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After the voice defeat, we can never again allow politics to suspend the cause of Indigenous justice – Paula Gerber and Melissa Castan (www.theguardian.com)

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A hundred days on from the unsuccessful referendum, it’s time to rebuild momentum for the rights of First Nations people

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

what LNP are actually doing is very different to what they said on the campaign trail

Their Victorian branch literally just pulled support for what was a bipartisan promise for an Indigenous Treaty - something that had been promised for years.

Until the LNP gets rid of their conservative, gutless, old, white, male policy-makers, we'll never progress as a society. And I'm an (almost) old, white male.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The biggest problem was the LNP backing out and refusing to support [the Voice], even though this was a bipartisan effort all along (and actually started when LNP was in government).

Their [LNP] Victorian branch literally just pulled support for what was a bipartisan promise for an Indigenous Treaty - something that had been promised for years.

Qld LNP also abandoned support for treaty

Are we seeing a pattern here? When it's time to actually do something, that's when you see what their real position is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Certainly seems like it, doesn't it? Like I said, they're gutless. Unwilling to commit to acting on their empty promises when the time comes.