Is the Voice a Labor Party initiative?

This is a response to a Reddit Post by a NO advocate

Labor & Albanese [the Australian PM] may well be invested in seeing this VOICE insertion into the Australian constitution through and they/he may hope that a YES win might be a significant part of his legacy. A little personal motivation and ambition is not a bad thing – indeed, it’s a very human thing. Who cares if personal ambition is part of the motivation? Not me.

And of course the move to enshrine a VOICE has a political nature. That’s the nature of the call for a referendum. And I think that Labor genuinely hoped for a bipartisan support – they also knew who it was they dealt with in opposition and could not count on bipartisan support, even though the Voice originally had a significant public support.

I believe that many on the YES side also genuinely believe that the VOICE will help end the 245 year long stasis that is the rusted on legacy of European claiming of this country. That stasis is the enormous and systemic gap between First Nations peoples and the rest of the country.

And I suspect that NO advocates cannot – whatever their motivations – achieve anything other than NOthing. A NO simply strengthens the rust bond. No-one collects anything and we all slide back to some place behind GO.