Education Minister Jason Clare says the idea of a Voice referendum came from Indigenous people asking Australians to work with them. “This is not a Labor idea; this is not a Liberal idea; this is the idea of Indigenous Australians asking us to work with them, asking us to listen, holding out their hand.” Mr Clare told Sky News Australia. “Australians have got a choice in the next few weeks to shake that hand or to slap it away.' Mr Clare encouraged Australians to find it in their head to vote for the Voice referendum if they couldn’t find it in their heart. “If you’re a young Indigenous bloke today, you’re more likely to go to jail than to university, and it costs taxpayers $11,000 a year to send a young Australian to university; it costs taxpayers $148,000 a year to send that same Australian to jail, 13 times as much.”
Education Minister Jason Clare says the idea of a Voice referendum came from Indigenous people asking Australians to work with them.
“This is not a Labor idea; this is not a Liberal idea; this is the idea of Indigenous Australians asking us to work with them, asking us to listen, holding out their hand.” Mr Clare told Sky News Australia.Mr Clare encouraged Australians to find it in their head to vote for the Voice referendum if they couldn’t find it in their heart.
“If you’re a young Indigenous bloke today, you’re more likely to go to jail than to university, and it costs taxpayers $11,000 a year to send a young Australian to university; it costs taxpayers $148,000 a year to send that same Australian to jail, 13 times as much.”
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