race has no place

“The decision by the Nationals to oppose the Voice to Parliament in the foreshadowed referendum demonstrates leadership at a time when Canberra and inner-city elites have never been more enthusiastic about dividing Australians by race,” said Morgan Begg, Director of the Legal Rights Program at the Institute of Public Affairs. The egalitarian spirit which drove Australians to vote in 1967

“An indigenous-only voice to parliament will do nothing but permanently divide Australians by race,” said Daniel Wild, Deputy Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs. This week, the Institute of Public Affairs sent to all Federal MPs a new research video about the social consequences of an indigenous-only voice to parliament. “It is incumbent on Federal MPs to oppose

“A growing majority of Australians share the egalitarian belief, fundamental to the Australian way of life, that we are all equal and that race has no place in our constitution,” said Morgan Begg, the Director of the Legal Rights Program at the Institute of Public Affairs. A poll undertaken in July, by marketing research firm Dynata, asked Australians to agree

Indigenous Australians are Australians Voice. Treaty. Truth. These are the words used to describe the Australian Labor Party’s (ALP) main policy for Indigenous Australians. Now that the ALP has claimed power in Canberra after nine years in opposition, it is time to consider what these words mean genuinely. The Labor party policy platform notes a constitutionally enshrined Voice to Parliament is

“Holding a referendum on an Indigenous voice to parliament on the anniversary of the 1967 referendum is a backwards and retrograde step which will destroy the progress to racial equality started in 1967 and divide Australians by race forever,” said Morgan Begg, Director of the Legal Rights Program at the Institute of Public Affairs. It was reported today that a

Advocates for an Indigenous Voice to parliament see the proposal for a legislated option merely as a stepping stone to radical constitutional change rather than the compromise some conservatives think it could be.   The National Indigenous Australian Agency (NIAA) has now released to the public its interim report outlining a proposal of an Indigenous Voice to parliament. The interim report, produced as part of a co-design process launched by the federal

The federal government released on Saturday the interim report on an Indigenous Voice, through its co-design process for what an Indigenous Voice would look like and how it might operate. IPA Director of Research Daniel Wild said of the announcement: “The shared decision making model is undemocratic, illiberal, and shows that the Voice will have more than merely an advisory

This week’s decision in the High Court to invent a new category of personhood for people on the basis of their race is a devastating blow to the movement for the constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians. On Tuesday the High Court handed down a decision in relation to how non-citizens who identified as Aboriginal would be treated under the Constitution,

Several prominent Australians have spoken out against the proposal for an indigenous voice to parliament, in a new video by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Senator James McGrath, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Dr Anthony Dillon, and Lorraine Finlay warned against a constitutional amendment that would divide Australians by race. “I’m a Queensland senator. I don’t want indigenous

Proponents of an indigenous voice to parliament make two key claims: it would be confined only to areas affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, and it would not become a third chamber of parliament. Both claims understate how far-reaching such a body is likely to become. In an opinion piece in these pages on July 26 (“Cleanest way to establish