Know what the greatest fear our judges faced in deciding who would be the winner of The Bug’s Voice Referendum Racial Dog-Whistling Shithead Award trophy?
And why the announcement has been delayed a few days as they wrestled with that dilemma?
It was simply this. Will they be accused of being racists themselves if they pick two Aboriginals to share the award. They finally agreed – yes, they probably will – but have now steeled themselves and here it comes!
Nyunggai Warren Mundine and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price have been announced joint winners of The Bug‘s Voice Referendum Racial Dog-Whistling Shithead Award trophy!
Our judges will stick with their view that if two people proudly and happily spearhead a No campaign that at its very core was a shameless dogwhistling exercise at the far-too-many racists among our midst, then they too are racial dog-whistlers without peer – or indeed shame.
And it was not as if the torrents of shit pouring from these two shitheads were in any way inferior to the crap spewing from their white conspirators anyway.
Worse, they have sold their own mob down the creek for no discernible reason or advantage. They have willfully helped sink a very modest proposal – a non-binding, advisory voice to our parliament that would have seen money better spend in resolving FNP disadvantages across so many life markers. They trumpeted their own success stories with the covert message: Any blackfella could do the same if they wanted to so they don’t need any help along the way.
Both spearheaded one of the biggest fibs of the debate: that FNP were pretty much divided on the Voice. Their message to whities – one that totally ignored all polls showing strong FNP support for the Voice – was clear and simple: why should you vote for something they can’t even agree on?
The vote results in the remote camps and Aboriginal settlements have made such a mockery of this claim that Price has had to eject more putrid shit from her gob, claiming the Australian Electoral Commission has somehow deliberately skewed the first nations vote.
This, from the woman who also claimed there was no lasting downside from colonisation to her peoples. What, she’s never seen a Closing the Gap update?
Al least Mundine can be credited with some honesty: at the outset, he declared he owned mines and having to deal with the local mob was bad enough without a wider voice having its say!
No, the judges will stick with their view that these two are dreadful racial dog-whistlers. They supported the basic dog-whistling argument that a voice for First Nations people was racist and divisive because white Australians weren’t being offered the same thing.
They supported the basic dog-whistling argument that battlers everywhere facing a cost of living crisis were right to be angry because their PM had taken his eye off the ball because he was off pushing the Blackfellas’ cause. Not that it was the blackfellas’s cause, really. Mundine and Price happily politicised the issue by calling it the PM’s voice. A lie. Labor’s Voice. A lie. Canberra’s voice. A lie. Elitists’ Voice. A lie. The issue politicised. The outcome assured.
They supported every basic dog-whistling argument mounted during the campaign. That the 2017 Uluru statement from the heart was a couple of dozen pages of black anger, resentment and demands. That whities were going to lose their homes and businesses. That whities would have to pay to swim on their local beach. That the names of our towns and cities would be changed to Blackfella titles. That the United Nations would take over Australia.
These two racial, dog-whistling sell-outs of their own people totally deserved to share this trophy. They should hold it with pride seeing they both belong to political parties that have now abruptly walked away from a second referendum based solely on constitutional recognition of our first nations’ ownership of this nation for 65,000 years – yep, another monstrous lie told for no other reason than to con Australians: vote this referendum down and have we got a better deal for you!
And the upshot of all this? As anyone with any nous could have guessed, these two racial dog-whistlers are now being rapidly sidelined by their own parties’ leaderships who have absolutely no interest in any treaty or truthtelling down the track.
Nyunggai Warren Mundine and Jacinta Price will no doubt cling to like-minded friends as they realise they are no longer needed and are of no longer of any use to the federal Opposition.
Editor’s note: Our judges report that they had originally wanted to include former Greens but now independent Senator Lidia Thorpe in a three-way tie for the trophy but decided she best be left alone to deal with any ongoing health issues centred around the fact she’s clearly out of her fucking gourd! Ooh, is it racist to say that?
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