254: Nick Cater: Why Australia rejected the Voice to Parliament

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Nick Cater – Australian author, broadcaster, columnist and senior fellow at the Menzies Research Centre – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Nick and Brendan discuss the Aussie establishment’s meltdown over the ‘Indigenous Voice to Parliament’ referendum, the racism of identity politics, and why renewables can’t power the world.

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0:30.0	Really, this was a referendum on identity politics.
0:40.0	You know, the idea that Indigenous, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
0:45.0	by nature is essentially of their rates, but also because of their assumed, you know, privileged position.
0:52.0	They expected to have this extra former representation to Parliament, to a voice and non-elected voice.
0:57.0	I never, in the world, believed it would be defeated by what.
1:00.0	You know, getting on for two-thirds of the country said, we don't want this.
1:04.0	You know, it was quite decisive.
1:06.0	And the reason was, I think, people just felt, well, we don't want two classes of Australian.
1:10.0	We're all citizens. We're bound together as equal citizens.
1:17.0	Hello, welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill show with me, Brendan O'Neill,
1:21.0	and my special guest this week, Nick Cater. Nick, welcome to the show.
1:25.0	Delighted as ever to be with you, Brendan.
1:28.0	It's so good to have you on. There are two things in particular I want to talk to you about today.
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