Indigenous leaders of the Yes campaign have denounced the racism associated with the No result, and will push ahead to establish a Voice framework anyway. A statement has been issued which said: “We accept that the majority of non-Indigenous voting Australians have rejected recognition in the Australian Constitution. We do not for one moment accept that this country is not ours,” the statement said. “It is the legitimacy of the non-Indigenous occupation in this country that requires recognition, not the other way around. Our sovereignty has never been ceded.” By implication, there is no sovereignty to non-indigenous Australia. This statement has been issued where it was stated that the next big thing was a treaty, as there was an “occupation” of this land, which belonged to Aboriginals and no-one else. What, no multicultural diversity as a strength talk?
Let’s get that in context. The creation of a modern world, as distinct from tribal life hunting and gathering, was done by the settlement of Australia by the dreaded British. The doctrine must therefore reject modernity. Thus, if every building and modern evidence of civilisation could be removed, and the land restored to just desert bushland, these guys would be happy. Along with this, the descendants of the invaders need to leave. Ok, carrying the thought experiment forward, how then would the remaining indigenous population support itself by tribal hunting and gathering, as present population numbers are too great? They might want the infrastructure to be left as reparations, while the invaders go. But even here, there would not be enough indigenous people to kick start a modern economy.