If you’ve moved house recently as most australians have since this new government and accompanying housing crisis begun then you have to update your details, or at least just make sure that your registration matches what is written on your photo ID
If you’ve moved house recently as most australians have since this new government and accompanying housing crisis begun then you have to update your details, or at least just make sure that your registration matches what is written on your photo ID
It’s very clear at this point that Albanese has put stakes on the table that his government was utterly unprepared to fight for.
Albanese was in parliament for the peak of the History Wars period, the 1999 referendum, and the dissolution of ATSIC. He can not reasonably claim he was unaware of what the opposition to this would look like and how it would behave, and yet none of it was preempted.
Unless there is something truly remarkable waiting in the wings I fear signing these writs effectively sees serious steps toward reconciliation pushed back another generation.
They could have avoided a chunk of this by passing Zali stegalls bill on truth in advertising, but I guess abandoning your cornerstone policy on reconciliation is a small price to pay for being able to lie at the next election.
It does raise big questions when you don’t want to enforce honesty
I think of it less as a question and more of an admission
The government at the very least should have put funding in place to support Indigenous Australians throughout this campaign. For Royal Commissions there will often be grants awarded to mental health / trauma services in order to support people through telling their stories. I think the same consideration should have taken with this campaign because it has become so predictably vile and unhinged. I imagine it’s a lot for Indigenous Australians to have to process, regardless of how they’re voting.