The government’s plan to tackle online “misinformation” has been called “totalitarian” and likened to the George Orwell novel 1984, with submissions on the proposal running more than 20 to one against the idea.
Controversial Voice to Parliament advocate Thomas Mayo has called for unions to use their right of entry rules under the Fair Work Act to push the “yes” case at job sites.
A prominent academic has described police and social workers as “racist” and told a NAIDOC Week audience opposition to the Voice was meant to appeal to the Coalition’s “racist base”.
Professor Marcia Langton has been forced to deny slurring No voters in the upcoming Voice referendum in the wake of remarks made at public forum.
In the middle of a cost of living crisis, when distrust of the corporate sector is at record levels, it’s a wonder anyone is voting “yes” at all, writes James Morrow.
An Aboriginal Land Council CEO says a Sydney crown land reserve should be given back to Indigenous people, claiming the area’s wealth was partially built on “slavery” that went on through the 20th century.
Take out immigration and the rosy GDP figures unveiled today and touted by Jim Chalmers start to look much more like a per capita recession for the average Australian.
The head of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council say he’s ‘trying to claim as much land as we can’ as ‘recompense for the loss’ after British settlement.
Immigration Minister Andrew Giles has been accused of spending more time campaigning for the Voice to Parliament than working to manage Australia’s growing number of asylum seekers.
Rather than being a “simple and gracious request”, as the PM has put it many times, the longer document reveals that the Voice is just one part of a larger agenda.
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