[Editor’s Note: “Dinky-di” means “true” or “authentic” in colloquial Australian English. The author is referring to the October 14, 2023 “Voice to Parliament” referendum which saw voters rejecting the proposal.]
16 October 2023
Dear Editor,
Now that 60% of Australians have rejected PM Anthony Albanese’s “Voice to Parliament,” and with close to now 50% of Australia’s land already having been handed back to ‘First Nations’ peoples – and being bound by legislation that prevents them (Australia’s first owners: the Aborigines) from building houses on it (their own land) – all Aussies and immigrants identifying as ‘indigenous’ need to flip a coin. Do they want to go down in history as the fools who abused genuine indigenous aboriginal ancestry or heroes for bringing history to life by living as indigenous aborigines on that/their almost 50% of Australia?
Maybe the answer to this ongoing ‘voice, victim and deceitful vultures’ culture may well be in the “Voice”; not the one, not now, being called for, but the historical one: ‘The Australian Abo Call’ – the first magazine for Aboriginal Australians with 6 issues published in 1938…and the tagline? “The Voice of the Aborigines.”
So, to make all this really simple…just how many dinky-di ‘Abos’ do we actually now have in Australia today to now really give “Voice” to really dinky-di Aborigines; to voice really dinky-di Aboriginal problems?
Yours,
Howard Hutchins
Victoria, Australia