The widely shared aspiration to achieve constitutional recognition and establish an Indigenous body to help close the gap has been sacrificed on the altar of Albanese’s ambition and overreach.
will tragically set back reconciling the original inhabitants of this ancient land with modern Australia.
But when asked to explain the defeat, Anthony Albanese immediately pointed the finger at Peter Dutton and the Coalition by blaming lack of bipartisanship.The Australian Financial Review Amid such Brexit-like polarisation, seeking to blame Peter Dutton or the misinformation of the No campaign serves little purpose.
Mr Albanese bet all or nothing on the constitutionally enshrined Voice that now has been doubly rejected by a majority of all voters and by a majority of voters in every state. That failed to neutralise the No campaign’s suggestion that the Voice would focus on the progressive Indigenous agenda of truth-telling, sovereignty, treaty, and reparations, rather than coming to grips with how to spend the billions of dollars of government funding for Indigenous service more effectively, or why the royalties earned from native title spanning half the Australian landmass don’t do more to improve the economic circumstances on the ground in remote communities.
The question now is what is the way forward for overcoming the shameful Indigenous health, employment, and educational outcomes that mock the idea of Australian equality.Having defeated the Voice, the onus is surely on the No camp to now constructively help drive the political debate about how to end the national tragedy that is the gap between remote Indigenous Australia and the rest of the country.
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