Indigenous advocate Noel Pearson says a rejection of the Voice to Parliament would represent a failure of a whole generation of Indigenous leadership, saying it would then be up to a new generation to chart a different way forward.
Noel Pearson says the Voice to Parliament was designed to engage with Indigenous communities "at ground zero"Mr Pearson says he is "appalled" by Tony Abbott's opposition to the Voice
"I don't think we have anything left after that. It'll be up to a new generation to chart a new course because we will have been rejected." "It's got to happen in my hometown, it's got to happen in the communities of Cape York, it's got to happen in Alice Springs, it's got to happen in Yuendumu," he said.Voice was developed under Coalition watch
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