Thirty-six years after a Prime Minister promised a Treaty at Barunga Festival, the Territory Government is expected to sign a historic agreement giving Barunga and Wugularr communities a greater say in law, culture and justice issues.
Battlelines have been drawn over an inquiry into a future Voice to parliament, with Labor calling for all future policies to provide an explanation on how it will impact the human rights of Territorians. But others warn this may become a ‘tick the box’ exercise.
A remote community – known as the place where the Dreaming changed shape – has struck a historic 10-year agreement with the NT government.
A town in the heart of Arnhem Land has called the Territory’s leaders to their doorstep to sign a new agreement over their community’s future.
A Yolngu Elder told his parliamentary colleagues his people were “suffocating” under bureaucracy and has called for Aboriginal Territorians to be given a direct Voice to parliament.
The Territory has restarted consultations on a Treaty with First Nations people, a year after a $4.2m report was unceremoniously shelved.
When Indigenous affairs ministers from around Australia met for the first time after the failed referendum one key topic was missing from the discussion.
A public hearing discussing the Territory’s own Voice to Parliament has hit an eleventh-hour stumbling block.
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The 2.6 million Australians who couldn’t be stuffed turning out to vote in the Voice referendum is a disgrace and the penalty for them should be far greater, Peter Goers says.
Australia’s big four banks had a spare $7m to spend on the Voice ‘Yes’ campaign. And they made hundreds of staff redundant as they did it, amid a cost-of-living crisis.
SA’s overwhelming rejection of the Voice referendum has created headaches for the Liberals in inner-city seats, Paul Starick writes, with the Greens set to pounce.
The Voice result proves if you tell people they’re not smart enough to understand an idea, they will reject it. It doesn’t matter how good the idea is, writes David Penberthy.
This is the Premier at his most arrogant – pressing on with the SA Voice when the state emphatically rejected it, writes Caleb Bond.
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