Many claim Australia’s longest-running Indigenous body failed. Here’s why that’s wrong
- Written by Alison Holland, Associate Professor, Macquarie University
The Voice to parliament, if established, would not be the first Indigenous advisory body in Australia’s history.
In 1973, Gough Whitlam established the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee, which was superseded by Malcolm Fraser’s National Aboriginal Conference in 1978. Both were elected bodies that were advisory only, and there...
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