Anthony Albanese’s concert-T shirt and Jodie Haydon’s LinkedIn posts dramatically contradict the PM’s claim a treaty won’t come after the Voice

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his partner Jodie Haydon have publicly expressed their support for a treaty with First Nations people after the Voice – despite the Prime Minister telling Australia that the vote on an Indigenous vote in parliament will have nothing to do with a treaty.

Mr Albanese repeatedly stressed that the proposed Indigenous advisory body was ‘not about a treaty’ during a fiery interview with broadcaster Ben Fordham on his 2GB radio show last Wednesday.

And now footage has surfaced of the Prime Minister donning a Midnight Oil T-shirt with the words ‘Voice, Truth, Treaty’ at a farewell performance at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion just nine months ago.

This was three months after Mr Albanese outlined plans for holding a referendum to recognize Aboriginal Australians in the constitution and introduce a vote in parliament, based on the Uluru Declaration of the Heart.

Voice, Treaty and Truth are the three pillars of the Uluru Declaration, released in 2017. Midnight Oil is a staunch supporter of the Uluru Declaration from the Heart and the establishment of an Indigenous voice for parliament.

Mr. Albanese’s partner, Ms. Haydon, also wrote of her support for the Uluru statement in several now-deleted posts on her LinkedIn account.

In LinkedIn posts unearthed shortly after Mr Albanese’s election last year, Ms Haydon wrote: ‘For me this week I commit to re-reading the ‘Uluru Statement from the Heart’, it has three themes: Vote. Agreement. Voice.’

‘We so desperately need a First Nations vote in Parliament… it would become an institution of lasting significance for First Nations and all of Australia’.

In a post last year, she shared a cartoon of an Aboriginal rights protester with the caption, “Sovereignty has never been relinquished. Always has been, always will be Aboriginal land. #ulurustatementfromtheheart #treaty #changethedate,” in which she appears to be calling for a treaty.

Ms Haydon deleted her LinkedIn profile when Daily Mail Australia published a story about her posts. She had previously stated that as the prime minister’s partner, she did not wish to comment politically.

In his interview with Fordham, Mr Albanese said The Voice was not about reparations and repeatedly said ‘this is not about a treaty’.

“I can’t say it any clearer, compensation has nothing to do with what people will vote for later this year.”

Mr. Fordham asked, ‘I’m talking about after (the voice). There are three stages, after we have passed through the Voice, is it normal to assume that we have passed through the Voice?’

Mr. Albanese said, “No, it’s not natural.”

But Mr Albanese has agreed to ‘fully’ implement the Uluru Declaration from the heart – including a Makarrata Commission with the ultimate goal of reaching a treaty between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians.

Daily Mail Australia approached the Prime Minister’s office for comment.

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Monday criticized Albanian for wearing the band’s T-shirt when he spoke to Radio 2GB about the referendum. .

“I suppose that’s the problem with making yourself a billboard,” said Mr. Abbott.

“I go back to that first statement he made as prime minister: ‘The new government is fully committed to the Uluru declaration from the heart’.

“In other words, Voice, Treaty, Truth ‘in full.'”

“Therefore, as I said, it was a moment of amnesia for the Prime Minister to deny here in this chair last week that the Voice had anything to do with a treaty, it has everything to do with a treaty.”

The whole point of having a voice, if the activists are to be believed, is to get the treaty-making process going. And ministers have also said that.’

Australia is currently one of the few Commonwealth countries without a treaty with its First Nations peoples.

Mr Abbott, who has been one of The Voice’s most outspoken critics and perhaps most opposed to a former Prime Minister’s proposal, told Fordham he did not want Australia to be split up on the basis of race.

“I don’t want our country to be divided by origin or race,” he said.

“I don’t want to see indigenous separatism reinforced in our constitution and I don’t want the government’s affairs to be further whitewashed.”

This claim by Mr Abbott comes despite the fact that the Australian Constitution already refers to race in section 51 and section 25.

Attorney General Mark Dreyfus has also rejected claims that the Voice would include race in the constitution.

Mr Abbott argued that he was in favor of ‘Indigenous recognition’ but claimed the vote was purely a ‘power grab by activists’.

“We don’t give the elderly their own voice, we don’t give migrants a special voice, we don’t give young people or people with disabilities a special voice,” he said.

“Everyone has the same voice in the national parliament, and now there are 11 indigenous people in the national parliament.”

“That’s a very good voice for the indigenous people and let’s keep the national parliament as the only voice for all of us.”

Mr Abbott also denounced ‘woke companies’ that provided an ‘avalanche of money’ for the Yes campaign.

Fordham asked Mr Abbott why he did not push for constitutional recognition of Indigenous peoples during his time as prime minister.

Mr Abbott replied that he was ‘rolled’ before he was able to.

When asked why the Coalition never went ahead with the recognition of the Indigenous people after he left office, Mr Abbott claimed to have been ‘sidetracked’ by the Uluru statement of heart.

It comes as polls show support for The Voice has remained at just under 50 per cent, with Two Resolve Political Monitor polls for The Sydney Morning Herald finding that 48 per cent of voters would vote yes and 52 per cent would vote no.

The Voice to Parliament referendum is expected to be held sometime between October and December this year.