voice - Alice Springs News https://alicespringsnews.com.au The freedom of the press still furnishes that check upon government which no constitution has ever been able to provide - Chicago Tribune. Sun, 17 Sep 2023 03:28:34 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 195104910 Understanding this No, voting Yes https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/09/14/understanding-this-no-voting-yes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=understanding-this-no-voting-yes https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/09/14/understanding-this-no-voting-yes/#comments Thu, 14 Sep 2023 02:01:21 +0000 https://alicespringsnews.com.au/?p=88218 By KIERAN FINNANE Two prominent Aboriginal men from the Centre, one speaking to a deeply felt No on the Voice, based on his utter distrust of government, the other speaking to a passionate Yes, based on his faith in the possibility of shaping, with other Australians, “a better nation”. Together, and with responses from other […]

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]]> https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/09/14/understanding-this-no-voting-yes/feed/ 14 88218 Voice campaigner cut her teeth in the Alice https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/08/30/voice-campaigner-cut-her-teeth-in-the-alice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=voice-campaigner-cut-her-teeth-in-the-alice https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/08/30/voice-campaigner-cut-her-teeth-in-the-alice/#comments Wed, 30 Aug 2023 07:41:43 +0000 https://alicespringsnews.com.au/?p=88194 By ERWIN CHLANDA On the day the Prime Minister has announced the date of the referendum, in Alice Springs it’s fitting to consider the thoughts of Professor Marcia Langton who honed her incisive activism in part when she lived in this town during the late seventies. Her inaugural NAIDOC Week keynote lecture at the University […]

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]]> https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/08/30/voice-campaigner-cut-her-teeth-in-the-alice/feed/ 16 88194 A Voice for everybody https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/08/24/a-voice-for-everybody/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-voice-for-everybody https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/08/24/a-voice-for-everybody/#comments Thu, 24 Aug 2023 04:35:08 +0000 https://alicespringsnews.com.au/?p=88168 COMMENT by ERWIN CHLANDA The debate about a Voice to Parliament for Aboriginal people is reaching its crescendo. This may be a good time for the rest of the population to join them on the barricades. Marion Scrymgour and Malarndirri McCarthy (at right) are representing the Northern Territory in the Canberra halls of power, in […]

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]]> https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/08/24/a-voice-for-everybody/feed/ 15 88168 A Voice for On Country and one for the city https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/08/16/88113/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=88113 https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/08/16/88113/#comments Wed, 16 Aug 2023 02:02:53 +0000 https://alicespringsnews.com.au/?p=88113 By HARRY CLARK There is barely an Indigenous murmur in The Centre about the Voice from the Heart. I spoke with 36 people in Alice Springs. Only five were aware of the intricacies of the referendum. All five were white tourists from Canberra or Sydney. The remaining 31 were all Indigenous. None of them had […]

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]]> https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/08/16/88113/feed/ 22 88113 Voice row is getting louder https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/07/03/voice-row-is-getting-louder/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=voice-row-is-getting-louder https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/07/03/voice-row-is-getting-louder/#comments Mon, 03 Jul 2023 04:46:55 +0000 https://alicespringsnews.com.au/?p=87872 COMMENT by CHARLIE CARTER Senator Price is trying to mislead us, by misrepresenting the nature and origin of the proposed Voice. This time in the form of a glossy leaflet in the letterbox. In the leaflet she alleges that it is the Prime Minister who has put forward the referendum question, but it comes directly […]

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]]> https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/07/03/voice-row-is-getting-louder/feed/ 11 87872 Voice ‘not based upon any overseas precedent’ https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/06/21/voice-not-based-upon-any-overseas-precedent/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=voice-not-based-upon-any-overseas-precedent https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/06/21/voice-not-based-upon-any-overseas-precedent/#comments Wed, 21 Jun 2023 03:41:56 +0000 https://alicespringsnews.com.au/?p=87800 By ERWIN CHLANDA Are there any democratic countries where the constitution requires the parliament and executive to listen to a race-defined minority while there is no such obligation with respect to the other part of the population? And if there are such countries, how do they manage their obligations? These are questions the News put […]

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]]> https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/06/21/voice-not-based-upon-any-overseas-precedent/feed/ 17 87800 Gap closing: Sisyphus had the same problem https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/06/17/gap-closing-sisyphus-had-the-same-problem/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gap-closing-sisyphus-had-the-same-problem https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/06/17/gap-closing-sisyphus-had-the-same-problem/#comments Fri, 16 Jun 2023 23:42:43 +0000 https://alicespringsnews.com.au/?p=87770 By ROD MOSS The Closing the Gap initiative, implemented in 2021, targets Indigenous disadvantage with regards to the birthweight of babies, general health, housing, pre-school enrolments, school readiness, out-of-home care, incarceration, suicides amongst them. The design and delivery of policies, programs and services hope to achieve greater efficacy through genuine collaboration between governments and Aboriginal […]

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]]> https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/06/17/gap-closing-sisyphus-had-the-same-problem/feed/ 2 87770 Voice to respect ‘my country’ rules https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/06/05/voice-to-respect-my-country-rules/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=voice-to-respect-my-country-rules https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/06/05/voice-to-respect-my-country-rules/#comments Mon, 05 Jun 2023 07:57:40 +0000 https://alicespringsnews.com.au/?p=87645 The Voice will respect the tradition prohibiting people speaking for other people’s country, according to Thomas Mayo, one of the leading figures in the Yes campaign for the referendum this year. He and fellow campaigner Kerry O’Brien, a former prominent ABC journalist, appeared on the weekend in two well attended sessions at the NT Writers […]

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]]> https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/06/05/voice-to-respect-my-country-rules/feed/ 14 87645 The Voice not an issue in the big bush https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/04/13/the-voice-not-an-issue-in-the-big-bush/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-voice-not-an-issue-in-the-big-bush https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/04/13/the-voice-not-an-issue-in-the-big-bush/#comments Thu, 13 Apr 2023 03:14:02 +0000 https://alicespringsnews.com.au/?p=87202 By ERWIN CHLANDA The Voice is not on the agenda of two of the three local governments in the Central Australian bush, and it is understood that this is also the case with the MacDonnell Regional Council. Its President, Roxanne Kenny, via a minder, and in response to a personal contact sent to her via […]

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]]> https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/04/13/the-voice-not-an-issue-in-the-big-bush/feed/ 7 87202 News readers are vocal as Opposition abstains from Voice vote https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/02/17/opposition-to-abstain-from-vote-on-voice-as-readers-are-vocal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=opposition-to-abstain-from-vote-on-voice-as-readers-are-vocal https://alicespringsnews.com.au/2023/02/17/opposition-to-abstain-from-vote-on-voice-as-readers-are-vocal/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2023 05:26:04 +0000 https://alicespringsnews.com.au/?p=86748 Dozens of Alice Springs News readers, in our readers’ comment columns, are canvassing diverging views about “Yes” or “No” in the referendum later this year. Many submissions are well-informed and detailed, some express anger and disappointment with the proposals. Our debate has been stared by prominent Territorian Ted Egan, 90 years old and for three […]

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