New Labor Leader Continues to Support Treaty

Steven Miles, the newly unelected Premier of Queensland seems to think Queenslanders are mugs. He only attained his office after the previous premier resigned. Despite former Premier Palaszczuk essentially ruling out the Path to Treaty due to lack of bipartisan support from the Liberal National Party, Premier Miles (whose from Labor’s Left faction) seems to think he can go against all that and is pushing ahead with the Treaty nonetheless. “Premier pushes ahead with Treaty as 6000 fight against it”. The Premier is quoted as saying, “My government remains committed to continuing on a Path To Treaty, as legislated by Parliament”. He seems to have ignored the will of the people.

Here’s a map of how many states supported last year’s Indigenous Voice referendum. The answer is zero. All states voted No. Only the relatively tiny Australian Capital Territory voted majority Yes. Queenslanders overwhelmingly voted No at almost 70%. Why does the new Labor leader continue to push for this divisive Treaty? Does he want Labor to fail in the upcoming 2024 election in October?

As the headline indicated earlier, there is a current petition to the Parliament being run called the “Repeal of Path to Treaty Act 2023” which has over 6,000 signatures. The petition highlights the “emphatic ‘NO’ from Queensland to the National Voice Referendum. On that basis your petitioners also reject the notion that the Government has the ‘mandate of the people’ to legislate Treaty.”

An alternative petition was also set up “In support of the Path to Treaty” with approximately 2,300 signatures. If we do the maths, there’s a total of 8,348 people who have signed these petitions. 2,300 for Treaty, 6,000 against. This works out to be approximately 27.8% for, 72.2% against, clearly along similar lines as the federal Voice referendum result. The majority of Queenslanders don’t want this, but yet, Premier Steven Miles and the Labor Party in their infinite wisdom continue to support it. There’s only one logical way out of this that I can reason. Queenslanders need to vote against Labor in the upcoming election.

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