Troy Bramston wants us to sign a blank cheque for the voice – and the amount (the cost to Australian democracy) will be filled in only once we’ve signed off on the (unexplained) plan at a referendum.
SA’s first federal indigenous MP has come out against the voice, saying the plan lacks detail and is being rushed to meet an arbitrary deadline.
There are a lot of questions to be answered about how the voice will work.
Tasmania’s new Liberal Premier has promised to campaign for an Indigenous voice, backed a republic and flagged debate on whether nuclear submarines should be welcomed in his state.
Albanese is a fool if he assumes Australians will support a gesture without detail – this is a referendum of consequence.
The PM and Labor need to build unity, not division, and address important issues for First Nations peoples.
Our First Nation fellow citizens are unlike all others, all the rest of us. Not “in themselves” but in their historical position and standing.
Noel Pearson has described the effort to put an Indigenous voice in the Australian Constitution as ‘a big struggle’ as well as an opportunity to unite the nation.
Despite the confidence of those proposing a form of constitutional recognition of Aborigines, the outcome of a referendum, I suggest, is no lay down misere.
There is growing support for Aboriginal input in parliament. But there is work still to be done to unite all Australians.
Lisa Wilkinson and the Mosman Muppets just are not enough. Anthony Albanese needs conservatives on board or a referendum is doomed to fail.
Opportunities for fame, high appointments and fashion awards expand on the de facto basis of our already having two nations.
Acclaimed Australian filmmaker Rachel Perkins says she and others calling for an Indigenous voice to parliament have been subjected to accusations they are ‘elite blacks’.
The impressive Jacinta Nampijinpa Price views a referendum as a distraction. I believe it will be worse: it will be divisive.
The incoming Indigenous MP for Australia’s Red Centre has declared the Greens are a bigger threat to the Voice to parliament than the Coalition.
It’s time for some clearly defined policy differentiation or this government is history at this crucial time.
Janet Albrechtsen mounts a compelling argument as to why any Indigenous voice should be subject to parliamentary oversight.
There is still a great deal of scepticism about the Indigenous voice to parliament.
Allira Davis took a different path to other Indigenous leaders. She went to league matches and on to the streets to talk to young voters.
Aboriginal elder Pat Anderson is preparing for what many see as the most important federal election for her people in decades.
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