A group of 50 Indigenous leaders and organisations have held talks aimed at navigating a path forward following the rejected Voice referendum.
For many Australians, the Voice referendum has already disappeared in the rearview mirror. Another notch on the tally of failed attempts at constitutional change to be pored over by historians, policy wonks and political strategists for years to come as voters largely press on with their daily lives, many preoccupied with cost-of-living pressures.
Other senior Indigenous figures, among them prominent Voice advocate Marcia Langton, believe that reconciliation is now dead, so damaged is the relationship between black and white Australia. Gordon supports an expansion of the “tried and tested” Empowered Communities model pioneered by Pearson in Cape York during the Abbott government era.
However, without signatories the authority of the document and the depth of support for it is unclear. As revealed by this masthead, a number of Indigenous leaders, including Oscar, Mick Gooda and Pat Turner, declined to endorse an earlier draft version of the statement after being concerned by the tone and some of its content.
“There remains a dire need to establish representative bodies at all levels of decision-making so that Indigenous people can self-determine who speaks on their behalf,” Mayo says.
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