Voting Yes will be a national commitment to listening, dialogue and partnership, in contrast to the failed top-down approaches of the past.
History demonstrates why Indigenous communities need an advisory Voice in laws and policies made about them, and why more than 80 per cent of Indigenous Australians want a guaranteed say in their own affairs. When policymakers don’t listen, they make unfair and unproductive decisions. Listening to local Indigenous communities achieves better results.
Indigenous Australians are asking for a Voice because listening to Indigenous communities will mean the unfair policies of the past are less likely to be repeated, and contemporary policies will be more effective and deliver better bang for buck. Although Indigenous people won the right to vote in federal elections as late as 1962, voting still wasn’t compulsory for them – and, bizarrely, encouraging Indigenous adults to enrol was an offence – until 1984. In other words, I was four years old when equal electoral status was achieved in Australia. This is recent history.My parents worked and got paid fairly. Many Indigenous workers were paid unequal or non-existent wages for the same work, well into the 1970s.
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