In a Democracy every voice must be given equal weight otherwise it ceases to be. No culture should be given precedence over another, each individual must have equal opportunity to affect the direction their society takes

No culture should be given precedence over another, each individual must have equal opportunity to affect the direction their society takes, by granting or demanding one culture privilege over the rest ignores the reality each of us came into the space that is Australia which determined our origins, all of us including aborigines as originating genetically from elsewhere, to claim just because your ancestors came to Australia 40,000 years ago rather than last week is ridiculous - for there were even different waves of what now constitutes Australian aborigines - are we to claim it is only the earliest wave which must be given privilege. One vote one value. I was born on Australian soil as any aboriginal as of the same date and yet it is demanded I have less of a say.

What makes an aboriginal more worthy of determining the direction of our nation, simply it is claimed date of arrival- We were here first, well Australia is not disconnected from the rest of the world from whence we are all derived at the same time - Aborigines may have been first here - so what - does that change the right of every other citizen to be second in line or third or fourth in terms of deciding the future of their nation -  it is a ridiculous self serving argument.

The Government have not underestimated the support for an iniquitous regime. I have Irish, Danish, Scottish ancestors turfed out of their lands for whatever reasons generally violently which in essence amounted to terror-genocide so I can claim to have precedence over anyone else in that space as to their future?

Of course not every one is going to be enthusiastic about giving a specific group a greater say in their destiny and their children's than they have themselves.

You may not have noticed because of the deviance paradigms being enforced in Western space surveys can no longer be trusted to reflect reality.

I believe injustice continues to be the lot of aborigines but giving up a sceric of what little say I may have now, or what I think I may have, for the sake of someone else's world view I for one will not vote for.