Opposition Indigenous Australians spokesman Julian Leeser says the Labor Albanese government needs to clarify the definition of Aboriginality to determine who can sit on a voice to parliament. In a letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese earlier this year, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton asked 15 questions of the proposed voice, including whether the government will confirm the definition…
Labor Needs to Clarify Indigenous Definition in Australia: Coalition
March 11, 2023
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Indigenous Voices Who Oppose ‘Uluru Statement’ Being Marginalised, Indigenous Senator Says
February 26, 2023
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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…
‘Help Me Save the Lives of Those I Love’: Price Calls for Return to Howard-Era Alcohol Ban
February 10, 2023
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The Australian federal government is being called on to enforce intervention-era alcohol restrictions in the Northern Territory with Country Liberal Senator Jacinta Price calling the current ban a “half-baked policy.” Price, an Indigenous senator, sought bipartisan support for her Northern Territory Safe Measures Bill 2023, which will establish a federal and territory government partnership to…
The Multiple Fallacies Contained Within the Voice to Parliament
February 2, 2023
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Commentary Australia is beginning to tear itself apart at the behest of the clumsy and ham-fisted approach of the government and its determination to shoehorn the Indigenous Voice to Parliament (the Voice) into the Australian Constitution. What is being promoted as healing and reconciling is in practice dividing and alienating. The Voice is a proposal…
Think Tank Calls for Respectful Debate Around Indigenous Voice Following Attack on Senator’s Views
The conservative think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), has called for the debate around the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament to be respectful and constructive. This comes after Indigenous Voice advocate Noel Pearson told ABC Radio National that the IPA was in part manipulating Indigenous Nothern Territory Senator Jacinta Yangapi Nampijinpa Price into…
Nationals Announce They Will Not Support the Indigenous Voice to Parliament
November 28, 2022
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The National party has announced it will not support the federal Labor government’s move to create a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous Voice to Parliament. In Australia, the National Party typically represents regional and rural Australians, including many of the outback Indigenous communities. Speaking at a press conference, National Party leader David Littleproud said that his party…
University Reinstates Marks for Student Who Was Penalised for Not Acknowledging Indigenous Rights
November 18, 2022
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One of Australia’s top universities has overturned a decision to dock marks from a student after failing to acknowledge the traditional land rights of Indigenous people. The move came after the engineering student filed a formal complaint at Melbourne’s prestigious Monash University on Oct. 7. A Monash university spokesperson told the Herald Sun newspaper that the…
Affirmative Action Removes Individual Agency: Indigenous Senator
October 6, 2022
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Framing Aboriginal Australians as victims removes responsibility from themselves as an individual rather than helping them flourish, says an Indigenous Australian senator. Jacinta Price, new Country Liberal Party senator for Northern Territory, told The Epoch Times on Oct. 1 that such an approach creates the expectation that the “perceived oppressor,” who is white Australians…
Indigenous Leader Pans ‘Woke’ Corporations for Supporting Change to Australia’s Constitution
September 25, 2022
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Indigenous leader Warren Mundine has criticised Australia’s business community for throwing support behind changing the country’s Constitution to enshrine an “Indigenous Voice to Parliament.” Mundine also said he spoke with many business leaders who admitted they had little understanding of the impact of the “Voice.” “What’s happening in the background is in the business community;…
Australia’s Acknowledgment of Country More Like ‘Lip Service’: Indigenous Senator
An Indigenous Senator has described the acknowledgment of country as “lip service” as she vowed to “smash the racial stereotype” that Aboriginal Australians should toe the progressive line. Australia’s acknowledgment of country is a practice where an individual pays respect to Aboriginal people, country, culture and heritage, and is usually done at the beginning of…
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