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A man who describes himself as having an ‘engrained sense of fairness’ has today explained to The Advocate an issue that has been weighing heavily upon him.
Bardon Phillip-Smithson from Betoota Heights says he just can’t see why in this day and age, our government is deliberately trying to divide people.
“I don’t understand why we need to be giving Indigenous people special treatment,” said Phillip-Smithson, seemingly pretending like Indigenous people haven’t been subjected to a couple of centuries of very special adverse treatment in the form of things like genocide.
“Why should they have a special voice?” he continued as if parliament hasn’t predominantly amplified and focused on the voices of blokes like him for a century.
His comments come as the debate around a Voice begins to get scrappier, with the nation’s Opposition Leader Peter Dutton whipping up the culture wars vultures in an effort to create sensationalist headlines and score cheap political points by scaring voters.
“Allowing one group to be treated differently just isn’t a good thing for society I don’t think,” continued Phillip-Smithson.
“Having a government make special rules that only benefit a small group of people doesn’t sit well with me,” said the man who reaps tens of thousands of dollars worth of franking credits every year and negatively gears a swathe of investment properties.
“Government should do things that make society fairer, not the other way around.”
More to come.
