Cape York Partnership’s Strategic Advisor Noel Pearson has called out the Liberal party for their “no” position on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, as Australia’s Indigenous recognition was “initially a conservative idea.”
He said the “best work” done for Indigenous communities in the Cape York Peninsula was with the support of former Prime Minister John Howard, who “started the recognition process” in 2007.
“They find themselves now in a position where the new Labor government has picked up the ball and they’ve run with it,” Mr Pearson told Sky News Australia. “Which of course, for advocates like me, we’re very happy about – but if the true history were known about the development of the Voice idea, this was initially a conservative idea.”
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