By Viv Forbes ——Bio and Archives--October 8, 2023
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The Hawke Labor government established ATSIC in 1990 "so that aboriginals could be involved in the processes of government affecting their lives". It failed and was abolished by John Howard with support from Labor in 2005.
Canberra also created other voices such as the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee and the National Indigenous Council. And Australia has eleven members of parliament claiming aboriginal heritage. Australian governments spend over $30 billion on aboriginal matters including the bloated National Indigenous Australians Agency with 39 offices and 1200 employees.
We are now being asked to support yet another Aboriginal Voice. And it will take another costly referendum to abolish it when it too fails. Let us save all this expense and acrimony and Vote "No" to legalised racial division.
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Viv Forbes, Chairman, The Carbon Sense Coalition, has spent his life working in exploration, mining, farming, infrastructure, financial analysis and political commentary. He has worked for government departments, private companies and now works as a private contractor and farmer.
Viv has also been a guest writer for the Asian Wall Street Journal, Business Queensland and mining newspapers. He was awarded the “Australian Adam Smith Award for Services to the Free Society” in 1988, and has written widely on political, technical and economic subjects.