Piers Akerman: Albo and Left must accept that no means no

No means no, Albo, so get over it and don’t try to introduce this failed Voice to Parliament through some other means, writes Piers Akerman.

The massive rejection of Anthony Albanese’s referendum on the flawed Voice to the parliament and the executive government was only the first skirmish in what promises to be a long war.

Within hours of Albanese’s ungracious concession remarks last Saturday evening, the unelected self-appointed voices of the Aboriginal industry were slamming those who opposed changing the Constitution and creating a massive new race-based bureaucracy. Three Northern Territory Land Councils were the latest to echo the patronising elites who tried to shame voters into voting Yes, but land councils block individual Aboriginals by preventing them owning their own homes. They hold all land communally under the neo-communistic system set up by the Whitlam government and taking away the pride in home ownership enjoyed by other Australians.

The whole motive for the establishment of a Voice was to cement this control and power in the hands of Aboriginal elites. The people of Australia voted to ensure all people are treated equally under one law and not divided by heritage or race.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese after the Voice to Parliament was defeated in the referendum. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Martin Ollman

A crushing majority of Australians overwhelmingly and resoundingly defeated a Yes campaign organised by an alliance of foreign-backed big corporations, banks, mining companies and media organisations – including the taxpayer-funded ABC and SBS. The Labor Party, Greens and teals joined hands with the socialist left, Qantas, the remnants of the Communist parties, a raft of activist judges, the two largest grocery chains, academics, student and sporting bodies to spread misinformation.

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Warren Mundine. Picture: NCA NewsWire/John Gass

Their attempts to bully the public were thwarted by the people in every jurisdiction except the ACT. The people saw through Albanese’s deliberate attempt to conceal the nature of the exhaustive demands of the entrenched Aboriginal elites, who sought to create jobs for life by sentencing Aboriginal Australians to a regime of unending victimhood.

There was no triumphalism from the Indigenous leaders of the No campaign, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and businessman Warren Mundine, or their hard-pressed volunteers, of whom I was one.

Never having been a member of a political party or worked a polling booth before, I can report from first-hand experience that I found the engagement confronting.

Stationed in the Wentworth seat of teal independent Allegra Spender, I was confronted by abusive Yes voters and, but for one male Yes volunteer, extraordinarily aggressive workers.

Memo to Spender supporters: just wearing a dot-painted T-shirt does not endow you an innate understanding of Aboriginal Australia, no matter the vibe.

Hugely disappointingly, the AEC supervisors at two booths I worked at during pre-polling and last Saturday showed extreme partisanship.

A voter in the federal referendum on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament being handed how to vote flyers and pamphlets by No and Yes Campaigner. Picture: Brendan Radke

I managed to extract a cursory apology from the AEC after protesting claims made by one supervisor at one polling booth, but the AEC failed to have removed prominent replicas of the Uluru statement posted at the entrance to another booth despite protests lodged when voting began.

The kumbaya crowd waving their Yes placards could only promise a kinder Australia, or an opportunity to feel proud, but no substantial argument.

The negative response from Aboriginal organisations to the call from Senator Price for a royal commission into child sex abuse in Aboriginal communities and an audit of spending by authorities established to oversee aspects of Indigenous policy was entirely expected.

Four Greens and four teal MPs – Kylea Tink, Zoe Daniel, Kate Chaney and Monique Ryan – voted with the Labor government to kill the proposition. In the wake of the rejection of Albanese’s ill-conceived and abominably executed referendum, there should be a winding back of the green-left separatist agenda.

Professor Marcia Langton had promised she would no longer offer welcome to country ceremonies.

As this feature of official culture has become so ubiquitous as to be rendered meaningless, let’s hope it is deleted entirely.

No means no, Albo, so get over it and don’t try to introduce this failed nightmare through some other means. There are none so blind as those who will not hear or so deaf they will not listen, to which could be added, nor so much spent to achieve nothing but division and distress.