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By Tom Peters, Socialist Equality Group Original url: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/28/ioue-a28.html The Australian Labor government will hold a referendum later this year on amending the constitution to create a new Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, a body .
The Australian Labor government and some representatives of the Indigenous elite have praised the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand as a model for Australia; the treaty, first signed in 1840 during the colonisation of New Zealand, has been used over the past 30 years to enrich a narrow layer of Māori while leaving the vast majority in poverty.
The NZ leader shocked the country and her Labour Party colleagues by unexpectedly announcing she would resign within weeks. Now the question is: who would be up to the job?