‘The Prime Minister finally visited Kununurra, however, it was glaringly obvious to WA voters that his trip to our north was nothing more than a calculated election campaign stunt,’ writes Melissa Price.
Melissa Price
It has been just over a year since the Voice to Parliament referendum was decided. For many it was a bewildering period followed by the deafening silence of inaction.
Helen Milroy
And move forward we must. We cannot allow the loss - though significant - to consume us.
Emma Garlett
Investors seeking to start projects in Indigenous communities will be able to use a new central point of contact to connect with traditional owners under a federal government plan.
Katina Curtis
Challenging the status quo to come together and unite is a mammoth task.
More than $92 million was spent during the Voice referendum campaign with almost half that amount coming from the official Yes campaign.
Katina Curtis and Dan Jervis-Bardy
The 94-year-old Dalkeith man who gave $1 million to the No campaign insists he is ‘not political’ and simply wanted to ‘balance’ the big spending of corporate Australia that was out to ‘denigrate’ Australia.
Dan Jervis-Bardy and Claire Sadler
A Perth company pumped more than $1 million into the right-wing outfit that led the No campaign in the Voice to Parliament referendum, it has been revealed.
Dan Jervis-Bardy and Neale Prior
Federal public servants would be legally required to consult Indigenous representatives on matters affecting them under an alternative to a Voice to Parliament pushed in the aftermath of the failed vote.
Dan Jervis-Bardy
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese once touted but ultimately failed Voice Referendum didn’t even get a mention in his 2023 end-of-year wrap video.
Caitlyn Rintoul
A national vote on constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that didn’t include the Voice to Parliament would likely have succeeded, a new study of voter attitudes reveals.
There was one question Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was desperate to avoid answering during the doomed Voice referendum campaign.
An extraordinary number of West Australians did not vote in the Indigenous Voice referendum and will now receive letters from the Australian Electoral Commission asking them to explain themselves or pay a fine.
Kimberley Caines
The City of Bayswater was the sole eastern suburbs local government that flew flags at half-mast following the Voice referendum.
Michael Palmer
The Shire of Harvey is set to debate whether to abolish the acknowledgement of country, with one councillor calling for the ‘tokenism’ to be scrapped.
Sean Van Der Wielen
Thousands of West Australians have signed a petition demanding the Cook Government ‘unequivocally’ rule out legislating a Voice to State Parliament after voters resoundingly voted No in the national referendum.
Jake Dietsch
WA Liberal senator Michaelia Cash has called for party unity ahead of the next Federal election, saying the successful campaign to defeat the Voice was a template for future success.
Joe Spagnolo
The Federal Government’s commitment to treaty and truth-telling is under fresh doubt amid revelations millions of dollars set aside for its promised Makaratta Commission are yet to be spent.
The Perth council declined to lower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags to half-mast despite a strong Yes vote in the community.
Peter Devlin
The Katanning Indigenous community has slammed O’Connor MP Rick Wilson for his part in the No campaign, accusing him of peddling “misinformation” and failing to act in their interests.
Harry Grigson
The Federal Government has no timeline for introducing new national Aboriginal cultural heritage laws as it treads carefully after the saga in WA.
The question remains how do we overcome Indigenous disadvantage?
Outside of the emotional response to the referendum result, there are hard-headed questions being asked from supporters about the miserable failure that was the Yes campaign.
The residents of the capital are so out of step with the rest of the country that their vote on the Voice was the opposite of the national ballot that so rejected Labor’s attempt to rewrite the Constitution.
Paul Murray
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