This comes after a referendum roundly rejected Indigenous recognition and enhanced rights.
Former prime minister Tony Abbott praised Australians for voting against amending the 1901 constitution.
Abbott praised Australians for resisting “virtue signalling” when they voted on Oct 14 by a margin of 61% to 39% against amending the 1901 constitution to recognise Indigenous peoples. “If the people’s vote is to be respected, it should mean abandoning, or at least scaling back, recent concessions to separatism,” Abbott wrote in The Australian, alluding to symbols of Indigenous ancestry on the continent stretching back 60,000 years.The flag – a rectangle with a black top half, a red bottom half and a yellow circle in the centre – represents Aboriginal Australians and has been an official flag of Australia since 1995.
He described as a “watershed moment” Price’s insistence that colonisation had been good for Aboriginal people because it brought advances such as running water, opportunities and “readily available food”.
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