Category: Indigenous Voice to Parliament

Details of Upcoming Referendum to Change Constitution Revealed

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed the exact wording that Australians will vote on in the upcoming referendum on whether to change the country’s Constitution. Voters will be asked: “A proposed law to alter the constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice. Do you approve…


Extinguishing the Principle of Political Equality in Australia

Commentary Following the successful 1967 referendum, which empowered the Australian Parliament to make laws for “the people of any race for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws,” there was a general expectation that we would finally become a colour-blind society. A society where the distribution of societal burdens and benefits would not…


Australia Appoints First Nations Ambassador in Bid to ‘Progress Indigenous Rights Globally’

The Australian federal government has announced the country’s First Nations ambassador in an attempt to elevate Indigenous rights to the world stage. The move comes as the Labor government continues to push for greater Indigenous representation in politics, despite it already having an Indigenous Australians Minister and 17 major Indigenous organisations and programs at the…


A ‘Voice to Parliament’ Challenges Our Democratic System

Commentary Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s proposed constitutional change to give Aboriginal people a “Voice to Parliament” is well-intentioned. However, as the proverb says, “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.” Albanese’s Voice proposal challenges the very foundation of our nation as a representative democracy. Like other representative democracies, this nation is constituted by…


New Zealand’s Own Indigenous ‘Voice to Parliament’ Has Failed Maoris: Advocate

In a warning to Australians set to vote on altering their Constitution, New Zealander Casey Costello says her country’s own Indigenous “Voice to Parliament” has not had the desired effect and has become a burden on its democracy. Costello, part-Maori and Anglo-Irish, is the founding trustee of the Hobson’s Pledge, said the Waitangi Tribunal, established…


Big Tech Censorship of Australia’s Voice Debate Must Be Stopped: Think Tank

Google and Facebook have been accused of censoring debate on a contentious proposal to change the Australian Constitution to include a special parliamentary body representing Aboriginal Australians. The Melbourne-based Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) said it provided three examples to the prime minister of programs it produced on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament that were…


Money for Indigenous ‘Voice’ Should Go Directly to Struggling Communities: Former NBA Player

The millions being spent on encouraging Australians to vote to change the Constitution should, instead, be directly spent on helping Indigenous communities, says former NBA player Andrew Bogut. His comments come as reports emerge of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese personally lobbying the country’s sporting leagues to back the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, which will effectively shrine…


Indigenous Voices Who Oppose ‘Uluru Statement’ Being Marginalised, Indigenous Senator Says

Many Indigenous Australians who disagree with the left’s proposed “Uluru Statement from the Heart” have been “ignored or bullied,” contrary to the narrative that the statement represents a consensus among Indigenous leaders, an Australian senator has warned. The Uluru Statement is a 2017 petition by a group of Aboriginal leaders who called for constitutional reform…


‘Yes’ Campaign for Changing Australia’s Constitution Officially Launched

The official “Yes” campaign has been launched to support changing Australia’s Constitution to include an “advisory body” for Indigenous peoples. The campaign was launched at the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in Adelaide on Feb. 23 by the From the Heart organisation. Semara Jose, a member of the campaign, said the launch would send a…


What Could Go Wrong With a ‘Voice to Parliament’? A Lot

Commentary Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, together with all the state and territory premiers have officially backed an Indigenous “voice” to parliament, to advise parliament and the federal government on policy matters. He says it is a priority for his government to secure this successful constitutional referendum in the second half of this year. In…