Indigenous Voice is make or break for Albanese
Offering a simple referendum question and three proposed additions to the Constitution, Indigenous recognition is a make or break moment for Anthony Albanese’s first term.
Linda Burney might seem an unlikely revolutionary. Not much taller than the microphone at the dispatch box in federal parliament, the 65-year-old MP for the NSW seat of Barton speaks in a deliberate manner, punctuating her sentences in the air with a pencil.
The first Indigenous woman to serve in the House of Representatives, Burney used the new Labor government’s first sitting fortnight to join Anthony Albanese on the front line of the fight for a Voice to parliament.
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