Angry Anderson announces that he is voting No to the Voice: ‘We mainstream Australians are not racist and are tired of being told we are’

Veteran rocker Gary ‘Angry’ Anderson has given an impassioned explanation as to why he is voting ‘No’ in the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

The Rose Tattoo frontman said after listening to Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and others that he does not believe the referendum’s success will help address “the real issues” facing Aboriginal people.

He also criticized that anyone who opposes the establishment of an advisory body to inform the government is merely ‘racist’.

“We, regular Australians, are not racist and we are tired of being told that we are simply because we were born white,” he wrote in a lengthy Facebook post.

The referendum, to be held on October 14, aims to enshrine First Nations People in the Constitution and establish a voice for Parliament that would advise the government on issues facing Indigenous Australians.

Anderson fears the Voice will become yet another ineffective bureaucracy that sucks taxpayers’ money and does little to effect change.

‘Since the late 1970s, when I first heard the term ‘the Aboriginal industry’, we have all seen how this industry has grown and unfortunately, like most other bureaucracies, become an ineffective giant, a toothless tiger, a bottomless sink has become one where so much of our tax money is spent every year with little result,” he said.

“What we have seen recently is that some of these representatives, whether individuals, departments, corporations or some of those elected to our parliament, have become obscenely rich with our taxed dollars. It seems that very few of our dollars reach most of us. need!’

The singer claims Australians are being told that the inequality issues facing Indigenous Australians are ‘our fault’ and that voting ‘yes’ will solve the problems.

‘Let me make it clear that I don’t believe them! So it’s a NO from me!’ he said.

“For decades, this industry of radical voices has tried to blame, shame, and intimidate us into believing we are the problem.

‘Well, I’ll say it loud and clear now: I never accepted that! I don’t accept that! and I will never accept it!

While Anderson said the way people vote is a deeply personal and individual decision, the Voice referendum was such a “momentous moment in our history” that it was “timely” for people like him to “speak out and speak out.” explain where we stand and why’.

In expressing his views, Anderson said he had discussed them with the other Rose Tattoo members and had their permission to make them public.

He did not urge people to vote a certain way, but implored them to clearly write ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ clearly on the ballot paper “so that your vote is not lost, our future depends on it, our future lies in your hands. !’

Despite saying he rarely voices his political opinions, Anderson previously unsuccessfully ran for NSW Parliament in 2011 as the junior partner candidate of the national conservative coalition, the National Party.

That same year he campaigned against Labour’s carbon tax and supported Liberal Tony Abbott, who successfully won office in a campaign opposing the plan.

Anderson again raised his hand to stand as a candidate for the National Party in the 2015 NSW elections, before withdrawing for personal reasons.

He has been an outspoken critic of allowing increased Muslim immigration to Australia and of accepting asylum seekers arriving by boat.

Anderson is the only original member of Rose Tattoo, which is currently on a national tour, still with the band that formed in 1976 and whose hits included We Can’t Be Beaten and Bad Boy for Love.