility. #VoteNo
— Filepe Lagos (@filepel) October 8, 2023
immutable land title is a fundamental right in Aussie. Under aboriginal land claims freehold title cannot be breached. However under the VOICE the attached map shows the break up of the country and the aboriginals owners of every inch. Aboriginal elite want you to pay rent pic.twitter.com/NV1ssCGwzV
— Baron of Burleigh (@burrosavic) April 10, 2023
When it matters most, Australians show up for each other. Vote Yes! Let’s do this Australia! ✌🏾 ❤️ pic.twitter.com/zQrUUl959W
— Professor Dr Megan Davis (@mdavisqlder) October 6, 2023
Yes Yes Yes it's a UN plot, so vote NO.https://t.co/BkbT1InBc8
— Bill Koutalianos (@NoDirectAction) October 4, 2023
Thomas Mayor is a fake Aboriginal, now worth millions thanks to NTG ALP CM Gunner , Fyles & Maritime Union colluding with ALBO for 6 years - Australia’s Aboriginal Money Laundering Unit is alive & well as Australia is no longer a democracy. #voteno https://t.co/16bMCQwa0v
— Jane Davies (@JaneDav97215588) October 7, 2023
i don’t want anyone’s pity, money, backyards, regrets or apologies.
— Sana Nakata (@DrSanaNakata) October 6, 2023
we know what we are doing. we have always done it.
we know the place where the stars meet the seas. it is where we are free. it is where we once lived & it is there we are determined to live again. pic.twitter.com/TJl2BYu80s
Today we find out that Ray Martin is an Aboriginal , because of Bertha four generations ago.
— steven (@nogulagsagain) October 7, 2023
This means Ray’s kids , a multi millionaire, will not have to pay HECS, get free dental, will get into Uni easier and get housing loans at 1.5%.
Your kids will get none of the above. pic.twitter.com/tvc4wbS8Sh
Newsflash paddy, NO voters couldn’t give a stuff what Dutton or Clive or ANY ‘celebrity ‘ thinks or does on The Voice. we made up our minds to vote NO as soon as the referendum was announced . this ISNT left vs right or labor vs liberal you clueless moron #VoteNo
— Paddo 🇦🇺 🏇🏏🎣⛳️🐕🐈🐐🐓🦆🐂 (@padders001) October 7, 2023
If we had all these backyards we supposed to be after then geez we wouldn't need a voice 🤣
— Gomeroi (@AmyCreighton123) October 6, 2023
If Australians are stupid enough to vote in the Voice , they deserve to pay reparations, rent on the land they own , pay for access to beaches and parks ,have an unelected panel of Aboriginals dictating public policy.
— Dragon Heart (@nichols_ge41345) October 5, 2023
It's all in the Uluru statement that this is the future.
This PM is planning to divide Australia, same as Democratic Israel n facist Palestine...vote NO TO DIVIDING AUSTRALIA INTO FACIST VS DEMOCRACY..WE WILL END UP LIKE ISRAEL. PALESTINEIS BACKED BY IRAN AND RUSSIA. VOTE NO TO DIVISION BY FACIST VOICE N PM
— Carmie (@Powell4Carmel) October 8, 2023
Albo Voice-Treaty
— bill/sparow (@BillSparow1) September 16, 2023
Do you want to pay Aboriginals rent on your property? pic.twitter.com/ewZ4S9zgaI
When I voting #Yes23 in Ballina, some old, middle class white bloke who looked like he was doing just fine on franking credits sidled up to me outside the polling booth and tried to thrust a Vote No pamphlet in my face. It took all my self control not to knee him in the balls. 🤬
— 💧 Johny Miller (@jmil400) October 7, 2023
Babbling of more lies dribbling from the mouth of a snake-oil salesman on a crusade to divide Our Nation. His legacy will be that of a PM striving to insert Apartheid into Our Constitution. His greater concern is how Australia will be viewed on the world platform. 🇦🇺 pic.twitter.com/gGnlaD2w1q
— Al Swearengen (@LarryWa01884739) October 8, 2023
It is racist, you are racist , we all want a united Australia, this is the most divisive disgusting referendum in our history. By all means vote how you like, it is called living in a democratic society, but you are racist if you vote to divide our country by race
— Equerry123456 (@equerry123456) October 8, 2023
My heart aches tonight for my dear family and friends in the Yaegl, Bundjalung and Gumbaynggirr nations as charlatan @KevinHoganMP actively fights against your desire to be heard, to be seen, to be recognised. This letterbox drop is horrific. What a deceitful, divisive fiend. pic.twitter.com/Uj5IoeqKxZ
— Mason Hell-Cat (@masonhellcat) September 12, 2023
Reparations, separate state/parliament, reparations, rent, land back.
— Prisoner DJ Trump (@dedputinsociety) October 7, 2023
Who do you think pays that rent, reparations? Whose land do they want to take back
That is radical, it is divisive and because of that this evil referendum will fail
I love Aussie TikTok calling BS on the Sunday Tele and their No campaign front page exclusive of "polling with no source and admission of minuscule sample so it's not legit anyway" (cough, cough) Love it! #VoteYes
— Professor Dr Megan Davis (@mdavisqlder) October 8, 2023
Get serious
— zabsteroz (@Zabsteroz) July 26, 2023
For a start two of the key Voice promoters are more non Aboriginal or not at all Aboriginal
And the Voice will usher in Reparations, rent, tax breaks you name it
Why should non aboriginals pay rent to other non aboriginals? Tick a boxers claiming money meant for ATSI
You have to be kidding there has been so much animosity from the yes camp to those who are going to vote no
— adriana (@moonlightami) October 5, 2023
starting from the Prime Minister who called the No voters chicken little Pearson. Calling as white cunts, including others and let’s not forget mayo and what he said on…
If you are confused or don’t understand “the voice” vote this week, Google it! Vote informed ya legends xox pic.twitter.com/d8InIoOgJP
— Tom Cardy (@Tomycardy) October 7, 2023
On prepoll today lots of good vibes, #YES voters and some very strange NO voters.
— Ben Davison (@Ben_Davison1) October 6, 2023
Including one woman who didn’t take a flyer from my colleague, Dale, and when I said “Fair enough, have a nice day.” Turned around to yell “And I’m not a racist!”
So we were like.. pic.twitter.com/dRBaE66HJ9
“It’s called a fair go mate… yeah” It’s that simple. Vote Yes for a fair go on October 14! #VoteYes #VoiceToParliament #auspol #UluruStatement #VoteNo #Yes23 pic.twitter.com/xkk8hxLuYX
— eddie synot (@EddieSynot) September 30, 2023
This is what yes looks like in 95 languages. Yes in English and in 94 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander living languages.
— Dr Liz Allen (@DrDemography) October 4, 2023
The colours reflect the Torres Strait Islander flag. #Yes23 #VoiceToParliament (image credit: Paul Girrawah House) pic.twitter.com/Z4mmc4qbP2
Hi from Hobart! Why does a tiny state like Tasmania get an equal number of Senators as bigger states like Vic & NSW? Cos our Constituion guarantees the historic political communities, the former colonies, a fair & equal Voice in the system - even the very small ones! This… pic.twitter.com/XvbVwYlFGj
— Shireen Morris (@ShireenMorrisMs) October 7, 2023
