Last Friday night, the ‘specials’ on the menu at Burwood’s RSL sold out fast.

Not just because they were great value for money in these penny-pinching times, but because many of the quietly-spoken early diners who rose respectfully when the Last Post sounded were there to join with others and to affirm a choice that they’d made earlier this month.

That choice was to say ‘No’ to the Voice – the ‘modest proposal’, as spruiked by the Prime Minister, that was neither modest nor a proposal.