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After 2023 Voice Disappointment, Is There Hope for Treaty in Australia?

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After 2023 Voice Disappointment, Is There Hope for Treaty in Australia?

The Voice referendum in Australia proposed a modest reform, one that would have given Indigenous Australians — the oldest continuous living people in the world – an independent voice to Parliament, as well as constitutional recognition.  When it failed on October 14, in the words of Dr. Hannah McGlade, it confirmed that Australia remained a … Read more

In Victoria, First Peoples’ Assembly Moves Toward Treaty

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In Victoria, First Peoples’ Assembly Moves Toward Treaty

Advertisement The “Massachusetts of Australia” is how former Australian Prime Minister John Howard once described the state of Victoria. His comment, a criticism mired deeply in his unwavering commitment to the increasingly conservative Liberal Party, was aimed at a state that has had a center-left Labor government for all but four years of the 21st … Read more