Tagged: Australian politics-Indigenous rights
Reading Time: 2 minutes Statistics revealing the extent to which Indigenous Affairs policies have failed to bridge the gap for Indigenous Peoples, and the Prime Minister’s continuing failure to take note of the Voice referendum’s outcome calling for a new approach underline the failure and inappropriateness of this and previous governments’ policies.
Reading Time: 6 minutes Misinformation can determine the outcome of political polls, but do we blame such for our losses because we find the votes of our opponents incomprehensible.
Reading Time: < 1 minute A No vote victory on the Voice to Parliament proposal would not leave Indigenous affairs ‘nowhere’. Contrary to what the Yes camp wants us to believe, making the Voice permanent would not necessarily be a step forward. While governments have repeatedly appointed and Indigenous advisory bodies that governments appointed and abolished, the wording of the proposed constitutional amendment would allow Parliament to alter at will literally everything about the Voice apart from its existence.