Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese gives update on Indigenous Voice and referendum wording

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dwC0xmBCKA&t=16s

 

Cartoons of the Week

 

Jon Kudelka

Peter Broelman

A reminder of why "Enshrining A First Nations Voice In The Australian Constitution" is important

 

Why is the Uluru Statement from the Heart and, what it asks of all Australia, so important?

It is a matter of historical record and of a continuous culture enduring from time immemorial on this continent down to the present day. A matter of connection with and care of Country — an understanding of responsibility towards and belonging to a place which has existed since long before the British-European notion of sovereignty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8sYLZk5QeM

KIMBERLEY ROCK ART: A World Treasure. 2020. Kimberley rock art is one the largest figurative bodies of art to survive anywhere on the planet.... and yet so little is known about it. The Kimberley Foundation Australia is about to change that. The Foundation is sponsoring a world-class team of scientists to date the rock art.

IMAGE: The Blackfulla Perspective (2018)
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The languages of Aboriginal Australia
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
(1994)
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In Australia today est. 812,000 people formally identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. This figure is believed to probably be an undercount of the Indigenous population, in part due to the voluntary nature of the question in the national census and the difficulty in census teams visiting some parts of the country due to the physical remoteness of some Aboriginal communities.

A national referendum is expected to take place sometime in the 2023-24 financial year asking all citizens registered to vote to express their view on including a new provision in the Australian Constitution which establishes a First Nations Voice. 

Enshrining a First Nations Voice in the Australian Constitution

https://youtu.be/5gF6DqYH6FE

"We, gathered at the 2017 National Constitutional Convention, coming from all points of the southern sky, make this statement from the heart": https://ulurustatemdev.wpengine.com/the-statement/view-the-statement/