Warren Mundine: Penny Wong just revealed the truth about Labor

By WARREN MUNDINE FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

Published: 05:57 BST, 30 April 2025 | Updated: 07:08 BST, 30 April 2025

Nyunggai Warren Mundine (AO) is a former President of the Australian Labor Party, a member of the Liberal Party, and a former co-head of the “No” campaign against the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum. 

Here we go again. Labor’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Penny Wong, has let her guard down and revealed the truth – the Albanese Government will not be giving up on the culture wars, and will be pushing for another Voice referendum.

Labor is refusing to listen to the clear message of the Australian people. In the 2023 Referendum, Australians resoundingly rejected the Voice, in every state and territory bar the Canberra bubble.

The Voice was rejected in the cities and in the regions alike, including the multicultural suburbs of western Sydney and Melbourne – Labor’s so-called heartland.

The Voice was also rejected by Aboriginal people who were overwhelmingly indifferent to it. Most people in Aboriginal communities in remote and regional Australia cared so little about the Voice they didn’t even vote at all, with typical turnout well below 40%.

So Labor is not listening to the Australian people or even to its own heartland. And Labor has not listened to the silence of Aboriginal people.

In rejecting the Voice, Australians rejected racial division. And they rejected embedding racial difference in our constitution and in our system of government.

Australians voted for all Australians being treated equally and fairly. The Albanese Labor government spent nearly $500 million on a Referendum to be told this but still won’t accept the message.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong (pictured) shocked voters three days out from the federal election by declaring the Indigenous Voice to Parliament is an inevitability

Labor’s plans to hold another Voice referendum shows it doesn’t respect the Australian people says former co-head of the ‘No’ campaign Warren Mundine (pictured)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is pictured alongside ‘Yes’ campaigners prior to the unsuccessful referendum

Labor‘s plans to hold another Voice referendum and to not take ‘No’ for an answer shows it doesn’t respect the Australian people and doesn’t mind wasting taxpayers’ money in the process.

The Voice was an ideological project of elites – academics, lawyers, corporates and the Aboriginal peak bodies who already advise on and design Aboriginal policy.

It offered no solutions and would have been a vast, pointless bureaucracy; a giant mission manager entrenched in the constitution.

Poverty and disadvantage for Aboriginal people is predominantly concentrated amongst those living in remote Australia and amongst families trapped in intergenerational welfare dependence.

Labor has no solutions for the problems experienced by these people or their communities.

Apart from the Voice, the Albanese Government’s most significant Indigenous policy has been to remove alcohol bans and cashless welfare. This policy was a disaster and only made the problems worse.

The solution to Aboriginal poverty and disadvantage is not rocket science. Get every Aboriginal child to school every day, get every Aboriginal adult into a real job and ensure the communities in which Aboriginal people live are safe, with laws upheld and zero tolerance for criminal and anti-social behaviour.

The only reason these outcomes are considered to be difficult to achieve is lack of political courage and politicians pandering to progressive ideologies like those that underpin the Voice.

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Warren Mundine: Penny Wong just revealed the truth about Labor

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