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I Am Tired of the Drama · The Slippery Slope

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  Well, it's been a fairly, well, just traumatic, almost
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  traumatic. I found it traumatic listening
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  to the news for the last week and a half, almost two weeks,
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  the constant. The constant bombardment of what
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  I thought a topic that was done and dusted here in Australia.
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  The voice. The voice referendum.
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  I was firmly on the side of the no camp.
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  OK, I put forward my argument. This is what I believe.
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  This is how I saw it. Voting no.
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  That was it. Person.
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  Indigenous heritage. Jay Fallon.
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  Apparently. Apparently, according to the Yes
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  people who were very, very overwhelmingly defeated, the the
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  No campaign got up. The Yes campaign, the Yes, the
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  Yes argument, overwhelmingly defeated.
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  Apparently, if you voted No, you're racist.
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  You don't love indigenous people.
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  You don't stand by, you don't recognize.
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  The indigenous people of this land, so apparently indigenous
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  people that voted no and I happened to know one or two of
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  them they're all still they're racist virtually that's what and
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  all week, all week just the propaganda coming out over the
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  news and you know we had a a week of a week of silence
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  apparently where people could with it with these apparently
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  the indigenous community just weren't where they were going to
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  be silent on the we were all going to be silent because we
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  were all. Unanimous on this vote.
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  But no, we weren't. You know, we're going to be
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  silent because of the the huge dishonor or, you know, just so
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  emotionally hurt by this. I found it draining, very
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  draining. And an open letter basically
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  accusing people of just being racist because you voted no,
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  because you were able to think for yourself, because you were
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  able to read through the facts and say this is not good for the
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  broader Australian public. For Australians as a whole, this
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  is not good and it's not going to help the indigenous people
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  that actually need the help. This was just going to be
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  another thing that helped the usual suspects that are just
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  lining their pockets with government money.
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  That's all it was going to be with government handouts.
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  That's all it was going to do, the inner inner city in air
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  quotes. Indigenous people, the ones that
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  you know only just discovered they were Indigenous last week.
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  That's the people. That's the group that was going
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  to help. I'm going.
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  To play this video for you before we go any further on I
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  think really, really says something.
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  Well, I won't say any more This, this, have a listen this.
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  Just really. Really says something about the
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  the Yes campaign and who the voice, the voice referendum who
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  was actually going to help. An image that will never leave
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  my mind is the one that was on the front page of the paper of
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  an Aboriginal woman outside Alice Springs who had moved
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  there so she could have dialysis treatment.
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  She was living with six children on a slab of concrete.
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  Now, where were the elders? Where were the the members of
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  the land council who had millions of dollars in the bank?
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  Where were they to help this Aboriginal woman?
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  She was absolutely bereft. And nobody from her own linkages
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  with land councils, with the money provided, none of it was
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  used to come to her aid. There's nothing disadvantaged,
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  Stephen about Linda Burney. There's nothing disadvantaged
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  about. Marcia Langton or Megan Davis?
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  There's nothing disadvantaged about Nell Pearson, but there is
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  a hell of a lot wrong with a woman who's living on a slab of
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  concrete with six children to get dialysis for her healthcare.
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  Now they're the people who need helping.
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  It's not all Aboriginal people at all.
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  For all people of Aboriginal heritage, we have people who
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  have no Aboriginal heritage, who are equally disadvantaged, who
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  are living in cars, mothers with children, living in cars with
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  nowhere to live and no money for food.
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  We have to provide where there's a need.
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  And this whole referendum, this whole treaty question, it is
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  just breaking up the Australian nation and teaching children to
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  be afraid and honestly losing faith.
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  In their own country. There is no pride being taught.
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  In our own country we have built a fantastic country.
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  It doesn't matter where we came from, we all came from somewhere
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  else. Some came 60,000 years ago, some
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  came six years ago. But we have built a magnificent
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  multi multicultural society where we aspire for the best for
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  our people. Now the fact that we have a
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  large group of people who are living very much so in the NT
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  and in. North Queensland and
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  northwestern Australia, who need that attention.
