Indigenous Recognition

Yes campaign ‘obsessed’ with misinformation, failed to engage

Prominent lawyers condemn claims a misinformation bill could have helped secure a voice victory, with one supporter alleging the Yes side pushed untruths.

Ellie Dudley

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ORAN PARK, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JULY 30, 2024. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese makes a speech on a visit to officially open The Shepherd Centre, hearing loss clinic, in the Western Sydney suburb of Oran Park. Picture: NewsWire / Max Mason-Hubers

Leave now or risk being stuck: PM’s warning to ‘thousands’ of Australians in Lebanon

Anthony Albanese issued a stern warning to Australian citizens in Lebanon to leave immediately as tensions escalate, adding that Beirut airport could close at any time, making extraction far more difficult.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - 31 MAY 2024: Queensland Premier Steven Mileshas made an announcement, which will protect the environmental significance of the Great Artesian Basin which was attended by other ministers and interested parties. Brisbane Friday 31st May 2024 Picture: NewsWire / David Clark

Inquiry calls for ban on carbon storage in Basin

A parliamentary committee has recommended a legislated ban on carbon capture and storage activities across the Great Artesian Basin.

Charlie Peel

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***EMBARGOED UNTIL SUNDAY 3rd Sept 12.01am ***, : Aussie music legend John Farnham has lent his iconic anthem You’re the Voice to the Yes camp in support of the Voice to parliament. The track will be featured in the History is Calling campaign that will air on TV and the internet across the country in thel ead up to the October 14 referendum. Picture: Supplied

You’re the Voice … but good luck trying to understand it

The undecided lot wants details on voice to parliament. Can’t they be satisfied with a song, some social media likes and being on ‘the right side of history’?

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20-08-2023 - (L-R) Kerrynne Liddle, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Warren Mundine & Michaelia Cash hold a press conference before attending a No campaign event in Perth.

‘Unknown, permanent’: Dutton’s warning on voice

The Opposition Leader says Anthony Albanese has been “completely obsessed with the voice” as he cautioned the proposed constitutional change as the voice campaign officially begins.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. AUGUST 1, 2023: The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Albanese’s problem is he can’t answer a simple question

The PM can’t say if he supports a treaty as the politics of the voice have forced him into concealing the extent of Labor’s agenda on a treaty and truth-telling. This isn’t tenable.

Joe Kelly

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Anthony Albanese at a Midnight Oil concert. Picture: Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11277855/Anthony-Albaneses-dad-dancing-Midnight-Oil-gig-Jodie-Haydon-Sydneys-Hordern-Pavilion.html

Abbott blasts PM’s voice ‘not about a treaty’ line

Tony Abbott criticises Anthony Albanese as a video resurfaced of him wearing a ‘Voice, Treaty, Truth’ T-shirt at a Midnight Oil concert in October last year.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos , AUGUST 06, 2022: Senator Andrew Bragg arrives at the Liberal Party NSW AGM Picture: NCA NewsWire / Flavio Brancaleone

Delay voice vote or face defeat, Bragg warns

Yes supporter Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg says the referendum should be delayed until next year to build bipartisan support.

Joanna Panagopoulos

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 23: Thomas Mayo and members of the Referendum Working Group hold a press conference at Parliament house in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

NAB in firing line for videos with Yes backer Thomas Mayo

The Coalition has hit out at NAB for hosting videos with the prominent Yes campaigner on its website, in which he declares the advisory body ‘must be respected and its advice acted upon’.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. JUNE 17, 2023: Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton addresses the Liberal Party Federal Council in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Dutton: High Court to rule voice powers

Peter Dutton has sent a six-page brochure to constituents outlining the No case against the Indigenous voice to parliament.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. JUNE 19, 2023: Senator Penny Wong and Senator the Hon Malarndirri McCarthy celebrate as the Constitution Alteration (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice) 2023 is passed in the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Now it’s up to the people to decide this referendum

The eyes of the world are upon us. History is calling. It is a test for all Australians. We must not fail.

Troy Bramston

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Yunupingu with Bob Hawke at Garma in 2014. Picture: Peter Eve *PICTURE APPROVED FOR USE FOR TRIBUTES

Blanche reveals Hawke’s greatest regret as a PM

Blanche D’Alpuget says Bob Hawke deeply regretted failing to deliver the recognition and treaty he promised to late land rights giant Yunupingu 35 years ago at Barunga.

Paige Taylor

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NCA NewsWire Photos - 19 APRIL 2023: CLP Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price in Brisbane. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Glenn Campbell,

Voice activists using ‘coercive control’

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says voice advocates are stoking racial divisions by using ‘emotional blackmail’ ahead of the referendum.

