The Paul Keating quote may very well have been taken out of context but still very good advice none the less. If you don't understand it, don't vote for it; if you do understand it, you'd never vote for it!"
The detail has not been forthcoming so why would you vote for it and even if you have some idealistic thoughts about what it might be, why would you risk it if you cannot be sure what might be coming, especially if it is to be enshrined in the constitution and cannot be undone.
Why would you risk it?
Yes the GST is a tax collected by the Feds and is distributed to the States and many would argue that it is distributed inequitably among the states, especially by the states that receive a smaller per capita share than their constituents contribute.
You are correct in saying that the GST is not the VOICE but just like some could argue about the inequities that the GST creates the same could be said about the VOICE in that it provides additional access to Government for a very small minority of the population that is not available to the majority of citizens.
Let's face it, Albo is an idiot, instead of following good advice and legislating to trial a VOICE so that everyone could see how this may possibly work, without out making all these other bloated Agencies and Bodies that currently exist more responsible for the billions of dollars that they currently waste, this was doomed to failure and all he has done is make a nation more divided than it has ever been.
Paul Keating may very well have said: "We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers."
Well he may have but I didn't and neither did anyone that I know, I mean how long are we going to be made to feel guilty about something you or I did not do?
Sure we can look back in time and agree that many things that occurred were wrong and do our best to make sure that these things don't happen again, but at the end of the day we have to move on.
Do we still hold the current generations of Japanese or German people responsible for what happened in the World Wars when none of the current generation were alive when various atrocities happened.
My Polish Grand Parents on my Mother's side were killed by Ukrainian Nationalists in 1943 along with tens of thousands of other Poles in what is now regarded as an act of genocide.
My parents were forced to work in German labour camps in World War II, but do I blame or hold the current generation of German and Ukrainian citizens responsible for what happened?
As far as Noel Pearson is concerned, he is a very angry radical who has only just recently put on a conciliatory front for the media. Will be interesting to see how he and his academic mates react after the referendum when the result is handed down regardless of which way the vote goes.