Lidia Thorpe (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Minister, for your lovely whitesplaining of how good this assimilation policy will be and how good the upcoming assimilation referendum for a powerless Voice will be. We're used to that. We've been putting up with that for over 200 years. I won't be supporting this particular amendment. I think it's just a secure way for the government to pay their 'yes' people to provide the 'yes sir; no sir' tokenistic gesture that, unfortunately, many, many advisory bodies—which government themselves hand-pick—do to us all the time. On behalf of the black sovereign movement, we won't be allowing 'yes' people to get paid any more than they already are to sell us out.