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Nyunggai Warren Mundine

Change the date but celebrate the day

Elites were deaf on the Voice, and now they are deaf on Australia Day, too. This country deserves to be honoured, not hated.

Last year Australians gave a very clear message, resoundingly rejecting the Albanese Voice and ignoring the hectoring and lecturing of the elites.

The Commonwealth and all state governments supported the Voice. As did most of the big end of town – companies; law firms; accounting firms; opinion commentators; media figures – especially at the public broadcasters; academics; and peak bodies in sport, community, religion, business and professional services. Let’s call them the woke elites.

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Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO DUniv (Hon. Causa) is Director, Indigenous Forum, Centre for Independent Studies.

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