Every sports organisation in Australia has announced they will support the yes vote in the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum. It comes despite warnings from Indigenous leaders that the legislation, which proposed to insert a clause into the Constitution, would divide Australians based on race instead of promoting inclusivity or unity. In an open letter…

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is backing the contentious Indigenous Voice to Parliament to change Australia’s Constitution to better reflect Aboriginal interests. Pfizer is the latest corporate entity to throw its support behind the proposal that will set up an almost-parallel layer of government exclusively for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Anne Harris, managing director of Pfizer…

Australian billionaire and leader of the United Australia Party Clive Palmer has revealed he is open to being part of the No movement against the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. The mining magnate, whose net worth was estimated to be over A$13 billion in 2021, has said he will talk to Indigenous leaders and politicians before…

Australian mining magnate Clive Palmer has revealed he is open to being part of the “No” movement against the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. The mining magnate, whose net worth was estimated to be over $13 billion (US$8.6 billion) in 2021, has said he will talk to Indigenous leaders and politicians before deciding whether he would…

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has stood by an interview it conducted with Indigenous leader Noel Pearson following the federal opposition’s decision not to back the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. On April 5, opposition leader Peter Dutton announced that MPs of the centre-right Liberal Party voted “overwhelmingly” to not to support The Voice. Sometime this…

Passing the Indigenous Voice to Parliament is about fixing the discrimination of the past and a “moral question” of who Australia is as a country and what the people want it to be in the future, says constitutional law expert Shireen Morris from Macquarie University. “A Voice isn’t about erasing Indigenous diversity, it’s about empowering…

Avoiding an incident like the Jan. 6 Capitol riots in Australia is one reason why voters should support a major alteration to the country’s Constitution, says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. In his latest bid to win over the public for The Voice to Parliament proposal, the prime minister claimed such a “sensible” change would protect…

An official “No” campaign has been launched by Indigenous leaders Warren Mundine and Jacinta Price against a proposed change to the Australian Constitution. “Recognise A Better Way” calls for broader recognition of Australian Aboriginal communities but does not involve enshrining an almost permanent advisory body to Parliament, which is what the Voice to Parliament proposes….

Commentary In November, I was a conference panellist on the topic of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament. Chris Kenny, a host on Sky News Australia, was moderating a panel of Anthony Dillon, Hannah Hollis, Dean Parkin, and myself. The whole conference was a great event, and we also had a great…

Indigenous leader Warren Mundine has criticised Australia’s business community for throwing support behind changing the country’s Constitution to enshrine an “Indigenous Voice to Parliament.” Mundine also said he spoke with many business leaders who admitted they had little understanding of the impact of the “Voice.” “What’s happening in the background is in the business community;…