Members of the Biden administration have asked Prime Minister Anthony Albanese about the reasons for the defeat of the Indigenous Voice.
We need respectable bedrooms for our neediest children,not grotesque stir-crazy jail cells,or we risk the next generation being even worse off than the current.
A Solomon Islands official said the nation was keen to have the ancestral remains returned for proper burial.
A review has found that NSW Police has no commitment to Closing the Gap targets for the state’s Indigenous population.
Premier Roger Cook said Corrective Services did not have enough resources. “We’re hamstrung by infrastructure. We’re hamstrung by availability of staff,” he said following the tragic death of the teenager in custody.
An alliance of Aboriginal medical services also dismissed what it described as “attempts to politicise the issue of child sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities” while Liberal MP Bridget Archer crossed the floor.
A Voice is the key to ending entrenched disadvantage for Indigenous children,as agreed by the majority of Indigenous organisations and communities working towards this goal.
Whether the referendum vote is No or Yes,the nation’s real work starts on Sunday.
In 1967,the No vote on recognising Indigenous people in the Constitution didn’t get over 10 per cent in any Sydney electorate.
A young Indigenous man serving a controversial life sentence corresponded for years with a Sydney journalist – then came an unexpected twist.
If the Voice is defeated,we must hope it drives us towards a greater understanding of the disadvantage in our midst.