Garigarra Riley-Mundine feels the opinions of the leading no campaigner are at odds with how her family was raised
The daughter of leading no campaigner Warren Mundine says her father’s public statements on the voice to parliament referendum have been hurtful and go against what she was raised to see as “morally right”.
“And I’m seeing and hearing everything that my father is saying and – although he is entitled completely to his opinions – it really goes against what I feel is morally right and how I’ve been raised and the family that I come from. At the National Press Club last week, Mundine called the Uluru statement from the heart a “symbolic declaration of war”. He described the voice as a “centralised overlord” and maintained “most“It hurt because I feel that the Uluru statement came from a place of unity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people,” she says.
“I see the voice to parliament and the Uluru statement from the heart as an outstretched hand to say, ‘Help us help ourselves. We want to have a voice in our future and in the policies and programs that affect us.’”
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