Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney sounded confident when she told The Age: “I believe Australians are ready to take the next step.' But there are enough early signs to suggest this is naive optimism. | LatimoreJack
the goals of her project were more urgent than the Voice. And Greens senator for Victoria, Lidia Thorpe, a Djab Wurrung Gunnai-Gunditjmara woman, this week said she had “many activists around the country” preparing campaigns against a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous Voice.These are the Aboriginal opponents., though the party itself is yet to reach a position.
Or should it be a simple yes/no question – Voice or no Voice? – which would invite the accusation that those who framed it are keeping people in the dark?Earlier this week, Labor senator Pat Dodson promised to produce an “exposure document” on the Voice by Christmas, to set out key elements of the government’s proposed model.
“I would like us to present the Australian people with the clearest possible referendum question. We should consider asking our fellow Australians something as simple as: It proposed a 24-member national body to provide advice to government and parliament on legislation affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Two representatives would come from each state and territory; two from the Torres Strait Islands; and an additional five remote Aboriginal community residents – one each from Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland, NSW and South Australia.
campaign alongside high profile Indigenous constitutional reform advocates Noel Pearson, Tanya Hosch and Karen Mundine, says polling shows strong support for the Voice. Rather than campaign funding, Williams is more concerned that Australia’s referendum rules have not kept pace with the modern age, particularly social media, which did not exist in 1999.Judging by the debate when parliament opened this week, it’s likely there will be a “no” campaign, whether funded by the Commonwealth or not.
She was part of a group of about 20 delegates that walked out of the Uluru national dialogue in 2017, saying the conference was “a one-way conversation”.
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