Your Say: Name supplied but withheld by request. As an Australian we have an amazing mixed heritage culture, and whether you’re First Nation, displaced convict or a more recent Australian there is one thing that resonates in all of us: we are one. The notion of allowing segregation to be written back into our constitution is a step backwards. Drawing a line in the sand between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the rest of us in parliament is apartheid at its finest. There was a comment recently in your paper about mining and the voice to parliament. Mining pays $390 million to the Aboriginal industry yearly, combined with the $40 billion from Federal Government. That is a fair amount of money for 3% of the population that is not trickling down to the grassroots people in desperate need. The people who are supposed to look after them and […]







