我看到一篇在我们中央海岸的本地报纸CoastCommunityNews上的读者文章，一位叫Padmanabhan的读者以她做为一位移民的角度来看我们将要投票的土著Voice的事情，并阐述她的观点。顺便提一下，她是位38年的资深入了籍的移民。她的观点兴许能代表我们诸多虽是移来的，但是已把这里当自己的家园的朋友们的想法。我用Google翻译翻译成中文，原谅我没时间修饰文辞。最好去读原文，她文笔非常好。
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An interesting article sent to my local newspaper from a local reader “Migrant Viewpoint on the Voice”. It might represent how some of migrants like me look at the impending Voice referendum. It is well written in terms of its literacy. The original article link
2023 年 8 月 20 日 我想表达自己作为一名 38 年前获得澳大利亚公民身份的少数族裔移民的感受，我很爱国，并为自己是一名真正的蓝色澳大利亚人感到自豪。 我作为两个孩子的单亲母亲来到澳大利亚，除了教育之外没有任何经济或家庭支持。 我努力工作，取得了最高水平的进一步资格，将我的孩子教育到了最高水平，缴纳了税款，并恪守了我的公民誓言。 我们已经成为一个真正的多元文化社会，我亲眼目睹了这个国家如何随着移民成为这个伟大国家的支柱而繁荣发展。 我们移民面临着一些澳大利亚精英白人的种族主义和蔑视，但我们在各行各业都取得了成功，并为我们的国家感到自豪。 现在，同样的澳大利亚白人精英告诉我们，如果我们对声音公投投反对票，我们就是种族主义者。 我们相信所有澳大利亚人都是平等的，每个人都享有公平的机会。 我们相信我们的辛勤工作、忠诚和价值观能够取得成功。 为什么对于某些澳大利亚人群体来说会有什么不同呢？ 如果白人精英有一些想象中的罪孽需要被清除，为什么他们不去定居点和澳大利亚乡村地区做一些真正的改变，而不是在媒体上宣扬他们的智慧呢？ 为什么他们认为他们可以向移民规定我们应该思考什么以及如何思考？ 如果这个国家在多元文化移民之前就进行了这样的宪法变革，我们将没有任何土地的权利，我们的国内生产总值将被强行分配给某些群体，即使他们不为此做出贡献，我们也不会愿意来来到这个所谓的幸运国家。 这些对他人表现出如此蔑视的澳大利亚白人在强迫我们像盲目的羊一样跟随他们之前最好三思而后行。 媒体必须保持中立和客观，不要跟随总理的潮流。 他只想让自己的名字载入史册，并不真正关心生活成本或我们大多数人现在面临的其他问题。 这已经成为一种干扰，导致人们无法关注所有澳大利亚人面临的重大问题。 ==================================================== 原文如下 AUGUST 20, 2023 I would like express my feelings as a migrant of a minority group who took Australian citizenship 38 years ago and is patriotic and proud be a true blue Aussie. I came to Australia as single mother of two children with no financial or family support except my education. I worked hard, achieved further qualifications to the highest level, educated my children to the highest level, paid my taxes and remained true to my citizenship oath. We have become a true multicultural society and I have seen how the nation has prospered with migrants forming the backbone of this great nation. We migrants faced racism and contempt from some elite white Australians, yet we have succeeded in all walks of life and are proud of our country. Now, we are being told by the same elite white Australians that we are racist if we vote No to the Voice referendum. We believe in equality for all Australians and a fair go for everyone. We trusted in our hard work, loyalty and values to become successful. Why should it be any different for a certain group of Australians? If the white elites have some imagined guilt to be purged, why don’t they go to the settlements and regional Australia to do some real change instead of spouting their wisdom in the media? Why do they think they can dictate to immigrants what and how we should think? If this country had such constitutional change before the multicultural migration, where we would not have rights to any land and our GDP would be forcefully portioned out to certain groups even if they didn’t contribute to it, none of us would have wished to come to this so-called lucky country. These white Australians who show such contempt to others better think twice before forcing us to follow them like mindless sheep. The media have to stay neutral and objective and not jump on the Prime Minister’s band wagon. He only wants his name made in history and does not truly care about cost of living or other concerns the majority of us face now. This has become just a distraction, (leading) away from focussing on major issues facing all Australians. Nalini Padmanabhan, Terrigal