The referendum date has been set for October 14 and the internet has been abuzz with people suddenly becoming experts in complex political law, democracy, property rights and everything pertaining to Australia escaping from imminent disaster. Aukus, the Japanese dumping nuclear pollution and the war in Ukraine are the real disasters and they will widen and most likely Australian (American/British Colony) military bases will get bombed within a few years because of the shrinking Western influence in the Pacific, Africa, Europe and what other way is there than to have at least four flashpoints and a hot war. These aren’t my ideas I am just paraphrasing but it seems logical.

People are saying if you say Yes in the referendum nothing will change but then saying No is exactly the same thing so what is the difference. The difference comes down to trying to do something as opposed to trying to do nothing. If you do something and fail at least you tried, if you do nothing you don’t fail but you didn’t try. I hear this logic in many right wing arguments, for example the idea you are better off not championing electric vehicles or renewable energy because it isn’t as good as fossil fuels. What people are really saying is they don’t want to put the research and development in or try. They make out it is doomed to fail, i.e. don’t even try. 

When fossil fuel engines were first developed they weren’t that great, it basically took decades to make them efficient, yet with electric engines people say oh they are inefficient and blah blah blah, please don’t try and develop the technology etc. The same logic goes into the referendum, please don’t even try, it is like everything is set in stone. It isn’t about racism but self determination, in the 1970s the government closed Indigenous schools (they had been successful schools) and offered welfare payments for moving back onto their land and they didn’t have to work. This reinforced welfare dependency that the elders asked not to happen. Imagine if the elders had a voice in parliament back then. Maybe the push to make Indigenous Australians welfare dependent wouldn’t have happened.

Also maybe it could have but we will never know, now at least we have an opportunity and opportunities don’t come around very often, so my logic is try and potentially fail but please don’t say let’s not try so we don’t fail. Nothing is perfect but you have to work around the issues as they arise or else we are just in the same position indefinitely. Try and maybe fail or don’t fail from lack of trying.