‘Not victims’: Abbott’s big claim on Voice

Former prime minister Tony Abbott has slammed the Voice marketing campaign, saying this era of Aboriginal Australians are “not victims” and their counterparts are “not oppressors”.

Mr Abbott gave the keynote handle on the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday morning at The Star Convention Centre in Sydney.

“This generation of Aboriginal Australians are not victims,” he advised the group filled with cheers.

“This generation of non Aboriginal Australians are not oppressors, and the last thing that we should be doing right now is entrenching victimhood and institutionalising grievance in our governance arrangements.

“That is why there can only be one response to this referendum proposal, and it is an absolutely resounding no.”

Mr Abbott walked onto the stage sporting a navy swimsuit and blue tie to a convincing cheer and standing ovation from the group.

More cheers have been heard when he advised the group he could be voting no come October 14, when he suspects the referendum for the Voice will likely be held.

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

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

“It would entrench race in our Constitution. It would reinforce the separatism, that is at the heart of indigenous disadvantage,” Mr Abbott mentioned.

“And it would make our already creaky governmental processes more gummed up.”

Prominent No campaigner Warren Mundine gave the welcome handle to the conservative convention, the place he mentioned the opposing marketing campaign is filled with “myths and lies”.

Mr Mundine launched leaders from throughout the nation when he gave the welcome handle, shortly after exhibiting the group his “Vote No” sticker on his again.

He walked onto the stage alongside Shadow Minister Indigenous Australians, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.

“The myths and lies in the Yes campaign call me all the racist names,” Mr Mundine mentioned in his welcome handle.

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

Mr Mundine mentioned there may be “dreadful statistic after dreadful statistic” in Indigenous communities throughout the nation, but the federal government is but to alter something.

He known as for the federal government to cease 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 are struggling and guess what? They’re black white, pink green, every colour under the rainbow,” Mr Mundine mentioned.

The convention continues, with Senator Price and Alan Jones amongst others to handle the group.

Fresh polling has forged doubt on the success of The Voice, with Victoria and Tasmania the one states returning a Yes vote.

The Resolve Political Monitor carried out for the Nine Newspapers discovered assist for the voice had fallen to 46 per cent, down from 63 per cent a 12 months in the past.

To succeed a referendum should have a majority of voters throughout Australia and 4 out of six states to forged a sure poll.