CPAC: Tony Abbott and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price lead speeches in support of No vote on Voice

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has criticized the Voice campaign, saying that this generation of Aboriginal Australians are ‘not victims’ and their counterparts are ‘not oppressors’.

Mr Abbott delivered the keynote address at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday morning at The Star Convention Center in Sydney.

“This generation of Aboriginal Australians are not victims,” he cheered to the crowd.

“This generation of non-Aboriginal Australians are not oppressors, and the last thing we should be doing right now is to entrench victimhood and institutionalize grievances in our governance arrangements.

‘That is why there can only be one response to this referendum proposal, and that is a resounding no.’

Mr Abbott described the referendum proposal as an ‘absolute mockery’ at the CPAC conference

Mr Abbott walked onto the stage in a navy suit and blue tie, to a thunderous cheer and standing ovation from the audience.

There was further cheering when he told the crowd that he would vote no on October 14, when he presumes the referendum will be held for The Voice.

“I say a resounding YES to constitutional equality, and because I say a resounding Yes to Australians moving forward together as one people,” he said.

He described the referendum proposal as an “absolute mockery.”

“It would enshrine race in our Constitution. It would reinforce separatism at the heart of indigenous deprivation,” Abbott said.

“It would enshrine race in our Constitution. It would reinforce separatism, which is at the heart of indigenous deprivation,” Abbott said of Voice’s proposal.

“And it would make our already ramshackle government processes even more viscous.”

Prominent No campaigner Warren Mundine gave the welcome address at the Conservative conference, saying the opponent’s campaign is riddled with “myths and lies”.

Mr Mundine introduced leaders from across the country when he gave the welcome speech shortly after showing the crowd his ‘Vote No’ sticker on his back.

He walked on stage alongside Indigenous Australian Shadow Minister Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.

“The myths and lies in the Yes campaign are all calling me racist names,” Mundine said in his welcome address.

Prominent No campaigner Warren Mundine gave the welcome address at the Conservative conference, saying the opponent’s campaign is full of ‘myths and lies’

‘Migrants, Australians, everyone… we’re all Australians and now they want to drag us back to the bad old days. We must stand up and fight for freedoms and freedoms.”

Mr Mundine said there is ‘horrible statistic after horrible statistic’ in Indigenous communities across the country, but the government has yet to make a change.

He called on the government to stop treating “Indigenous and Torres Strait people as one group.”

‘I don’t need help, Noel Pearson doesn’t need help… But there are people in regional and remote Australia who are struggling and guess what? They’re black and white, pinkish green, every color under the rainbow,’ Mr Mundine said.

Mr Mundine called on the government to stop treating ‘Indigenous and Torres Strait people as one group’

The conference continues, with Senator Price and Alan Jones among others to address the crowd.

New polls have cast doubt on The Voice’s success, with Victoria and Tasmania the only states to cast a yes vote.

The Resolve Political Monitor, conducted for the Nine Newspapers, showed that support for the vote had fallen to 46 percent, down from 63 percent a year ago.

For a referendum to succeed, a majority of voters across Australia and four of the six states must cast a yes vote.