Ken Wyatt
Labor attack ad claims Dutton won’t support WA’s $36.5b GST share
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has visited WA as his Labor government released an attack ad claiming Peter Dutton and the Coalition don’t support the state’s GST deal.
- by Alex Condon
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Ken Wyatt is not known for anger. But when he read his family’s government files ...
The former minister for Indigenous Australians thought he knew everything about the heartache of his people. Then he read about the treatment of his forebears.
- by Victoria Laurie
Magazine
Good Weekend
The May 25 Edition
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This deal was meant to be a game-changer for Indigenous people. It hasn’t moved the dial
A blistering Productivity Commission review says governments have not delivered on their landmark 2020 agreement to transform the way public servants and politicians work with Indigenous Australians.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos and Jack Latimore
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Political leadership
Former Labor premiers back Indigenous governor-general as speculation mounts over PM’s pick
Former Labor premiers Bob Carr and Steve Bracks have thrown their support behind an Indigenous governor-general, while former Queensland premier Peter Beattie has suggested that could be divisive, so soon after the Voice referendum.
- by Lisa Visentin
Exclusive
Voice to parliament
Voice question should have been split, Wyatt says
Ken Wyatt says the Voice referendum was too complicated as he called on national cabinet to urgently focus on closing the gap and reviewing Indigenous spending.
- by Paul Sakkal
Updated
Voice to parliament
Constitutional recognition and the Voice fell flat in the Liberal years. Ken Wyatt reveals why
The former Coalition Indigenous Australians minister said if Josh Frydenberg had retained his seat of Kooyong at the last election, the Liberal Party would not have rejected the Voice.
- by Hamish Hastie
Updated
Australia votes
Frydenberg rules out Kooyong run as Wyatt laments his absence
Ken Wyatt claimed his former colleague would have changed the essence of the Voice referendum if he was still in parliament, as the ex-treasurer ruled out a return.
- by Paul Sakkal and Hamish Hastie
Leeser quits opposition frontbench in blow to Dutton’s Voice referendum strategy
Julian Leeser has moved to the backbench to campaign for the Voice in a move that could embolden more pro-Voice backbench Liberals to follow him.
- by Paul Sakkal, Lisa Visentin, James Massola and Angus Thompson
Opinion
Voice to parliament
Dutton deepens divisions with Voice rejection
He was once ‘Peter the pragmatist’, but the opposition leader’s success in holding the Liberal show together has been strictly limited.
- by Michelle Grattan
Opinion
Voice to parliament
The Voice will crack the Liberal Party. Wyatt’s exit proves it
The smallest fracture in the most polished marble can easily turn into a gaping crack. All it takes is pressure.
- by David Crowe
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