New Greens senator Lidia Thorpe says Indigenous Australians need guaranteed seats in Parliament,not a tokenistic Voice,but a treaty must come first.
Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt says any Voice to government cannot be designed without the government's ultimate approval.
Aboriginal leader Pat Turner has dealt a blow to the government's process for designing a vehicle to advise it on Indigenous affairs.
Younger Indigenous activists and leaders are speaking up,and drawing a line between themselves and the old guard.
Historian and author Bruce Pascoe says there was slavery in Australia post-colonisation,and Scott Morrison saying otherwise is"an insult".
The COVID-19 crisis has shown the remarkable capacity of Australians to rally together. Now its time to apply it to national reconciliation.
There are two big reasons to be optimistic in National Reconciliation Week.
Scott Morrison handed down the 12th Closing the Gap report,and in admitting its failure said it had"never really been a partnership with Indigenous people".
Noel Pearson is among a group of prominent Australians who will help develop a model to ensure Indigenous Australians are heard at all levels of government.
If we hope to achieve a referendum on the “Voice”,dismissing this process will not achieve that goal.
A Liberal senator writes that all voices can now be heard to ensure Indigenous Australians have a say in the decisions that affect them.