After the rejection of the voice, the conversation about structural reform of the federal arrangements governing Aboriginal affairs must resume
The Uluru statement from the heart was our prayer to the Australian people.
There was hope in its words.
Proportionately, we are the most incarcerated people on the planet. We are not an innately criminal people. Our children are aliened from their families at unprecedented rates. This cannot be because we have no love for them. And our youth languish in detention in obscene numbers. They should be our hope for the future.