In the year of the Voice, Australians must overcome a language barrier if we're to speak to each other, to hear the same truth
2 years, 1 month ago

In the year of the Voice, Australians must overcome a language barrier if we're to speak to each other, to hear the same truth

ABC  

We have a communication problem in Australia. Photo shows Lidia Thorpe points as she looks up at a press conference Senator Lidia Thorpe's decision to quit the Greens to represent "a strong grassroots black sovereign movement" has left some wondering what the movement is and how it differs from a Voice to Parliament. Maori political scientist Dominic O'Sullivan says sovereignty "is not an absolute and indivisible power, exercised over subjects by an all powerful crown". How Voice to Parliament may work Photo shows Indigenous dancers of the Butchulla people on Fraser Island in south-east Queensland on October 24, 2014. In the criticism of the ABC's coverage this past week, First Nations voices — including reporter Carly Williams, who has been subjected to awful attacks — have been drowned out by white journalists and commentators.

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A bruising week for Indigenous people as the nation debates the Voice and opens old wounds
1 year, 6 months ago

A bruising week for Indigenous people as the nation debates the Voice and opens old wounds

ABC  

A month out from a referendum and it might be the ugliest week Aboriginal people have been subjected to in what can feel like an interminable campaign. Wotjobaluk man and assembly member Dylan Clarke, whose name was deceptively used to spread the message, said the letter was designed depict Aboriginal people "as something to be afraid of". Fear of the …

As we debate the Indigenous Voice to Parliament there is one word missing: Compassion
2 years, 1 month ago

As we debate the Indigenous Voice to Parliament there is one word missing: Compassion

ABC  

In all of the discussion about the Indigenous Constitutional Voice that is the one word missing. A group of high-profile Indigenous Australians has banded together with a former deputy prime minister to co-ordinate the No campaign ahead of this year's Voice referendum. On the suffering of Indigenous people in South America, Metz wrote that he "saw the eyes without dreams, …

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