Australian Referendum/ Indigenous Recognition: John Arthur Fitzpatrick 57 m · Shared with Your friends The Division Bell It was sad to hear Noel Pearson describe a life long colleague of his as someone scared and pissing his pants simply because he disagreed with Noel. Noel's capacity to be a bit of a sanctimonius prick is obvious. One got the opinion that this was all a bit of a political power-play with Noel deluding himself into thinking that the referendum had already taken place and that he, somehow, beyond anyone else, had won it. Noel didn't say he thought Stan Grant was pissing his pants when just a bit of the race blowtorch was applied to his belly by riff-raff regarding his somewhat dopey, somewhat weak as piss statements about the recent bizarro Sassenach Coronation. Where was the pipe-bomb? Where was the Continuity in the Struggle? Now, Stan has always been a bit dodgy when it comes to reporting the news. Anything about China in his reporting is usually horribly skewed towards the evil of the Communist Party of China, rather than about trying to actually report any factual news. He has been toe-ing the Morrison line about hate-for-China for years now, simply because he knew Australians are racist and would like what he said. The chooks have come home to roost, Stan. As for the Question we are to answer in the referendum, yes or no, well, still, to me, there are 2 questions in it, and these odd recent convolutions are no way to garner a positive clear and simple outcome. If you believe that the Australian population has the searing intelligence to take apart the Question and realise that no one will be disadvantaged, and it'll all be a great thing, well, then, you're even more moronic than they are. There will always be riff-raff here in Australia, about 10% as the base, but that number easily jumps to 25%++ when anything difficult is up for discussion...and when the economy is failing...about another 20%. And with one major political party out of 2 against the Yes vote... how many percent is that? A fair few, I reckon. Then, of course, are the Hopelessly Woke folk who will cancel the whole thing and not vote at all. That's called being actively 'subversive'. You just have to be a lot smarter than Noel or Stan to move forward with what was a basically good idea, fair recognition ...but now, ohhh, I can't see it passing muster now. Too much flaming diesel on the BBQ now. At first I thought the referendum was a bad idea, then changed my mind to it being a good idea, and, now, well, its a good idea but cant win due to how it is being handled by indigenous groups and equally by the riff-raff. It is more a Division Bell than a Vote. There could well be an unpleasant 'righteous backlash' by the riff raff either way. People are getting very sick of the referendum already. It has lost simplicity. Whatever trust Australians had seems to be failing now.