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A board member of Nyunggai Warren Mundine\u2019s anti-Voice outfit has declared that an Indigenous Voice to parliament would force white people to pay to live in Australia, while describing the stolen generations as a \u201cmistruth\u201d.<\/p>\n
Kerry White, who is helping lead the Recognise a Better Way referendum group, is scheduled to speak about the Voice at Adelaide\u2019s \u201cworld freedom rally\u201d which, as this masthead reported on Tuesday, is linked to a prominent Australian pro-Kremlin and anti-vaccine activist.<\/p>\n
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Kerry White is on the board of Recognise a Better Way. <\/span>Credit: <\/span>Internet <\/cite><\/p>\n White, a former One Nation candidate, this year denied the accepted history on the stolen generations, a systematic policy of child removal and forced assimilation for which the Australian government formally apologised in 2007.<\/p>\n \u201cThe stolen generation is a mistruth,\u201d she said at a referendum event in Adelaide in June headlined by One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and fellow No campaign leader Gary Johns.<\/p>\n \u201cBack in the early 1950s and 1960s, mixed race children were being removed and placed in institutions for their own safety.\u201d<\/p>\n In a December podcast, White argued that the Voice, a proposed advisory body that would make representations to the government, was designed to \u201cget rid of the parliament that\u2019s there now and the Voice will end up taking over\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd you can call me a conspiracy theorist if you like, but I know the way that these people work and that\u2019s what will end up happening.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAboriginal people will be running this country, and all the white people here will be paying to live here.\u201d<\/p>\n Another member of Recognise a Better Way, Gary Johns, and a member of the main No outfit Advance, David Adler, have received heavy scrutiny lately for comments made about Indigenous people.<\/p>\n But White has attracted little attention despite being one of seven members of Mundine\u2019s campaign body, which also includes former deputy prime minister John Anderson. White is a former nurse and diabetes educator who has Indigenous heritage as the granddaughter of a Narungga man.<\/p>\n Warren Mundine is one of the No side\u2019s key leaders.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>Brook Mitchell<\/cite><\/p>\n Mundine did not respond to requests for comment. White could not be contacted.<\/p>\n Asked whether he had kicked anyone off the No campaign because of racist remarks, Mundine told the ABC\u2019s Insiders<\/em> on Sunday: \u201cLook, I\u2019ve been very strong about these issues. People know that and you notice that people, some people, aren\u2019t talking any more.\u201d<\/p>\n Mundine confirmed that he was referring to former Labor MP Johns, who has been noticeably quiet after several controversial remarks including claiming that blood tests should be taken to prove Aboriginality.<\/p>\n The Adelaide protest at which White is speaking \u2013 which will focus on \u201cstopping property acquisition by stealth\u201d, vaccine mandates, 15-minute cities, and World Health Organisation \u201ccontrol\u201d \u2013 is part of a national day of rallies partly organised by pro-Kremlin activist Simeon Boikov.<\/p>\n Opposition Leader Peter Dutton stopped short of discouraging people from attending the event, which is not connected to anti-Voice campaign Fair Australia or Liberals for No, but said it was an abomination that anyone would be inspired by Russian leader Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n Dutton sought to link Anthony Albanese to left-wing protestors who labelled Liberal senator Alex Antic a \u201cracist dog\u201d on Monday, claiming the rancorous debate should be no surprise given the prime minister was knowingly dividing the country.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s been warned for months and months and months that he was embarking on a path right up to October 14 and likely beyond, which is splitting our country in two,\u201d Dutton said.<\/p>\n Coalition leader Peter Dutton.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>Alex Ellinghausen<\/cite><\/p>\n Education Minister Jason Clare seized on the reports of Boikov\u2019s role, claiming the \u201cNo campaign is being organised by a bloke who is holed up in the Russian consulate.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think that tells you everything. On the Yes side you have a genuine Aussie hero in Cathy Freeman, and on the No side you\u2019ve got rallies being organised from inside the Russian consulate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Albanese said on Wednesday he had no regrets about stating his support for the Uluru Statement from the Heart \u2013 an influential Indigenous community document that called for a Voice \u2013 at the start of his election night speech.<\/p>\n \u201cI wasn\u2019t the only political leader to say that there would be a referendum in my term. That happened, that was the Coalition\u2019s position as well, before the last election \u2026 John Howard committed to it within 18 months of his election,\u201d Albanese said on radio station 2SM.<\/p>\n \u201cThe only difference is, one of the things I\u2019ve been determined to do, is to do what we said we would do \u2026 I\u2019ve been determined to restore faith in politics, by doing what we said we would do. And this is an opportunity to move the country forward and there\u2019s nothing to fear from this proposal.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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