Grant used a keynote speech to say he doubted he would see change in his lifetime, as he criticised Albanese for repeatedly calling the Voice “a modest request”.
High-profile former ABC journalist and Voice advocate Stan Grant has broken his silence following the defeat of the referendum, saying Australia’s views on reconciliation were set in stone by the No vote and he doubted he would live to see a changed nation.
He also said the No vote had crushed his own hope that the voice of his ancestors would speak through him. “My country has buried my ancestors for a second time,” he said.He described her as the “victorious politician who says this No vote puts an end to the politics of grievance” and who waves away generational trauma as “mere contrivance”.
Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price in the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday after the referendum defeat.Last week, Yes campaigner Thomas Mayo spoke of the “emptiness in my chest” after the crushing defeat, but vowed to keep fighting for recognition which is “unfinished business” for Australia.
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