But without such an advisory body, following a failed referendum, it will be hard for Australia to listen moving ahead, too
At a 'Walk for Yes' rally on Sept. 17, crowds in Melbourne hold a placard in the red, black and yellow of the Australian Aboriginal flag. Weeks later, voters rejected a constitutional reform proposal to add an Indigenous advisory body to Parliament.In a short film released in 2017, the Indigenous activist and educator Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann offered a gift to the Australian people:describes a quality of listening in stillness, which fosters connection, wholeness and peace.
In the lead-up to last weekend’s referendum on the creation of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, it had begun to feel as though Australians had taken the lesson ofto heart. The Labor government, elected on the promise of change, took constitutional reform as a mandate, and the Voice sawAustralia looked to finally shed its status as the only former British colony to exclude Indigenous peoples from its constitution.
The referendum marked the second time that a proposal for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament was put to a sitting Australian government.
As the leader of the No campaign, Mr. Dutton argued that an Indigenous Voice to Parliament would be “divisive,” and that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was “obsessed” with a process that didn’t represent “what people are saying on the ground.” Mr. Dutton promised a second referendum on symbolic recognition if the Voice failed; after the vote, he walked this promise back.
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