Protesters express differing views on the Indigenous voice to parliament
at a large rally in Melbourne that “I have not got a guarantee [from Labor] that our sovereignty will not be ceded [if an Indigenous voice to parliament proceeds].”
Constitutional law experts say the voice will “have no impact on sovereignty”. “They’re like ships passing in the night,”The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, responded to Thorpe’s anti-voice sentiment by saying he was “not going to engage in that sort of partisan politics”, adding that an Indigenous voice “will improve our country, improve our national unity”.
. “It’s important that we as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have an opportunity to be able to contribute to policies that impact us, and programs and legislation – and that’s the first step,” he said.The search for 61-year-old Wendy Sleeman is “transitioning … to a suspected homicide”, police say, but investigators. Her 30-year-old son, Slade Murdok, was today charged with a string of domestic violence-related offences, including kidnapping, assault and burglary.
Northern Territory police arrested a 32-year-old man, reportedly Mark Horne, as a yacht attempted to sail out of Darwin on Wednesday afternoonOne of NSW’s most-wanted men, reportedly 32-year-old Mark Horne, has beenof a yacht in Darwin. A nationwide manhunt started in October last year after he allegedly skipped bail. Horne was due to face trial in NSW for allegedly being involved in the shooting of a truck driver and theft of $550,000 in the Blue Mountains in September 2020.
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