The PM appears intent on cajoling Australians into thinking they have some sort of duty to vote 'yes' to an Indigenous Voice rather than actually creating an appealing formula for constitutional change, writes Daisy Cousens
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese gave a speech at the Garma festival over the weekend in which he revealed the staggeringly simple question to be put to Australians at a referendum;"Do you support an alteration to the constitution that establishes an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice?"Albanese is billing the Voice as the simple concept of consulting Indigenous people when issues affect them.
Anthony Albanese needs to present Australians with an appealing proposal for an Indigenous voice, rather than focusing on emotion and principle, writes Daisy Cousens. Picture: PMOIt memorably failed, even though there was broad public support.Since republicans couldn’t agree on the exact form, many of them voted “no” with the monarchists.
This was tabled by the last parliament, and is not an official, synthesised outline of what a Voice under Labor would be.
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