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says people rallying a “no” vote to the voice to parliament at yesterday’s Invasion Day rallies need to realise that it is the way forward to alleviate disadvantage.
First Nations people around the country who participated in the regional dialogues and the delegates that they elected to come to the convention issued the Uluru Statement from the Heart to the Australian people, which was a culmination of all their work over many over many weeks and months. Voting on the voice to parliament is one of the most important decisions many Australians will make, Anderson tells ABC RN.
Anderson says an Indigenous voice to parliament is “the only thing that’s left open” to First Nations people to overcome entrenched disadvantage.What the people said at the regional dialogues is to use their big law and that big law is the constitution because we’ve been talking for a long time, for generations, and successive governments refuse to hear or to listen. They just move on to the next to the next thing. That’s got to stop. This is the torment of our powerlessness.
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