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What would the first Aboriginal parliamentarian have thought of the voice to parliament? None of us can ever know – not even George Brandis
The first Aboriginal person in federal parliament, the Liberal senator Neville Bonner, would have “hated the idea” of a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous voice to parliament.
We know that because voice opponent George Brandis – former Liberal attorney general, once high commissioner to London, now professor at the Australian National University – has told us so in a recent didactic, partisan article where he also takes opportunity to gratuitously compare the Liberal record on Indigenous advancement with Labor’s.
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