Controversial No campaigner Gary Johns plans to reinvent his anti-Voice outfit Recognise a Better Way as a charity called Close the Gap Research after the referendum.
Controversial anti-Voice advocate Gary Johns will reinvent the No campaign organisation, Recognise a Better Way, as a charity after the referendum with the aim of researching the effectiveness of programs in Indigenous communities and countering the dominance of “elites” in Aboriginal affairs.
In an interview, Johns confirmed his plan to transition Recognise a Better Way into a charity called Close the Gap Research, which he told supporters in an email last month was designed to break the “stranglehold of the elites over Aboriginal policy”. Recognise a Better Way is one of two main No campaign organisations. The other, Fair Australia, is backed by conservative lobby group Advance and is led by Coalition frontbencher Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.Johns came under fire for a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in August in which he claimed that Indigenous people in remote communities were in a “stupor” and should “learn English” if they wanted a voice.
Pressed on whether organisations would hesitate to work with his charity or question its motivations in light of his controversial remarks, Johns said he was already talking to some providers and had their confidence, but declined to name them. s, Burney said she had made changes in June to address an audit that highlighted what she called the “clearly deficient” safeguards in place during nine years of Coalition government.
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