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Indigenous Voice To Parliament
History made with first Voice address
An Indigenous leader with Australia’s first state-based Voice to Parliament has decried the continued struggles of First Nations people.
SA Libs threaten repeal ahead of historic Indigenous Voice address
SA’s Voice is set to make its inaugural presentation to state parliament — the first of its kind in Australia. But the legislation, giving Indigenous leaders the right to address cabinet and departmental chiefs, has already sparked backlash.
Albanese goes full steam ahead on track for fiasco
Anthony Albanese recycles disastrous voice tactics, this time risking an even greater failure over renewable energy.
Conservatives parties – Trump, and perhaps Dutton – are now the champions of the working class
Talk to anyone outside the media bubble and they’ll tell you they saw Donald Trump’s comeback a mile off. These clear-eyed Australians clearly predicted the defeat of the Indigenous voice referendum, too.
Voice architect breaks ranks over referendum timing
Uluru Dialogue co-chair Megan Davis says the Albanese government did not give Australians enough time to be educated about the voice.
PM must accept blame for failure of the voice referendum
The inaction of the Albanese government since the defeat of the voice referendum makes you wonder if the government really wanted the Indigenous voice at all.
Leadership still missing in action
Instead of taking from the referendum the lessons of what went wrong and ensuring the same mistakes are not repeated, Labor is stuck on minority views of inner-city and Green electorates.
‘Time is over’ for ‘in denial’ voice advocates: Price
On the one-year anniversary of the failed referendum, Opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Price has called for Yes proponents who ‘still want to deny the outcome’ to move forward.
Post the voice, Albanese has failed to follow through on his vow
The PM chose to stake his political career on the indigenous voice, and its defeat didn’t have to be his downfall. But the past 12 months have left no room for doubt: he does not have the character required to lead this country.
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.
Time to get rid of Indigenous reconciliation police
The separatist spirit of the voice to parliament lives on in thousands of the nation’s corporate action plans.
Time to move on from the voice
It is not time, it never will be, to lament that the government did not support the voice by censoring its critics.
The legacy of the Indigenous voice: hope, division and paralysis
The voice represents a tragic saga for Aboriginal Australians. The wounds are still fresh – and there’s little sign of leadership to identify a way forward.
‘Why should I apologise?’: Senator Payman on ‘voice’ criticism
The former Labor senator says ‘people will have objections’ but her new party’s name Australia’s Voice is not associated with the defeated referendum for the Indigenous voice to parliament.
The deadly backlash of ‘sit-down money’
Let’s face it: 1973 and 1974, not 1788, better explains this long-scale traumatic hurt and human damage to Aboriginal Australia.
Yes leaders felt ‘invisible’ as referendum became toxic
Australians backing the Indigenous voice to parliament felt ‘swept under the rug’ as Anthony Albanese’s referendum became an unmitigated disaster.
Clark a thief and a ‘wrecker’ in the modern era of Indigenous affairs
How Geoff Clark’s crimes and his ego poisoned Indigenous affairs all the way up to the Voice.
I believed the voice would work. That doesn’t make me a fool
Public debate in Australia is not failing because of the odd insult. It is because we are more prepared to revile each other as liars than respect ourselves as genuine, if misguided.
How identity politics killed the voice
Shireen Morris’s account fails to recognise where the troubled referendum went wrong.
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