What would the first Aboriginal parliamentarian have thought of the voice to parliament? None of us can ever know – not even George Brandis
Such determination to follow principle ahead of party strictures indicates independent thought. He was no party hack easily intimidated by the whips. Indeed, around parliament, Bonner was often a lone – and lonely – figure, certainly not wholly socially embraced by his own party.He was enigmatic. By accounts, sometimes difficult to read when it came to how he thought – or might vote – on given issues.
Brandis writes: “His memory is preserved in the name of a federal electorate and a new pedestrian bridge across the Brisbane River. Yet it has been entirely absent from the current debate about the Voice. Perhaps that is because he would have hated the idea: it would have offended both his constitutional conservatism and his profound belief in equal citizenship for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians alike.
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