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The relevance of my various other examples is simply that's the reason I and so many are wary of the Voice in the first place. If government can't resist meddling in private matters or it can't simply tell the truth about straightforward and easily measured policy then why on earth would anyone accept the "just trust me" argument being presented regarding something as permanent and hard to measure as the Voice?

Everyone's heard the "boy who cried wolf" story, right? The situation we have at present is that scenario on steroids - a very substantial portion of the population simply doesn't trust government at this point on any matter. Not because of the Voice itself but because of all the other things successive governments of both persuasions have failed at or outright lied about. Slowly but surely the credibility of the federal government, regardless of which party is in power, has been eroded.

The most important pre-requisite to any major reform in Australia, on any matter, is to first rebuild the public's confidence in government itself. Not confidence in Labor or Liberal, but confidence in the entire concept of the federal government being competent, professional and not being out to get at individuals. Right now that's seriously lacking.