Sky News host fact checks Linda Burney's ‘bizarre’ cordial statement to sell the Voice 

Just vote NO.

The giant natural pearl necklace and earrings show that Linda is so far removed from the vast majority of Australian aboriginal people that it's obvious she does not speak for them.

She is helping the no campaign no end. Keep her going!

Every single one of these bureaucrats needs to be sacked and jailed. Total incompetence.

Ministers should be forced to answer the questions put to them instead of totally ignoring the question.

It's a NO from me. As Graham Richardson said (and I am not a Labor party voter) we don't need the Voice, use your vote at election time!

All Australians should be embarrassed with the talent we have representing the country .

Voting NO to the voice

This is exactly why to vote no. Imagine if these clowns got the voice. My god. Thorpe Burney. Australia wake up

Well said. We are fed so much BS from Burnie and others.

"We have reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are being held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today."

I'm with Bolty on this one. Well said Andrew.

A leading “Yes” campaigner (Mayo) for the Voice to Parliament hopes it will be a step towards getting non-Indigenous Aussies to “pay the rent” for living on Australian land.

The Voice is a despicable process to split the Australian population.

"If politicians don't follow our advice they will be punished" Thomas Mayo. VOTE NO

Well said Andrew. I'll give some good solutions so indigenous parents don't have to force their children to drink cordial in their water. Make all the government departments, State and Federal, publicly reveal how much money has been granted to such bodies as Land Councils and public servants running around in brand new Land Cruisers and Toyota Prado's supposedly supporting their indigenous community during the last 30 years. Then show us where it has all been spent. I don't see any special indigenous hospitals or schools, and why in 2023 do we still have some members of the indigenous community in rural Australia still living in humpies and derelict cars? Where have all the billions of $$$$$ gone? I'll tell you - Not to those who really need it.

That not the first load of tripe she has spoken this week.

To make a cordial drink you need water! Just leave out the cordial Linda and guess what you have water!!!! I think that women is putting something other than cordial in her water!!!

Why doesn't she ask where all the money has disappeared to that was directed towards making Aboriginal lives better. You could buy 10 truckloads of water just from the petty change jar of the billions spent.

Describing Linda as bizarre doesn't go far enough.

The longer this goes, the more it undermines not only the “policy” around the Voice (whatever it may be), but it undermines confidence on every other policy. What the hell are these people doing ????

Albo & Burney are both proving to be incompetent. This is just wasting millions of dollars that could have spent on a worthwhile project.

I have concerns about her mental faculties.

She's lying anyway if she was telling the truth she wouldn't have to read it.

She's drunk in the house again 🤣

This Burney woman is Australia's Nancy Pelosi... doesn't have a clue.

They get billions of taxpayer dollars every year and they can't afford bottled water?

Where is parental responsibility? Where is individual responsibility for the community problems across the board, not just remote/rural Aboriginal communities. All communities. We are Australians first.

Burney seems to think she's so far above all of us who have questions, and that it is beneath her to engage in trying to answer our legitimate questions.....as if the Australian people are unimportant in the scheme of things. How dare she treat the Australian people with such contempt......big disappointment coming your way Burney, I have a feeling you won't be in that job for much longer.

They can’t sell the voice with superficial obfuscatory BS. It’s all clearly BS 🤷🏽‍♀️

She's the Kamala Harris of Australia.

Burney always sounds drunk.

Cordial is added to water, you don't just have cordial.😳 But I have seen a woman give her child red wine in a bottle to help her sleep and to be quiet. No voice will help just action. One law for all Australians. Barney doesn't know what she is talking about. For the children's sake Vote "No"

She’s up there with Biden, what a waste of space.

Good work Andrew.👏 Burney is an embarrassment.🇦🇺

This seems to be the Socialist Labour Party’s theme regarding questions about the Voice! Elbow refuses to answer anything saying the questions don’t deserve a Prime-ministerial response, and Blah blah Burnie doesn’t know anything about what she is sprouting?

Vote no Australia

How crazy is this woman water is cheaper than cordial and why would one need the voice to address this probem ,what a nutta

The tax dollars already spent need be accounted for.

People who sell cow manure have a better results than Albo and dregs with their voice

Listening to Burney is enough reason to vote NO, she looks to be doing it so tough, when did she walk the streets of Alice Springs or FNQ at night

Frankly I don't know a great deal about this Burney character. However when ever I see her & listen to her, she seems completely out of her depth and clueless. This is what's happening all over the world when the wrong people are placed into a position not based on 'best at doing the job' but instead 'ticks a box'.

The whole premise of the voice that only aboriginals can solve aboriginal problems is deeply flawed.

VOTING NO!!! All BS!!!

Wow we need "The Voice" to get the kids off the cordial 😂😂

First things first. Andrew welcome back. Second things second. The 'Voice' is doomed.

Which section of the current constitution requires Aboriginal children to be fed cordial?

The remote aboriginal communities I was in 15 years ago, often the conditions were so bad, if it was anyone else they would have their kids taken off them immediately.

Why doesn't she run into the bush and drink cordial, but you will need some water with that!

Spot on 💯 Andrew, Hopefully she will go off script permanently. Burni is past corherant, unfortunately labour has the numbers in Parliament to pass the Albo Abo Bill

Burney has been on the cordials...shots and schooners of it.

Burney’s is so out of her depth she is drowning.

Andrew, cordial is made with water, you have to have water to make cordial

Some of the scripts were written by the Attorney General. The question about Mayo's desire to dismantle our democracy is valid. Senator Thorpe said as much the other day in Parliament. I also note that the PM in recent speeches has refrained from mentioning the voice, instead he talks about recognition and reconciliation. The PM has the power to introduce legislation to have the voice placed into Parliament. If it is that urgent and will cure all the ills facing Indigenous people, why hasn't he done it?

