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Peta Credlin Warns Indigenous Voice Will End Australia Day Forever With Abolishing ‘Invasion Day’ As Their First Move: ‘I Feel A Ploy’
- Influential broadcaster, writer says 2023 could be the last Australia Day
- Ms Credlin warned that Voice in Parliament would change the date
- She wrote an argument in the column for the australian journal
Today could be the country’s last ‘Australia Day’ to be celebrated on January 26, according to Peta Credlin.
The political commentator believes that if the Indigenous Voice to Parliament is approved in a referendum, which could be held in mid-August, his first act could be to push for the abolition or transfer of the national holiday.
Even if Australia Day is reimagined on a different date and more in line with respecting the ancestral land claim of Australia’s indigenous people, it could be unrecognizable.
Make sure you enjoy their Australia Day, because according to Peta Credlin, it could easily be our last.
Counter-protesters show their support for Australia Day at an Invasion Day rally in Sydney on Thursday.
“If the Voice had its way, as the Prime Minister says it normally should, it is far more likely that any future Australia Day will be celebrated on the anniversary of (a new) treaty… between the Australian government and First Nations. , Credlin speculated in an opinion piece for T.the aussie.
While the proposed Voice does not have the power to force the issue by writing laws or administering programs, it still has a powerful role. It would have ‘responsibility…for advising the Australian Parliament and Government on national matters of importance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’.
For this reason, Credlin believes Australia Day would quickly become a target for Voice to Parliament.
Striking the end of the January 26 version of Australia Day, while still a popular holiday with many Australians, would be considered a great nod to Voice’s tenure.
“While Anthony Albanese continues to say he doesn’t want to change the date of Australia Day, I sense a ploy,” Credlin wrote in the aussie..
‘He is telling the activists ‘wait for your moment, the revolution is coming.’ But it is not only the date that is at stake.
“It’s quite possible that one voice representation is that Australia Day shouldn’t be celebrated at all.”
In practice, the Voice is likely to be a group that would advise the federal government and parliament on indigenous policy issues such as health, education, economic disadvantage, and social problems.
Credlin criticized the loss of national spirit in the Labor Party since the Hawke and Keating era, when those leaders wanted to strengthen recognition of Australia Day.
Every year Australia Day is the subject of huge Invasion Day protests on the streets of the nation’s capitals, and the momentum to change the date seems to be increasing year on year.
Ms Credlin wrote that Voice in Parliament could make the emotional point that many indigenous people regret the date, which marks the landing of the First Fleet at Botany Bay.
The referendum is expected to be on a simple question, such as ‘Do you support an amendment to the Constitution that would establish an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice?’
The wording of that question was drafted by the Albanian government and revealed by the Prime Minister late last year.
Albanese has previously said that any future version of Australia Day is far more likely to be celebrated on the anniversary of a treaty between the Australian government and First Nations.
Invasion Day demonstrations are now common across Australia. Protesters are pictured at one on Thursday in Sydney
Such an agreement could be years away.
In practice, the Voice is likely to be a group that would advise the federal government and parliament on indigenous policy issues such as health, education, economic disadvantage, and social problems.
It would not be able to veto any government decision and it will have no power to execute programs.
In general, the purpose of Voice is to improve the representation of Indigenous Australians at the highest levels.