Thread by @tommayor11

So the Greens won’t rule out voting with *Pauline Hanson* to block a referendum to enshrine a First Nations Voice to Parliament? 🚩

75% of Greens support a constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice.

I wonder if they’d reconsider who they will vote for now.

#NPC @AdamBandt

The Greens position, suggesting Voice last, is a position without logic, devoid of strategy.

It’s like their advice is coming from someone who couldn’t be bothered listening to other mob, walking away from the hard strategy work before it was done.

@AdamBandt #halfbaked

Let me provide some Greens with some simple reasons why choosing to oppose a constitutionally enshrined First Nations Voice, because truth-telling and treaty deals must come first, is illogical: 🧵 for @AdamBandt

— the politicians in parliament already know the truth of our past and the present state of Indigenous Affairs. They have royal commission reports - and hundreds of other reports - full of truth-telling.

A lack of truth-telling is not the problem. A lack of political power is.

…hence the urgent need for a constitutionally empowered and protected representative body: The political power that comes with a guaranteed Voice to Parliament.

The truth doesn’t change things - we do.

In other words, truth-telling does not fix ignorance.

…Truth-telling is important. I don’t disagree with the Greens on this.

I do disagree with @AdamBandt Greens saying that truth-telling should come exclusively before building a politically strong First Nations Voice.

It’s a nonsense position.

— on Treaty, as a negotiator of many agreements, and as a person who has followed and learnt about treaties elsewhere in the world, I understand political power/representation always precedes a meaningful agreement, whether it be an enterprise agreement or a treaty…

…Especially for us here in a federation.

At present, only states and the NT are in Treaty discussions. The commonwealth is not at the table.

This is a major problem.

It seriously limits what First Nations people can achieve in a treaty…

…We need a strong, united and constitutionally empowered Voice to reckon with the Commonwealth.

A Voice is also needed to do what always happens once Treaty is done: the continuous legal and political wrangling to protect and receive the agreed outcomes.

…Also, the Greens should consider this: Not all First Nations have the same leverage to negotiate treaties, & the Territorian First Nations have the Territory power to contend with. A United approach at the federal level is vital to ensuring none of our peoples are left behind.

Finally, the Greens @AdamBandt announcement today at the Press Club, confirming that they may side with One Nation against a Voice to Parliament referendum, goes against the wonderful, uniquely collective, powerfully spiritual and politically adept Uluṟu consensus. Shame.

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