A school girl's question forced two prominent Indigenous leaders at the forefront of the Voice to Parliament debate to go head-to-head on Monday night.
“And so when the First Nations people ask us and invite Australians to do something that they think is at least some of the answer to a lot of the dispossession and the tyranny of question, they can do it.” A school girl’s question forced two prominent Indigenous leaders at the forefront of the Voice to Parliament debate to go head-to-head on Monday night. A school girl’s question sparked heated debate over the Voice to Parliament referendum, after the Prime Minister was forced to defend the question facing voters.
On the panel were Country Liberal Senator Jacinta Yangapi Nampijinpa Price and Labor Senator Malarndirri McCarthy who together hold the Northern Territory's ...
A simple question from a teenager on ABC's Q&A led to a fiery TV debate between two Senators about the upcoming Voice referendum. Eli Green. 2 min read.
“And so when the First Nations people ask us and invite Australians to do something that they think is at least some of the answer to a lot of the dispossession and the tyranny of question, they can do it.” “In every change of government there has been a change of policy around Aboriginal peoples lives and as a result, their lives have been turned upside down and they’ve had to start again with a new leader or a new government and then again, and again,” she said on the program. First off the bat to answer the young girl’s question was Assistant Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy, who said the Voice was Indigenous people asking for “their voice to never be cut off”.