Objections to the date of Australia Day persist, but this year opposition to the voice bubbled to the fore
‘Indigenous people have been patient for a couple of centuries while white Australia refused to reflect, refused to listen, refused to atone, refused to engage.’‘Indigenous people have been patient for a couple of centuries while white Australia refused to reflect, refused to listen, refused to atone, refused to engage.’Last modified on Thu 26 Jan 2023 08.
The pitch needed to be simple, because Albanese lacks the silver tongue of a Kennedy or Obama, and because the appeal wasn’t being made in a vacuum. In a referendum campaign sense, Australia Day was the obvious springboard to next steps. But the day is both totemic and bitterly contested. Objections to the date persist, but this year, opposition to the voice bubbled to the fore. “Fuck your voice,” read one prominent sign, ferried through Canberra to the Aboriginal tent embassy. “No to the voice – manufactured constitutional consent”, read several others outside the old parliament house.
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