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SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia's Senate passed legislation on Monday that paves the way for the country to hold a landmark referendum later this year on whether to recognise its Indigenous people in the constitution. In a final vote in the upper house of parliament, 52 voted in favour of the bill while 19 voted against, allowing the bill to be passed with an absolute majority. The referendum will ask Australians whether they support altering the constitution to include "Voice to Parliament", a committee that can advise the parliament on matters affecting its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people.
so in the years after tiananmen square, but let s say until about ten years ago, there was a relative opening up of some areas such as journalism and free speech on areas such as constitution, constitutional change and democracy. china was still an authoritarian communist state, but there was more space to talk broadly about some of these political issues in the last six to seven years. most of that space in public, at any rate, has disappeared. and it s not really possible to talk about anything that the communist party that rules china would see as undermining its own rule. professor rana mitter there. around the world and across the uk this is bbc news.
you re live with bbc news. the leader of hong kong s opposition party has been detained by police in hong kong on the 34th anniversary of the tiananmen square crackdown. she was holding a candle and two flowers in the causeway bay shopping district, when authorities surrounded her and forced her into a police van. a number of other arrests were also made, including the prominent democracy activist alexandra wong who is also known as grandma wong . rana mitter, professor of the history and politics of modern china at oxford university, explains the parallels between present day and the time of tiananmen square on the 4th ofjune, 1989. today, china has been in a crackdown situation, certainly for the last 5 to six years or so in terms of civil society, free speech and so forth. it is worth noting that during the 90s, so in the years after tiananmen square, but let s say until about ten years ago, there was a relative opening up of some areas such as journalism and free speech on areas
on the 4th ofjune, 1989. today, china has been in a crackdown situation certainly for the last 5 to six years or so in terms of civil society, free speech and so forth. it is worth noting that during the 90s, so in the years after tiananmen square, but let s say until about ten years ago, there was a relative opening up of some areas such as journalism and free speech on areas such as constitution, constitutional change and democracy. china was still an authoritarian communist state, but there was more space to talk broadly about some of these political issues in the last six to seven years. most of that space in public, at any rate, has disappeared. and it s not really possible to talk about anything that the communist party that rules china would see as undermining its own rule.