Greater than 5 million Australians voted for the Voice. The No consequence induced deep grief, however now we should wipe our tears and construct the trail to justice.
Greater than 5 million Australians supported an Indigenous Voice to Parliament within the referendum vote — a imaginative and prescient that developed from years of affected person neighborhood dialog and consensus-building. As many people navigate the grief after the consequence, there are seeds of hope rising.
For these of us who’ve spent our working lives within the social, well being and repair sectors, the Voice represented rather more than a symbolic gesture. A constitutionally enshrined Voice to Parliament was a possibility to reboot a long time of decision-making constructions.
Most Australians may agree the “rinse and repeat” of paternalistic policymaking has finally didn’t meaningfully empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, nor considerably enhance lives. It was, and nonetheless is, time for a elementary shift.
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