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I read with interest the recent statement by the Solicitor-General for Western Australia, Joshua Thomson SC, that arguments for meritocracy were “flawed”.
Four key factors explain the steady gains for the No side in the contest between a positive but woolly message for the Voice and the sharp and negative warnings against change.
She failed to support the Coalition policy of local and regional Voices in a provocative speech met with cheers by her frontbench colleagues.
Liddle responds to Johns’ claim that some people in Indigenous communities live in a ‘stupor’, and calls for greater respect in voice referendum debate
Assimilation is the only path to relieving the plight of a minority segment of the Aboriginal population. That’s not a cruel solution. The history of the modern Western world is full of assimilations. A genuinely cruel solution, implemented always with the best of intentions, is keeping people largely ignorant of the English language in circumstances and locations which foil their potential