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The Uluru Statement from the Heart called for Voice, treaty and truth. On October 14, Australians said “no” to the Voice to the Parliament, choosing not to enshrine an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander advisory body in the Constitution. Many Indigenous Australians are devastated, seeing the result as a dismissal…

It was always going to be a big ask for Australians to vote in favour of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

Indigenous campaigners who wanted Australia to create an advisory body representing its most disadvantaged ethnic minority say its rejection in a constitutional referendum was a “shameful act.”

The outcome was called "appalling and mean-spirited".

After the resentful dismissal of recognition by non-Indigenous Australia, no non-Indigenous person is in a position to lecture First Peoples about what they should have done differently.

Billionaire Australian Anthony Pratt is said to have paid former prime ministers Paul Keating and Tony Abbott $25,000 and $8,000 a month respectively for consulting, and then-Prince Charles $182,000 in 2021, and lobby group Advance Australia says Labor’s misinformation laws will be its next target after defeating the Voice.

Hunter must support saving Cessnock rail service.

In the broader arc of history, Australia has missed the chance to take forward the conversation on building a more harmonious future for all Australians

The data might say things are looking up, but Labor shouldn’t boast about that: voters’ perception is very, very different.