Opponents have manufactured different versions of the truth in an effort to disrupt, delay, subvert and confuse
and rarely got beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. They failed to repurpose old, enduring, notions of fairness and collective good in a contemporary way.
It is a faultline older than the nation. It grows from failing to meaningfully recognise the First Peoples of this continent and the humility that demands. For five years after the Uluru Statement from the Heart, a new consensus had slowly built. The astonishing achievement of the hard-won agreement embedded in the statement touched the hearts of those who had been paying attention, and over time their number grew. By mid-2022 the polls suggested nearlyAnd then in 2023 this new consensus began to crumble. For six months polls slid, the referendum was routinely described as “troubled”.
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