Rather than a period of reflection and listening post-Voice, we have seen a rapid return to the obstructive habits that produced failure in the first place.
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Both over-confident and under-prepared, the government has kept repeating its mistakes, diminishing the chances of meaningful reform in the process.
Almost a year after the Voice proposal was defeated, blame and recrimination are still being thrown around, and the government is still reeling from Albanese’s overreach.
In surveying people both before and after the poll, we found the most decisive factors in determining the way people voted weren’t gender, politics, age or income.
After the referendum loss, the government hasn’t had much of a plan for Indigenous Australians. The new minister’s biggest challenge will be making one.
The latest Closing the Gap report reveals just four of the 19 targets are on track to be achieved. It comes after years of failing to give First Nations people a say over their own lives.
In this podcast, Kim Beazley joins The Conversation to talk about the Albanese visit and the international situation.
The result was definitive, a major rebuff for Anthony Albanese and, more important, for the many Indigenous Australians who had put their hopes in what was always a long shot.
The ‘no’ vote defeating the referendum is just one part of a long political journey for First Nations people. What went wrong for the ‘yes’ campaign, and where does Australia go from here?
The referendum has highlighted what many have previously overlooked or denied: that Indigenous Australians (like other Australians) aren’t of one political mind
For over 100 years, the Victorian school curriculum has failed to give generations of students the chance to learn about Indigenous political movements.
In order to see how the Voice to Parliament could work as an advisory body, we could look to the many Indigenous advisory bodies in different states informing government decision-making.
For decades, women from Munich to Melbourne, from Westminster to Washington, had been campaigning for a voice.
The PM also reconfirmed that if there is a no vote he will not seek to legislate a Voice
The Voice to Parliament could advise on how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges can help the country prepare for and lessen the damage of natural disasters such as bushfires.
As of late this week, Leeser had done about 90 webinars, public meetings and speeches advocating for the Voice
Despite the claim ‘there is no comparable constitutional body like this anywhere in the world’ many countries have similar institutions to the proposed Voice.
Marcia Langton is a woman who says what she thinks, and then some.
Like Langton, Price gives no quarter.
In this podcast, Redbridge Group CEO Kosmos Samaras joins The Conversation to dig into the research on voters attitudes so far
History is on the “no” side. Only eight of 44 referendum questions have been carried since federation
Top contributors
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Law, UNSW Law School, UNSW
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor Emerita in Constitutional Law, University of Sydney
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Senior research fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Australian and Aboriginal History, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW
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Lecturer, Griffith Law School, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer of Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Education and Research Centre, James Cook University
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Adjunct Professor, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington and Auckland University of Technology, Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University
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Principal Research Fellow, James Cook University
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Research Fellow (Indigenous Diplomacy), Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Macquarie University
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Senior Research Fellow, Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor - History, La Trobe University
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Research fellow, Murdoch University