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Voice to Parliament
Books & arts
Voices off
Tim Rowse
15 February 2024
What does the experience of the Ngaanyatjarra community tells us about the bipartisan promise of regional Voices?
National affairs
Gramsci’s message for Anthony Albanese
Frank Bongiorno
27 January 2024
How the government can build on what’s been a good month
National affairs
Hot country, frozen document
Graeme Orr
16 October 2023
Would voluntary voting on referendum proposals help thaw the Constitution?
National affairs
Indigenous policy’s inflection point
Michael Dillon
16 October 2023
What does the referendum result mean for First Nations policymaking?
National affairs
The unforgiving logic of Labor referendums
Peter Brent
16 October 2023
Despite the Yes campaign’s best efforts, Saturday’s vote followed the referendum playbook
National affairs
The weight of history
Peter Brent
13 October 2023
Different audiences will be watching for different messages during Saturday night’s referendum count
Essays & reportage
Yes or No, history won’t go away
Peter Mares
10 October 2023
Regardless of the outcome of the Voice referendum, Australia’s past will continue to unsettle the present
Essays & reportage
A steady path to sovereignty?
Tim Rowse
6 October 2023
The Voice debate has opened up the complexity of First Nations political thought
National affairs
Timing, and other referendum obstacles
Peter Brent
29 September 2023
History shows that the merits of the question are secondary considerations in any referendum vote
Essays & reportage
Self-determination works. The next step is the Voice
Laura Rademaker and Ian Anderson
29 September 2023
It’s time for the Constitution to recognise the benefits of empowering Indigenous communities
Books & arts
The collaborators
Andrew Ford
27 September 2023
How pianist Paul Grabowsky benefited from the generosity of the Wilfred brothers and other Indigenous musicians
Essays & reportage
Odyssey down under
Tom Griffiths
8 September 2023
A new kind of history is called for in the year of the Voice referendum. Here’s what it might look like.
National affairs
No diversion unticked
Peter Brent
31 August 2023
A more responsible party leader wouldn’t have joined in a ridiculous debate about ticks and crosses
Essays & reportage
The “end” of Labor’s honeymoon and the “collapse” of women’s support for the Voice
Murray Goot
25 July 2023
How Newspoll reports public opinion and how the
Australian
reports Newspoll
National affairs
Yes and No: the official (but curiously incomplete) cases
Tim Rowse
19 July 2023
Neither of the Voice to Parliament pamphlets rises to the occasion
Essays & reportage
“Undecided” on the Voice
Murray Goot
20 June 2023
Depending on the choices pollsters offer, the undecideds range all the way from none to two-thirds of respondents
National affairs
Losing ground?
Murray Goot
9 June 2023
Support for the Voice may not have dropped as much as the latest Newspoll suggests
National affairs
The referendum’s lines in the sand
Tim Rowse
19 May 2023
If the parliamentary committee is any guide, representation and risk have become the sharpest dividing lines in the Voice debate
Essays & reportage
From Indigenous recognition to the Voice, and back again
Murray Goot
15 May 2023
There are signs of a shift in strategy by the Yes forces, but are the polls keeping up?
National affairs
Peter Dutton’s no-payoff gamble
Peter Brent
18 April 2023
Neither result in the Voice referendum will benefit the opposition leader
National affairs
Albo room
Tim Rowse
27 March 2023
The debate over the revised wording of the Voice amendment misses a key point: this is a referendum like no other
Books & arts
Where No meets Yes
Tim Rowse
14 February 2023
Opponents of a constitutionally enshrined Voice warn of many of the features that most attract its proponents
National affairs
Peter Dutton’s questions
Tim Rowse
23 January 2023
Have critics overlooked what the opposition leader
didn’t
ask?
National affairs
Price and Pearson, uneasy allies?
Tim Rowse
23 December 2022
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Noel Pearson’s clash over the Voice masks a more complicated picture
National affairs
The Voice: not enough “meat on the bone”?
Tim Rowse
27 September 2022
Are fears of a repeat of the 1999 republic referendum influencing the campaign for an Indigenous Voice?
Books & arts
A Liberal’s case for the Voice to Parliament
Tim Rowse
9 July 2021
Andrew Bragg is on the right side of the debate, but the gaps in his argument are revealing
Essays & reportage
The 1967 referendum: inspiration or burden?
Tim Rowse
27 May 2021
The overwhelming Yes vote still grips our imagination
National affairs
Drawing history into the present
Harry Hobbs
16 March 2021
Victoria takes up the challenge of truth-telling
Essays & reportage
Is the Voice already being muted?
Tim Rowse
1 February 2021
As we enter stage two of the co-design process, the government seems already to be shaping the result
National affairs
The referendum conundrum
Peter Brent
20 August 2019
Attempts to change the Constitution often fail, but that doesn’t mean we should stop trying
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