A longtime supporter of the Voice to Parliament has repudiated a letter from pro-Voice Indigenous leaders that slammed the referendum outcome.
Indigenous leaders involved in the Yes campaign released an open letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese over the weekend, ending a week of silence since Australians overwhelmingly voted No in the Voice referendum.
Responding to the letter in The Australian, Professor Greg Craven – the co-Founder of pro-Voice organisation Uphold and Recognise – said that the “grief and anger” from Indigenous leaders was to be expected, but that there was “no future in this rhetoric”. An earlier leaked draft of the document also claimed “the majority of Australians have committed a shameful act whether knowingly or not, and there is nothing positive to be interpreted from it.”
“The refrain is familiar from the dying weeks of the referendum. It was ‘the media’. It was lies. It was ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’. It was nasty right-wing think tanks. It was conservative and international interests. This is something he claimed Indigenous leaders knew but didn’t care about because “they stated confidently that the referendum was so obvious it did not need bipartisanship”.
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