ANALYSIS: Camouflaging a 'resounding no' in yeses, Peter Dutton puts his Liberal leadership on the line
And now we face a situation where history is being re-written at a breakneck pace.
This, according to the Uluru Statement From The Heart, would do little to help close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. It's been 15 years since Kevin Rudd's historic apology to Stolen Generations and after all these years, the nation has little to show for the pledge to right wrongs.
Liberal Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff and at least two other state Liberal leaders are committed to campaigning for the Voice. Former Liberal cabinet minister Ken Wyatt — the first Aboriginal man to hold the Indigenous Affairs portfolio —Federal Tasmanian Liberal MP Bridget Archer will continue to campaign for the Voice, while Simon Birmingham, Paul Fletcher and Marise Payne, according to the Guardian, raised their concerns about the policy in a shadow cabinet meeting.
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