As a referendum approaches, will there be political unity on a Voice? | camerongooley
As Linda Burney waited patiently in Government House for her turn to be sworn into the ministry, it was impossible to miss the kangaroo-skin cloak draped around her shoulders. Made for the Wiradjuri woman by her close friend Lynette Riley, the cloak was covered in imagery depicting Burney’s personal totem – the white cockatoo – and her life journey.
Burney has already made history by securing a seat at the table, but her time as Indigenous Australians minister will be defined by whether she achieves something far more difficult: the first successful referendum in 45 years.Burney wasted no time in spruiking the government’s Indigenous affairs agenda.
Firstly, the government will need to pass a referendum bill through both houses of parliament, and it doesn’t hold a majority in the Senate. It will need the help of either the Greens or the Coalition to get it through the upper house. , may be an influential voice in the party room. The outspoken conservative former deputy mayor of Alice Springs and regular Sky News Australia contributor is currently the Coalition’s only Indigenous MP, after former Indigenous Australians minister Ken Wyatt lost his seat in Perth.
“[The Voice] doesn't clearly outline how in fact we’re going to solve some of our really critical issues, issues that I’ve been very much campaigning on for many years around family and domestic violence, around child sexual abuse, around education,” she said. Bragg lamented the years of harmful rhetoric that had plagued debate around the Voice within his party since the Uluru Statement was issued to the Australian people in 2017.
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