The Constitutional Alteration Bill has passed the Senate with rapturous applause, setting up the Voice to parliament referendum.
Turning to news about the Hunter Valley bus crash, the senior president of the Singleton Roosters said members will be leaning on each other for support a week after several of their teammates were killed in the tragedy.
The bus crash claimed 10 lives in the late hours of June 11 when leaving the wedding of local couple Maddy Edsell and Mitchell Gaffney, many of whom were members of the Singleton Roosters. “We will lean on each other through this incredible and difficult time with the memory of everyone that has been lost at the forefront of our thoughts.”
“They want this to happen. They’re reaching out to all Australians, to be able to feel proud of this time in our country’s history where we can lift one another up. Where First Nations people can be and feel very much a part of the complete fabric.”Coalition senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, another opponent of the Voice, says the proposal is “exploitative” and “emotionally manipulative”.
“This is a dangerous and costly proposal. It is legally risky and full of unknowns. It is exploitative. It is emotionally manipulative.”Earlier, independent senator Lidia Thorpe interjected during her former Greens colleague Dorinda Cox’s speech. Cox called for action from residents of remote communities “to decision-makers in this place, and we must stand together in solidarity”.
Other figures present for the historic Senate debate include Indigenous academic Marcia Langton, Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen, NT Labor MP Marion Scrymgour and Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce.Paul Sakkal
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