8/17/2023 0 Comments Arts and letters daily rssStop the grubbiness Having spent the past week listening to the opposition leader and his associates squabbling over who knew what, when and how – please put it in perspective. That’s why we need to listen to their voices, so that Australia can lift these indicators to those of the general population. But no other group in Australia has such inequitable readings on indicators of health, education and housing. Raising hope Your correspondent (Letters, 16/6) is voting against the Voice because he sees it as undemocratic in giving one group a special voice that everyone else does not have. I hope that even those who feel that the Voice would be unfair or is simply a political opportunity can put doubts aside, accept the invitation, and vote Yes. The statement invites all to walk towards a better future. It comes from the Uluru Statement from the Heart, a document created by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The Voice was not introduced by Anthony Albanese or anyone else in the Canberra elite. While the Voice to parliament would help to address this wrong by giving First Nations Australians a say in legislation that directly affects them, the extent of disadvantage is such that it would only be a step towards equality, so could not possibly make them ″more equal″, as Opposition Leader Peter Dutton claims. For too long, First Nations people have experienced poorer outcomes in every aspect of life, perpetuated by government decisions made without adequate consultation or understanding. The Voice would not provide First Nations Australians with more of a voice than others because they do not have an equal voice to begin with. Yes is the answer I am saddened to read letters outlining a decision to vote No in the referendum that is based on misunderstandings of the purpose and origins of the Voice. Our sharply divided education system, unusual in the Western world, brings into focus social-class issues and poverty in Australia. Nonetheless, the students attending Catholic parish schools and regional colleges for whom National Catholic Education Commission executive director Jacinta Collins speaks have much more in common with children in state schools than with those at the quoted example of Xavier College where fees of $30,000 a year place it in the educational stratosphere of the elite independents that can afford payroll tax. It is safe to say that families whose children attend government schools are far more likely to be the clients of charities like Foodbank than those linked to private schools. Just when we desperately need accurate and insightful political reporting and analysis, the ABC management decide to make their political editor redundant.Ī divided system The juxtaposition of the articles ″Charities tackling hunger can’t keep up″ and ″Stop stereotyping private schools″ (15/6) grabbed my attention.
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