The Voice will be about recognition, and it will be about listening.
At tonight’s Lowitja O’Donoghue Oration in Adelaide, I spoke about how Australians will have the chance to vote Yes to the future we seek to build. Lowitja O’Donoghue was driven by her faith in the Australian people and their instinct for a fair go.
“I do not disparage the symbolic ... As the 1967 referendum shows: the larger gestures may have to underpin other forms of progress,” she said. Back then, Australians voted in a referendum to remove a harmful, discriminatory relic. In 2023, our generation can go one better.
A moment of Australian unity. An extraordinary opportunity for every Australian to be counted and heard – to own this change and be proud of it, and truly live the spirit of the fair go.
@AlboMP What, by imploring us to assent to a constitutional alteration that would insert a new chapter comprising permanent representative distinction as to race? Utter nonsense NO.
@AlboMP Give up trying to conflate the 1967 referendum with what you’re doing. All Australians will happily acknowledge indigenous Australians, we are one family. We do not however desire laws which provide different privileges or outcomes for different races. Wake up #ChickenLittle
@AlboMP Can we clarify if current royal assent is to the dead queen or the son who hangs around with pedophiles? Or is it still to the made-up ‘Queen of Australia”???
@AlboMP You don't listen now, what is new besides nothing.. Vote No as it's to dangerous. Give us facts about sovereignty and rent for our land. The voice brings nothing new. Why don't you share facts about its paramaters.. What is out of reach for the legal voice
@AlboMP The 1967 removed racism, it was good; the sorry statement apologised for racism, it was good; your proposition introduces racism, it is not good. Why are you not removing this: