Indigenous Australians have met the release of the final wording of the proposed changes to the constitution and details of the Voice to parliament’s powers with both trepidation and excitement.
The respondents at the time overwhelmingly said they would vote Yes in a referendum on the Indigenous Voice proposal. This masthead went back to some of those surveyed to hear their thoughts on the finalised wording and Albanese’s emotional call for Australians to support it.
Peter Hood, a Kurnai man from Gippsland in eastern Victoria, said he saw the reworded proposed Voice amendment as a necessary step for legal clarity.“At the end of the day, the message is still the same,” he said. Cheryl Thomas, a Noongar-Ballardong and Wongutha woman from Midland in Western Austraia, said she’d only briefly heard news of the prime minister’s announcement on the radio.
Rodney Carter, a Dja Dja Wurrung man from central Victoria and Dja Dja Wurrung Group CEO, said Albanese’s announcement was pleasing, and he had faith the changes to the proposed constitutional amendment were appropriate.
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