| Summary: | As these words are being written in the morning of 30 August 2023, news reports indicate that later today Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will announce the date of the referendum on whether Australia should establish a First Nations Voice to Parliament in the Constitution. By the time you are reading this, the outcome of the referendum will be known. At this stage, one thing seems certain: the Voice referendum, whether it passes or fails, will be a notable historical event. It will join the 1967 referendum, the Yirrkala bark petitions, the National Apology, the Closing the Gap framework, and many others on the long and still evolving timeline of interactions between Australia and the First Nations Peoples who have called it home since time immemorial.
|
|---|