WATCH LIVE In the most significant speech on Indigenous affairs by a prime minister since the 2008 National Apology, Albanese is making the case for a referendum. | By James Massola auspol
, who have warned a Voice could divide Australia and demanded more detail about how it would operate.
“It recognises the centuries-old failure Paul Keating spoke of at Redfern, the failure to ask the most basic human question: how would I feel, if this were done to me?” Albanese will argue a constitutionally enshrined Voice will mean “will exist and endure outside of the ups and downs of election cycles and the weakness of short-term politics.”for the former government recommended a 24-member national Voice to parliament be created.
Mutitjulu elder Rolley Mintuma and Pat Anderson from the Referendum Council with a piti holding the Uluru Statement from the Heart in 2017 when the Voice to parliament was first proposed.“They want a formal guarantee that the government will make decisions in conjunction with them over matters that affect their daily lives, such as essential services, potable drinking water, housing, schools, health clinics,” she said.
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