Exclusive: PM says process has already succeeded in bringing Indigenous disadvantage front and centre in national conversation
If, however, a majority voted no, that would be “disappointing”, Albanese said in an interview with Guardian Australia’s politics podcast.But he argued the process has already succeeded in raising consciousness about the gap in outcomes between Indigenous people and the rest of the community, and that focus would continue. “I do think that there will be, from this point on, there will be more of a focus on Indigenous disadvantage,” Albanese said on the podcast.
Albanese acknowledged that terrible things were being said during the referendum debate. He referenced an “extraordinary” pamphlet he’d seen recently characterising the push for the voice as a “Jewish conspiracy”. “That process in itself is something that I believe is positive; the fact that we’re talking about Indigenous disadvantage not on the fringes [of the national conversation] but on the front pages of newspapers.”
The Albanese government has put forward the referendum question:"A Proposed Law: to alter the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Do you approve this proposed alteration?" There shall be a body, to be called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.
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