Never knew people like Linda were actually born😮

These politicians tell us how hard the indigenous have suffered and less life expectancy etc etc. Don't tell us how much is being spent on them ,while the rest of Australians suffer!

what a joke, attempting to equivocate the voice as being necessary to stop kids being given cordy in instead of water

in communities where the water is below world standards local councils supply water free. Yuelamu, Laramba and Nyirripi being three examples I know of who have been supplied free drinking water free of charge to community members.

Don't you have to ADD water to cordial to make it drinkable?

If she is the best we have OMG pathetic.

Let’s do Weekend at Burney’s and try to find out what drugs she’s on!!! So we can avoid them

She doesn't answer any questions - ever.

So good to have you back on air Andrew.

What has linda burney done with all the money....

All while wearing Gucci of course. Love how these clueless puppets try to relate to us “commoners”.

It’s like $5 for a 1L bottle of cordial…what is she talking about? Lol

Vote No

With all the things Burney says the voice can't or won't do, what the hell is point of having it? To Bolt's point of already knowing the problems and doing bugger all to fix them, how does the voice change that?

Last time I checked... you need WATER to add to the CORDIAL lol

This woman get a sentence out without struggling Gosh and we are to believe her?

sick em rex , keep it up

Linda telling the truth about the voice is like believing James Mason was an angelic choirboy who would never have harmed a soul

If one was to ask Linda Burney what day it is she would need the script and still stuff it up.

Burney seems very unwell, struggling to breathe and speak her dribble

Andrew, I'd use stronger words than just tripe, rubbish, BS, bull, garbage to describe Burney et al's arguments for a Voice. So we need a multi-million $ Voice to advise the minister some children were being fed sweetened cordial when she found out directly by talking with a citizen. What measures did she immediately take to determine how widespread this practice was & what measures to implement to stop this practice! I'll have a private guess what the answer is.

Ummm, what do you mix cordial with? Is she saying those kids were drinking cordial concentrate? Pull the other one!

When you remove the foundation, the whole building collapses.

I want my own "Affairs Minister" please????

@Sky I really like the reporter. Please keep him .

She sounds as if she's drunk

Burney sounds like a dear old grandmother who speaks from the heart, but has nothing to say. Sound familiar?

She always sounds like she's been enjoying some Parliament House wine...

Perfectly said Andrew. Labor won't answer any questions because they either don't know, or are hiding the truth. Vote NO to dividing Australians by race.

Well, at least she didn’t claim they’re drinking bong water 😂

linda the liar.

Well said,Andrew. We certainly do need a Voice but it's a Voice of Sanity! Thanks for exposing these phonies & the useful idiots that support their dangerous ideas.

Ahhh, the “cordial” paradox!!😂 The water isn’t good enough, but we don’t want a fix for the water… we want more money to flavour the water, regardless of the health (socioeconomic implications) that will continue! Cordial can only make crappy water taste better, and if your willing to drink it mixed with cordial… it wasn’t so bad in the first place!!!

She (Linda) is definitely a good story teller for her mob 😁

The ' Voice ' is dead on arrival !

Cordial is mixed with .... WATER.

$8 for 2 litres of cordial in remote communitys. $12 for 24x 600ml bottles. Fact

We have to pass the bill in order to know what is in the bill-Nancy Pelosi rules.

Cordial has to be mixed with water anyway. They wouldn't be drinking it straight.

Considering that the PM and his ministers have no denounced Thomas Mayos comments, we can only assume that they support them. Linda Burney in fact, reckons that Mayo is a decent fellow. I have a theory - If you are wondering about the fine print of the Voice and what will happen after the referendum - I have been reading the UN General Assembly on the rights of Indigenous people. There are numerous chapters, but it essentially says that Indigenous people have the right for self determination. This is interesting, because when Gough Whitlam started campaigning for aboriginal rights, that was his main goal and various Labour governments have continued in this vein. Now, Gough is Albanese’s hero and he wants to emulate Gough and live up to Gough’s expectations or even go one better and deliver Gough’s goal and deliver the UN General Assembly goals. This also fits with the goals of the 1982 National Aboriginal Conference, where a draft Makaratta detailed requirements for self determination or Aboriginal Sovereignty. There are some pretty scary demands in this Draft (eg tax relief for 195 years, payment of 5% of GDP for 195 years etc- research it for yourself). Aboriginal Sovereignty was also the main driver at the Canberra Tent Embassy. Articles from this Makaratta appear also to be included in the Uluṟu Statement from the Heart. Marcia Langton and Patrick Dodson would be most aware of the 1982 Makaratta. And the kicker - In 2022 an expression of interest was released by Penny Wong for an Aboriginal Ambassador to “lead indigenous perspectives experiences and interests into foreign policy and First Nations trade and investment” - I expect because the Voice has further un-mentioned goals. So, when Albanese says “trust us”, it will all be worked out after the referendum. Just like his pre-election promises - that has worked out too well. So why doesn’t the government want to give out further details on the Voice? In absence of any detail from the government, it can only be concluded that Aboriginal self determination or Aboriginal Sovereignty is the clear driver behind the Voice and these details are what is being kept from the Australian people. So a No vote would be appropriate.

How much does a carton of VB cost, must be cheaper than water as well.

Do we actually have light weights like that in parliament? My god!

You need water to mix with the cordial?

It's like a Weekend at Bernie's.

what we need is an AUDIT from the 36MILLION we give the abos every year

Don't you need water to mix with cordial? 🤔