The Indigenous Voice To Parliament

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When I look at all of the social issues in our society, the increasing homelessness, the ever present and damaging divorce rates, the rate of burnout in the workforce, the steeply rising cost of living, the astronomical house prices that put reasonable sized homes out of the hands of many Australians, the supply shortages which are causing all sorts of niggling issues in our economy, the building war in Eastern Europe, and more, I can't help but think that the most important thing we need to do right now is create an ethnically selected addition to parliament for a minority, a voice for selected people group. Of course, this needs to be done. 

This is clearly, and obviously should be the government's first and highest priority. After all, all those other issues require actually DOING something significant to change society for the better for all Australians. Whereas the "Indigenous Voice to Parliament" gives the government virtue-signalling points with their base, without actually having to do something significant to improve the lives of Australians. 

In the political realm it is a no brainer decision. After all, being seen to "do something" is often far more important to big organizations and bodies, than actually doing something. It is cathartic for them. They do the token thing, and then they can rest on that without ever actually having to bring in a real and meaningful change. They can even say that those who opposed the token thing they are offering are bad people, I've seen it implied in other contexts. It's a political win, win for a government in today's climate.

Nevermind that it is a terrible idea, and likely won't achieve anything significant, being seen to do something is all a lot of people care about.