Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will return to the Garma festival with a speech long on hope and short on policy proposals.
As retiring Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney declared history would look kindly upon the Voice effort,Liberal MP Julian Leeser lamented the “national silence” that has existed since its defeat.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the resignations will allow him to refresh his ministry after two years with an unchanged team.
There is growing expectation in Labor ranks that a pair of cabinet ministers are poised to announce they will not contest the next election and will step down from cabinet immediately.
Anthony Albanese’s ministers have portfolios – they also have other roles:confidantes,influencers,attack dogs. And some are more equal than others.
Sometimes in politics – like when you realise your opponent will always punch harder – you should exit the ring and try another approach.
A blistering Productivity Commission review says governments have not delivered on their landmark 2020 agreement to transform the way public servants and politicians work with Indigenous Australians.
Nearly three months after Australians overwhelmingly voted No to the Voice,Labor has said little about its agenda to improve living standards among First Australians.
Just a third of Australians support treaty and truth-telling processes between the federal government and Indigenous Australians following the Voice referendum.
Progress on a $316 million centre the Morrison government announced last year appears to have stalled in the office of Linda Burney.
The prime minister argued Opposition Leader Peter Dutton risked making himself irrelevant if he opposed the Voice. It was a fatal misjudgment.