Age readers react to the latest AFL news, and the referendum.
Dear Australia, Soon you will be asked to write a single word on a ballot paper after reading many others and asking yourself long and hard what they mean to you, to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, and to your future.
The Voice to parliament won’t be able to make laws, control funding, order compensation or sit in the houses of parliament. First Nations leaders have asked for a committee that gives government advice on issues that affect Indigenous communities. Parliament will decide the details like it does with every other body it establishes. It’s that simple. I’ll be saying yes to this invitation to listen.The real problem if the Voice is defeated that no one will know who speaks for Indigenous people.
If the AFL really wants to stop the carnage of chronic traumatic encephalopathy , it simply needs to motivate players better – a hit to the head equals ″x″ number of weeks’ suspension plus however long the other player is out of the game for.Geoff Sheahan, Wantirna SouthA Tasmanian AFL side is not a fait accompli.
When I visited Australia, I was constantly lunged at by oncoming untrained dogs, and wherever I walked, regional or urban, barking dogs were always present.
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Voice is advisory and will not deliver programs or have veto power: Linda BurneyIndigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney has reiterated that the Voice to Parliament is advisory and will not deliver programs or have any veto power. “The principles of the Voice are agreed to, and they outline clearly the way in which the Voice will have gender parity,” Ms Burney said during Question Time on Thursday. “The most important thing about this Voice is that – as the Prime Minister has said – it is an advisory body to the parliament.” Australians will head to the ballot box in October to vote in the Voice referendum. Support for the proposal continues to plummet in the polls as a recent survey by Resolve Strategic revealed the overall No vote has grown to 57 per cent from 54 per cent last month.
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Albanese faces character test on ailing Voice: DuttonPeter Dutton says the prime minister should keep pushing the Voice if the referendum fails, even though he admits voters are sick of hearing about it.
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Andrew Bolt slams Linda Burney’s ‘pathetic’ Question Time responseSky News host Andrew Bolt has slammed Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney’s “pathetic” response to a question in Parliament on Wednesday. Ms Burney was asked how the Voice to Parliament will reconcile different or competing priorities between the many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, customs, languages and laws. The minister responded to the question by listing off the proposed question and amendments for the referendum. “That was an abuse of Parliament’s time,” Mr Bolt said. “If the minister for the Voice cannot even answer a question like that about the Voice, how can you trust the Voice she's selling?”
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Anthony Albanese ‘never’ should’ve put Voice referendum forwardSky News host Peta Credlin says the Voice to Parliament debate has become 'ugly” and it is Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s fault. Ms Credlin said the Prime Minister “should never have put forward something as contentious” as the Voice referendum. “On a subject as sensitive as this, just because a select group of the Aboriginal elites demanded it,” she said. “Just as the PM should have known that his job was to lead the whole nation – not just his own, green-left tribe. “He should have also realised that successful constitutional change has to belong to all of us – not just the Indigenous elites that met six years ago at Uluru.”
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Indigenous voice to parliament no campaign leading in every state, poll analysis showsSupport for voice has dropped by 21 percentage points nationally in the past year, according to Guardian Australia’s poll tracker
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