As Australians prepare to vote in a historic referendum, the ABC's Voice correspondent Dan Bourchier travels to the north, west and east of the country for Four Corners and finds a nation grappling with its future.
abc.net.au/news/voice-referendum-australia-answers-complicated-four-corners/102832900Ben Abbatangelo's view on the Voice to Parliament has moved from a reluctant "Yes" to a hard-edged "No".
I've been coming to Garma for more than a decade, reporting on the highs and lows of the political debate about Indigenous Australians. It's the place numerous prime ministers have visited to speak with Gumatj leader and land rights pioneer Yunupingu. This is the first one since the old man died. She welcomed me to her home in Fitzroy Crossing earlier this year and poured water over my head as she asked me to speak my name to her land. I listened to her understanding of Country through the experiences of generation after generation of her family.June speaks with the ABC's Voice correspondent Dan Bourchier.
June hopes having a Voice to Parliament will limit Indigenous people being used as a political football. "If Aboriginal Australia is fully embraced, think of the contribution we can make, not only about ourselves but to making Australia a better country as a whole … It's so much more than just closing gaps.""This referendum won't change who we are. It will reveal who we are. Whatever the outcome, our country will be different on the Monday after."
Brendan Moore, a Whadjuk, Yuid, Wardandi Nyoongar man who used to chair the company that oversees the disbursement of the Noongar treaty funds, says the settlement bears an important lesson for the Voice debate."I'm sure there's still a lot of people that are sad about the surrendering of their inalienable rights, however, a lot have come to realise the benefits that we're now seeing.
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