The South Australian First Nations Voice to Parliament, legislated by the Malinauskas state Labor government, has flopped ignominiously. This follows on from South Australia delivering the second highest ‘No’ vote at 64 per cent in the 2023 referendum.

Only 2,619 votes (2,583 formal) were cast for a 46-member Voice by Indigenous South Australians, a mere 8.7 per cent turnout of the state’s 30,000 Indigenous people.

In some electorates, candidates were elected with as few as six votes. Three candidates did not receive a single vote, showing they could not be bothered to vote for themselves.

This is an epic fail leaving South Australia with a self-selected, activist Indigenous elite, some with a questionable ‘mandate’. From this, they wield race-based power through a fourth tier of bureaucracy over the state Parliament and the 1.7 million South Australians who were not gifted with the right colour skin.

Despite a massive publicity blitz by the Labor government over two years, and despite the South Australian Electoral Commission heavily promoting the Voice elections, and after all the millions of taxpayer dollars (ten million of them) wasted on the Voice to date, the average Indigenous South Australian has rejected the state Voice. So much for ‘racism’ being behind the ‘No’ vote to the national Voice referendum.

The state’s Voice legislation must surely be repealed in the face of the results of the vote, although that would be to admit error by its champions. Premier Malinauskas has attempted damage control by saying the first state Voice election, despite its underwhelming and unrepresentative result, is ‘a start’. The state Liberal opposition has vowed to repeal the legislation that has given us the unwanted Voice, with One Nation’s Senate representative, Sarah Game, already having tabled a motion for legislative repeal in the wake of the national referendum result.

No one would mourn its demise, except for those who support the gravy train of race-based bureaucratic sinecures.

In a sane world, Voice proponents would now shut up shop, move on, and plan how better to spend taxpayers’ money. But we live in a world where racial virtue must be signalled at all costs, whether democratic or fiscal.