Opposition Leader Peter Dutton today stepped up to the microphone in the House of Representatives to apologise for boycotting the apology to the Stolen Generations back in 2008. Read his full apology here:
The Coalition has stepped up calls for the Albanese government to establish and equally fund formal Yes and No campaigns for the Voice referendum, saying it will not support laws to change the mechanics of the referendum process unless this occurs.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has repeatedly ruled out public funding for the Yes and No campaigns, and has instead committed to funding a civics education campaign. In a dissenting report, the Coalition said the “existence of official Yes and No campaign entities would reduce the inevitable cluster of faux and or proxy organisations promoting themselves as official campaign bodies”.
$117 million in Commonwealth contributions to a new one-year partnership with the Northern Territory government to accelerate the building of new remote housing; Teal MPs Zoe Daniel, left, Zali Steggall, second from right, and Kate Chaney, right, with former prime minister Kevin Rudd and his wife Therese.They are engaged in a friendly competition to secure the highest proportion of votes for the Voice in their electorates, all of which were held by inner-city Liberals before the last election.
Dutton told MPs in a private party room meeting last week that there was no rush to reach a decision, according to MPs present, making it likely an announcement would not be made until March at the earliest.Indigenous Australians minister Linda Burney is addressing the House of Representatives and thanked Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney waves to people in the gallery ahead of the Prime Minister’s address.
The judgement that I formed was that if we were to make an apology, it needed to be at a time when we had addressed and we had curbed that violence and those incidents. I failed to grasp at the time the symbolic significance to the Stolen Generation of the apology. It was right for prime minister Rudd to make the apology in 2008.
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