Commentary
In May, with the support of the opposition and the Greens, the Queensland Parliament adopted the Path to Treaty Act 2023.
Although Australian papers and opinion pages are saturated with stories about “The Voice” and First Nations’ claims to sovereignty, there has been little discussion of this potentially divisive Queensland legislation.
Unsurprisingly, the long-serving Labor premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, used her party’s majority to steamroll this legislation through Parliament. But what is surprising, even disturbing, is that the opposition would sheepishly support it, effectively championing Labor’s social engineering agenda.
The inability of the opposition to rely on the principle of political equality for all was on display on May 10….