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Indigenous leader Noel Pearson continues push for constitutional recognition and Voice to Parliament
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Noel Pearson says as long as the nation s Indigenous peoples remain unrecognised, Australia is an absurdity .
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Indigenous leader Noel Pearson says Australia is incomplete without constitutional recognition of First Nations people, as leaders renew calls for a referendum on a Voice to Parliament.
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Noel Pearson is urging the federal government to not give up on the push for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament
He criticised political leaders for delaying holding a referendum on constitutional recognition for First Nations people
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Commercial Radio was the ‘gold rush’ of the late 1980s, and everyone and anyone wanted a piece of the action. There were rock stars, impresarios, lawyers, sportsmen, public relations gurus, stockbrokers and socialites, all prospecting for a licence to print money.
These licences, awarded by the Independent Radio & Television Commission (IRTC), were cheap and they held the promise of easy money for the influential, the fortune and the favoured. The reality turned out to be a little different. The road to radio riches was eventually littered with casualties, but only after the initial euphoria had worn off.
The way it worked was that the ‘movers and shakers’ formed themselves into competing groups, appeared before hearings in the National Concert Hall in Dublin and eventually the licences were doled out. If you weren’t involved you weren’t really a player in the Dublin financial/entertainment scene of the time.
Anyone with a functioning brain wants to see genuine reconciliation in this country.
As I reflect nearly two weeks on from Australia Day, a day which really should be a time to come together to celebrate who we are, has now become almost controversial.
It’s now almost controversial to have citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day, even to say, “Happy Australia Day”.
I almost felt conflicted organising an Australia Day event on January 26th.
The ABC called January 26th, Australia Day/Invasion day
Cricket Australia no longer referred to any Big Bash matches on January 26th as ‘Australia Day’.
So where has this come from?