Pauline Hanson to lead campaign against Indigenous ‘voice’

Pauline Hanson has announced she will spearhead the ‘no’ campaign against implementing an Indigenous voice to federal parliament, after claiming it will to lead to apartheid in Australia.

Queensland Senator Pauline Hanson has declared that she will make herself the face of the “no” campaign against an Indigenous “voice” to parliament, saying that if implemented it would lead Australia down the road to “apartheid.”

Ms Hanson, who walked out of the Senate during an Acknowledgment of Country last week, also revealed that her office had registered 46 website domain names in preparation for the campaign against the voice, which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has vowed to bring to a referendum during this parliament.

The Daily Telegraph understands Ms Hanson’s office has bought the rights to a number of web addresses including VoicetoParliament.com.au and Ulurustatement.com.au

“I’m confident Australians will resist giving a minority of people more power than the majority based on race,” she said.

“That sort of thing was known as apartheid and it was rightly consigned to the dustbin of history. How can we possibly be contemplating this in Australia?”

Senator Pauline Hanson as declared she will spearhead the ‘no’ movement against introducing an Indigenous voice to parliament. Picture: Gary Ramage

Ms Hanson said that she would spearhead the campaign against the voice because she believed “the Coalition basically agrees with it.”

“I’m sick and tired of the separatism,” Ms Hanson said.

Indigenous Australian and Senator Jacinta Price in Canberra. Picture: Gary Ramage

The senator said that while she was pleased to see new Country Liberal Senator Jacinta Price speak out eloquently against the voice in favour of practical solutions for Aboriginal people she thought that opposition leader Peter Dutton “basically agreed” with the idea.

“The Coalition are not forward thinkers,” she declared, saying that “once a voice is embedded in the Constitution it cannot be changed.”

Ms Hanson said that “while all of us want Indigenous people to seize the many opportunities which come from living in Australia,” the unforeseen negative consequences of embedding a voice to parliament in the Constitution could be far reaching including calls for reparations.

“If you’re talking about reparations, look at the compensation for the stolen generations,” she said.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Yothu Yindi Foundation Chair Galarrwuy Yunupingu the Garma Festival in northeast Arnhem Land, Northern Territor. Picture: Aaron Bunch

“Those payouts did nothing to bring us together.”

“We have seen the rise of acknowledgment of country speeches, and then the Aboriginal flag, and now I am worried that if the voice goes through there will be a push to say that all land is Aboriginal land, and that everyone has to pay some sort of rent or compensation,” she said.

Ms Hanson added that if the referendum did go forward the Albanese government had to commit to equal funding for both the “yes” and “no” campaigns.

“It’s the only fair approach … we will run a strong campaign against this racist, divisive proposal that will set back reconciliation and our entire country by decades.”