A prominent Aboriginal Senator has claimed the Indigenous Voice to Parliament has been hijacked by “the elites” pushing an agenda.
Plans for the referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament have been at the forefront of the Labor Party’s policy platform since before the May election.
Love news? Stream 25+ news channels in 1 place. New to Flash? Try 1 month free. Offer ends 31 October, 2023 “When you’ve even got the leader of the Greens, who can’t even back up his First Nations spokesperson.” “I’m telling you now, this is the elites pushing what they believe Aboriginal Australians need,” she said of the Voice proposal. “So that’s who we’ll be tapping into at a grassroots level.
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