October 2024
- Opinion
- Voice to parliament
White demographics did not drive the Voice vote
It wasn’t old, white voters who made the Voice referendum fail. The Yes campaign aimed at elites, and took the rest of Australia for granted.
- Nyunggai Warren Mundine
Raw wounds and toxic politics: One year on from the Voice
After last year’s push to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution ended in defeat, the groups remain deeply divided.
- Tom McIlroy
September 2024
Australia’s 10 most powerful people in 2024
There are three new faces on the Power list – plus some big swings in the ranking.
- Tom McIlroy
June 2024
Labor launches review into native title ‘inequality and unfairness’
The review will look into the limitations on native title land being used for economic development and how to support consensus among traditional owner groups.
- Ronald Mizen
- Exclusive
- Indigenous justice
‘Land rich, dirt poor’: Price calls for native title reforms
Senator Price said while well-meaning, laws needed to change to encourage private homeownership on native title land as well as more business creation, including Aboriginal owned mines.
- Ronald Mizen
April 2024
- Opinion
- Domestic violence
Albanese confronts domestic violence crisis
Women are angry, and the prime minister is dodging criticism even as he calls an emergency meeting of national cabinet on domestic violence.
- Updated
- Jennifer Hewett
March 2024
Crime and cost of living will decide the battle for Dunkley
Voters in the crucial Dunkley byelection have two things on their mind – crime and the cost of living.
- Gus McCubbing
February 2024
- Opinion
- Liberal Party
Dunkley is the Liberal Party’s chance to advance on Morrison
The timing of the former PM’s departure with the byelection is coincidental but symbolic of potentially a new form of politics on the centre-right that’s democratising democracy.
- John Roskam
December 2023
- Investigation
- Greens
Libs and Labor should put the Greens last over antisemitism
Australia’s elites in business, the media, and our cultural institutions have for too long humoured the Greens. It’s time for that to stop.
- John Roskam
October 2023
Liberals seek to follow No vote with Victorian push
MPs believe the Labor-held seat of McEwen could turn blue after 61 per cent of voters rejected the Voice in the referendum, but locals aren’t convinced.
- Gus McCubbing
‘We are hurting’: The remote town that voted 92pc Yes
Wadeye is a community of nearly 2000, deeply divided by 22 clan groups, but on the question of if there should be an Indigenous Voice to parliament, it was united.
- Ronald Mizen
- Opinion
- Voice to parliament
Referendum result signals a time for action, not mourning
The call for post-referendum “mourning” just continues the emotional blackmail that the Yes campaign relied upon. It will do nothing to help people in remote communities.
- Anthony Dillon
- Opinion
- Political leadership
The hard cost of a failed referendum
The resounding defeat of the Voice referendum leaves many Indigenous leaders disillusioned and Yes voters broken-hearted, but Anthony Albanese still argues it was the right thing to do.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Analysis
- Voice to parliament
Gina Rinehart lights up the secretive No campaign party
Guests describe the No campaign’s party as “jubilant” but the official line paints a more sombre picture of the private event.
- Tess Bennett
- Opinion
- Voice to parliament
Albanese seeks virtue in crushing defeat, Dutton has a good night
The consequences of Saturday’s result will go far beyond shattering the hopes of Indigenous leaders.
- Phillip Coorey
Pearson puts downbeat comments down to ‘emotions’
Noel Pearson has described his candid remarks about the Voice referendum at a private event as “emotions you have along the way”.
- Maxim Shanahan
Mundine, Price threaten to sue Financial Review over ‘Nazi’ cartoon
Two of the No campaign’s leaders, Warren Mundine and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, have sent letters warning they will file defamation lawsuits.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
It’s finally time to decide on the Voice
A long fight for the Uluru Statement from the Heart will live or die when millions of Australians cast their vote. Polls suggest most people will vote against it.
- Tom McIlroy
- Exclusive
- Voice to parliament
Seems nothing can melt No-vote hearts: Pearson
Leading Yes campaigner Noel Pearson urges supporters to maintain hope but says Saturday’s referendum appears lost and Australia was a “hard country now”.
- Maxim Shanahan and Michael Pelly
The nine moments that defined the Voice vote
From the high of Anthony Albanese’s election night victory speech to the lows of toxic politics and disinformation, these moments shaped Australia’s referendum choice.
- Tom McIlroy