Bet there’s one person happier than I am to see the anniversary of the Voice to Parliament vote now in our rear-vision mirrors.

And that’s one Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister of Australia.

Twelve months on from Australia overwhelmingly rejecting the Voice to Parliament, Peter Dutton and his Opposition parties, with the never-ending support of the great bulk of this nation’s woeful mainstream mediocre, continue their best efforts to rip political bark off Albanese over his decision to hold that referendum.

Sadly, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has been equally up to the task as usual, with the likes of Patricia Karvelas and national political lead David Speers banging on relentlessly with the notion as to how stupid and foolish Albanese was to not can the vote once bi-partisan support for the concept was withdrawn.

Not that Dutton and his MSM enablers needed the anniversary milestone to reboot any campaign to damage Albanese over the issue. It’s been going full-steam ahead all through the Voice campaign and every day since. It’s been a relentless shitcanning that Albanese won’t or can’t respond to.

At the risk of boring my reader shitless, here’s a quick recap.

The Voice referendum was an election campaign promise reinforced in Albanese’s election-night speech. A very large number of First Nations people shaped the Uluru statement from the heart where they believed a Voice to Parliament was the best way to enshrine our original Australians in the Constitution. I’ll repeat ad nauseum the Voice was a harmless, sensible, non-binding avenue for our First Nations people to talk to power. It had every chance of achieving its aim: closing the gap between them and all other Australians on so many of life’s markers, including lifespan and health, and education, employment, home ownership and financial outcomes.

Repeat: a totally harmless concept that had overwhelming support until firstly the Nationals and then the Liberals opposed it for no other reason than political gain and to cause maximum political pain for Albanese and the Labor government.

The No case was totally racist and divisive and untruthful, all the things they accused the Yes camp of. Yes indeed; Goebbels would have been proud.

And a year on, Dutton and the MSM continue to bang on about the hundreds of millions of dollars the referendum cost! How Albanese could not have cared less about struggling white Australians while he was off for six months kicking up the red dust and dancing with his Abo mates! How nothing’s been done for those First Nations people in the 12 months since the Voice was silenced! How Albanese has never recovered from a folly he should have pulled the pin on a year and a half ago!

It’s all a great nonsense. Albanese would have been booted from pillar to post if he had pulled his election promise. Gutless! Principles deserted! A solemn election promise broken! A man who stands for nothing!

So a quick summary then? The only political leader who should have lost a lot of bark during the Voice campaign and since is Peter Dutton. Apart from occasionally squawking the mindlessly stupid “If you don’t know, vote no!’ he remained cowardly silent as the No campaign rolled out its racist and divisive campaign based on the notion that the blacks were being offered something whities weren’t! What an absurd, risible, racist, heap of stinking bullshit.

That central theme was sugar-coated with all the lies about the Uluru statement being 20-plus pages of anti-white vitriol, that the big majority of First Nations people didn’t want it anyway, that capital cities would have their names changes and white Australians would have to pay to go to their favourite beach.

Dutton is the only leader who should be under the political and media spotlight over that and the gutless campaign he has waged since. He should be on life-support for the bark he should have lost over this one issue.

Yet he chips away regardless, confident that Albanese is in a hopeless bind where he’d like to shout from the rafters that Australian voters were conned bigtime by the No campaign but can’t for fear of offending all the racists in Australia who swallowed the no arguments hook, line and sinker. Apart from also looking like a poor loser, that leaves him no wriggle room and restricted to “I respect the voters’ decision” motherhood statements.

My best guess is that inner-Albanese would love to shout: “You fucking stupid, ignorant, racists cunts! You got conned big time.” But he can’t. And he’s paying the price daily. And he’ll keep on paying it.

Meanwhile, that Dutton has come through all this not just unscathed but enhanced if you believe poll trends beggars fucking belief. It really does. He’s the one who should be in the political dog-whistling house.

Don Gordon-Brown

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