ANALYSIS: A spectre will haunt our politics this year. Can Albanese cast it aside?
abc.net.au/news/debate-voice-referendum-noise-division-before-details-decided/101900808January 26 is not the best day to gauge the progress of a campaign to recognise Indigenous Australians in the Constitution, and to establish a body that gives them a platform from which to be heard by the government and the parliament on issues that affect them.
Equally, there were hostility and clear divisions within the First Nations community, with some not only arguing against supporting the Voice because they don't believe it will change anything, to claiming it would actually undermine Indigenous rights. The federal government also insists everyone have a chill pill because a referendum is still at least nine months away.
And in fact, it looked very much like exactly the sort of band-aid that has so often been the hallmark of responses to crises in Indigenous affairs. As did Opposition Leader Peter Dutton's intervention calling for the Australian Federal Police to be sent in. Confronted with a situation where the message demonstrably did not get through to Canberra that the lapsing of liquor laws last year was going to cause — and then did cause — all sorts of problems, what is happening in Alice Springs can be seen to promote the cause of a body which can speak authoritatively, in detail, and early, about what needs to be done.
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