In a warning to Australians set to vote on altering their Constitution, New Zealander Casey Costello says her country’s own Indigenous “Voice to Parliament” has not had the desired effect and has become a burden on its democracy.
Costello, part-Maori and Anglo-Irish, is the founding trustee of the Hobson’s Pledge, said the Waitangi Tribunal, established in 1975 to give Maoris a greater voice in Parliament, has been unsuccessful.
“[Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese should be able] to say ‘Look, there are no Maori unemployed anymore’ or ‘Maori have the best education outcomes of the country’ or something that you could point to to say this has been a successful model, and there isn’t any,” she told The Epoch Times….