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  This outcome is not going to come from the voice.
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  Exactly this outcome, the outcome was not going to come
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  from the voice like they said that the the these politicians,
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  these inner suburban, like I said in quotes Aboriginal
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  people. I shouldn't say that about some
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  of them, but. These indigenous people, these
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  leaders, they're not the ones that are disadvantaged, the ones
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  that are standing up predominantly crying out for the
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  yes vote and calling everyone else racist.
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  They are not the disadvantaged and all the money that they get
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  splashed around it, It doesn't help the ones that actually need
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  the help, the ones that actually are disadvantaged.
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  It it always goes back to the ones that aren't disadvantaged.
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  The ones like who I spoke about the the Marcus Stewart's of the
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  world you know who who barely needs it.
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  He doesn't need anything. He's not disadvantaged.
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  He's like 116th Aboriginal and yet he all he focuses on is he's
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  Aboriginal. He's indigenous.
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  Forgets the fact that he's extremely, extremely well
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  educated, used his Aboriginal leader.
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  Help fund his education. You don't see him.
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  Is he out in the community helping raise funds for the
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  people that actually need it? This is the problem.
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  The voice was only going to help those who already didn't need
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  the help. And this rhetoric might.
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  I mean the Queensland government, the Queensland
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  government's offering, This is the state that I live in.
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  It's an embarrassment. I I wonder sometimes why?
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  Why is in it? Why is Palache still in
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  government? The Queensland government
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  offering paid leave for indigenous employees who are
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  feeling saddened. We'll we'll check it out
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  together. Right here we go.
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  Like I said it's just this is embarrassing.
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  This is the straits, the state I live in, QLD.
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  Australian public servants offered paid leave to mourn the
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  voice result Queensland government public service
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  servants in one Aussie state. It's Victoria.
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  It's Queensland has been offered five days special paid leave for
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  psychological distress stemming from the rejected Voice to
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  Parliament referendum. In an e-mail circulated to
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  Queensland Government bosses, Public Sector Commissioner David
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  Mackey said Special leave an entitlement that is usually
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  unpaid. As well as sick leave could be
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  offered to staff in need, the move was made to ensure the
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  government workplace remained mentally well and to acknowledge
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  the emotional impact the referendum result would have on
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  1st Nation workers in the public service following the failed
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  referendum result. You know, sometimes I I think
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  sometimes I wonder and do I just come across as a a whinging
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  little? You know, just a whiner.
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  But I'd like to point out I am indigenous, OK?
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  Have indigenous heritage that made no difference.
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  When I when I said no to the jab, then it was like, huh,
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  woof, you're gone 2 weeks, 2 weeks paid leave and you're out.
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  A year of no pay sitting around a year, a year, not allowed to
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  go, not allowed to do your job and we're not going to pay you.
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  But hey, you don't get your way in a vote and all we're going to
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  how about how about how about this, just give you a little pay
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  have a little five days off to mourn.
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  Just just frustrating. You know what I almost, I
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  thought I'm going to have a month off.
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  I can't sit here. Just the news this week was so
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  frustrating. Like you said, the propaganda
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  coming across. Whether we like it or not,
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  whether you can, whether you like it or not, the voice
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  referendum, the voice vote, the Yes campaign lost, the no one.
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  We need to move on. We need to move on.
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  There are big issues going on all around the world and this is
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  not one of them. And the people that really need
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  the help, that really need the help.
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  They were not that. They were not going to benefit
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  from The Voice anyway. That's my opinion.
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  Sick and tired of hearing about it, to be honest.
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  Let me know what you think Queensland paid leave for
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  Borning. Ridiculous.
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  It's my opinion. Thanks for listening to the
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  slippery slope. They just fueled aside, they