Opinion: Did basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal really endorse the proposal for a constitutionally enshrined Voice to parliament? It’s kind of hard to tell, writes Osman Faruqi
“He’s come in and commenting on our politics in our own country which he knows nothing about except for a meeting with the Labor Party,” Thorpe said.
You can understand the government’s desire to try and do everything they can to build momentum for the Voice. It’s high stakes, both for Albanese who pledged on election night that he would implement it, and for the entire country given the deep injustices inflicted upon Indigenous people since colonisation, and the limited attempts from our political class to redress those injustices.
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