U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has met with Australia’s Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney discussing the road to reconciliation for Australia’s Aboriginal communities.
Haaland, an Indigenous woman from the southwest United States, visited Canberra at the end of a weeklong trip to Australia.
At a joint press conference with Haaland at Parliament House, Burney said, “the eyes of the world are on Australia as we approach a referendum on constitutional recognition through a voice later this year.”
The centre-left Albanese Labor government is proposing to hold a referendum sometime this year on whether to insert an Indigenous Voice to Parliament that would involve inserting a clause into the Constitution that would set up an almost-permanent Indigenous advisory body to the two houses of Parliament….