BBC Question Time 07/12/2023
with a studio audience in Petersfield

ALT Write Yes if you approve the proposed change. A proposed law: To alter the constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Do you approve this proposed alteration? Yes #VoteYesAustralia #Yes23 #VoiceToParliament #UluruStatement

ALT Massacres have left intergenerational effects on First Peoples families: Yet descendants merely ask for a Voice. Dispossessed of the land that sustained them: descendants merely invite a Voice for their wishes. Children stolen from their parents' arms: merely request the right to be heard. The Voice doesn't call for prosecution of descendants of wrong-doers, the restoration of stolen land, or even reparations for today's effect of past misdeeds. Rather, the invitation is one of the most gentle, respectful and generous calls for accountability for policy and legislation that has impacts on First Peoples. Surely the Voice cannot be too much to ask. Ken Coghill, Surrey Hills The Age, 16 August 2023






















