Voice's 'benevolent racism' the elephant in the room we must address

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Voice's 'benevolent racism' the elephant in the room we must address
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The Voice's crucial flaw is that it lumps all 900,000 plus Australians who identify as Indigenous into one homogenous group, and says they all need exactly the same thing, writes Kel Richards.

The expression – meaning a significant problem or issue which is obviously present but ignored or avoided as a subject of discussion, often because it is comfortable to do so - has been around since 1935 and used widely since the 1980s.

The crucial flaw in the proposed Voice to Parliament is that it lumps all 900,000 plus Australians who identify as Indigenous into one homogenous group, and says they all need exactly the same thing, writes Kel Richards. Picture: Getty Images Well, the first thing it does is to lump all 900,000 plus Australians who identify as Indigenous into one homogenous group, and to say they all need exactly the same thing— this proposed Voice to Parliament.But the 900,000 plus Aussies who identify as Indigenous are a widely diverse group of people.

Those who live in remote and rural Australia are being asked to build a new Jerusalem on poor lands with ancient cultural hab­its.

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