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12/5/23: PWC offices at One International Towers, Barangaroo. John Feder/The Australian.

PwC partners face attempt to expose names

PwC’s tax scandal appears to run all the way through the firm, with the new head of tax and the head of people and culture believed to be among names a Greens senator attempted to table in Senate Estimates.

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PwC granted $255m in government contracts

As PwC is referred to the AFP over the tax leak scandal, the Department of Finance reveals the consulting firm has been awarded $255m this financial year.

Patrick Commins and Rhiannon Down

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MAY 22: Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

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Stan Grant hosting ABC's Q+A program on Thursday, September 15, 2022 that discussed topics including the Queen's death, the future of the monarchy and colonisation.

Why you should vote in the voice referendum

It is clear that the Indigenous voice to parliament model was designed in a rush and not cognisant of the complexity that exists in Aboriginal affairs as it threatens to reintroduce segregation to Australian society via the Constitution and the parliament, argues Victoria Grieves Williams

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Voice debate no place for sporting codes: Price

NT Senator and face of the ‘no’ campaign Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says uninformed sporting codes should ‘stay the hell out of politics’.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MAY 1: Noel Pearson attends the working committee for the Voice to Parliament at Parliament House Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Reconciliation will die under No vote: Pearson

Noel Pearson warns Australia faces an ‘ad infinitum future of protest’ if it doesn’t vote Yes to a voice to parliament, while Abbott predicts a divided nation either way.

Paige Taylor, Joanna Panagopoulos and Tricia Rivera

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JANUARY 26, 2023: A small crowd gathered at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, on the lawns of Old Parliament House, in Canberra to mark Invasion day. Ngunnawal boy, Tahlen Bell, 12 yers old, from Yass with the indigenous flag. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

Advice risks turning voice model into High Court poker

If the Solicitor-General’s opinion on the Indigenous voice to parliament is correct, then Indigenous peoples will have good reason to believe they were duped.

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Japanese ship The Montevideo Maru was used to transport Australian prisoners in 1942. Supplied by Grantlee Kieza for Insight feature.

‘Heal us for generations’: WWII mystery solved

Australian War Memorial chair Kim Beazley, whose uncle was on board the SS Montevideo Maru, has hailed the discovery of the wreckage as a ‘monumental moment in war history’.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos, April 15, 2023: Members of the community arrive to lay a floral tribute where paramedic Steven Tougher was killed on Friday. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

‘He helped so many’: family’s tribute to slain paramedic

The family of Steven Tougher, who was stabbed to death, mourn the newlywed Sydney paramedic. In Perth, juvenile detainees escape from security. In Sydney, the Liberals retain the last undecided state seat.

Joanna Panagopoulos, Paige Taylor and Liam Mendes

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. -NCA NewsWire Photos. APRIL 11, 2023. Julian Leeser The opposition’s spokesman for Indigenous affairs resigns from the Liberal party front bench. Picture: NCA NewsWire/ Ben Symons

Uluru leaders welcome Leeser to ‘Yes’ campaign

Indigenous Australians who called for the voice to parliament at Uluru in 2017 have welcomed former Coalition frontbencher Julian Leeser to the ‘Yes’ campaign.

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Russian hackers leak Tasmanian government data

State Technology Minister Madeleine Ogilvie confirmed 16,000 documents had been compromised and said a helpline had been set up for victims of the breach.

Joanna Panagopoulos

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EMBARGO FOR TWAM 27 NOV 2021. FEE APPLIES. Portrait of Noel Pearson at the 2019 Australian Law Council Dinner at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. Picture by Sean Davey.

Bitter personal attacks out of activist handbook

The voice debate has quickly taken a sinister turn. The danger for the PM and the Yes side is that anyone who has reasonable doubts risks being shouted down by the political elite.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MARCH 8, 2023: Minister for Women, Minister for Finance, Minister for the Public Service, Manager of Government Business in the Senate, Senator Katy Gallagher in Parliament House Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

Inflation fight a key priority: Finance Minister

Katy Gallagher welcomes a pause in rate hikes but warns the federal budget is ‘under enormous stress’.

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Inspiring leader gave his people vision and heart

The name Yunupingu means ‘rock’, which he was for decades.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos MARCH 29, 2023: Member for Berowra, Shadow Attorney General Julian Leeser during Question Time in the House of Representatives in Parliament House Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

Axe voice clause or risk defeat, Leeser warns

The clause which lets the voice ‘make representations to parliament and executive government’ could fuel a no campaign, Opposition Indigenous spokesman Julian Leeser warns.

Rhiannon Down and Tricia Rivera

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