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Voice backers sign off on ‘simple, hopeful’ message for referendum pamphlet

Yes and no camps have been writing their competing essays, to be published by AEC on Tuesday

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Labor accused of reintroducing cashless debit cards

Changes to income management schemes have been described as bringing back the cashless debit card under a new name.

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Over to you, Australia: Indigenous campaigners hope voice debate is now respectful, not racist

Politicians have passed legislation enabling the referendum, likely in October. Now it’s up to the general public to make history

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Families speak at Perth inquiry hearings into missing, murdered First Nations women and children

Relatives relive the trauma of losing their loved ones as they share their stories at a public hearing for an inquiry into missing and murdered First Nations women and children. Warning: This story contains images and names of Indigenous people who have died.

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Families of missing and murdered Indigenous women tell inquiry police have failed them

Senate inquiry hears from First Nations families who have lost loved ones, including young children, in ‘horrific’ ways

The Guardian - AU

Indigenous Voice to Parliament deal prevails against partisan trend

There was a rare moment of bipartisanship in Canberra on Wednesday as the major parties came together to pass a law clearing the way to hold this year's

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Thousands of Australians will not be able to vote in Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum

Thousands of people — including a significant number of First Nations Australians — will be prevented from voting on the referendum to establish an Indigenous Voice to Parliament if amendments to the referendum machinery bill are voted down in the Senate.

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‘No room for mediocrity’ in voice referendum wording, working group member says

Advisory group agrees the voice should advise both executive government and parliament

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Yes campaign launch in WA hears anger over Indigenous incarceration and child removal

Hundreds packed a forum on the voice to parliament in Perth to hear speakers including new Greens First Nations spokesperson Dorinda Cox

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‘Re-election vanity project’: Sussan Ley derides Anthony Albanese’s voice referendum campaign

Deputy Liberal leader claims PM ‘would rather see the Liberal party say no and this referendum fail’ than a yes vote prevail

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Woodside office defaced in protest over alleged destruction of First Nations rock art – as it happened

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Greens appoint Dorinda Cox as First Nations spokesperson to replace Lidia Thorpe

First female Indigenous senator from WA says she and her predecessor are ‘very different politicians’

The Guardian - AU

Greens First Nations advisory group told party it could not say no to voice

Exclusive: advice was taken despite Lidia Thorpe’s objections but Adam Bandt says he still believes a treaty should come first

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Donna Nelson's family say she was duped or forced into carrying drugs into Japan amid romance scam

The distraught daughters of WA grandmother Donna Nelson, a prominent member of WA's Aboriginal community, believe she has been duped or forced into carrying drugs into Japan, and say she does not deserve what she is going through.

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Family pay emotional tribute to pregnant woman Diane Miller who died after Karawara car park assault

The family of a pregnant Perth mother who died after an allegedly unprovoked attack in a shopping centre car park remember the 30-year-old as funny, happy, and full of "wicked attitude". WARNING: This story contains the image and name of an Indigenous person who has died.

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Victorian gas project under threat

A Victorian gas project touted as a solution to energy shortfalls in the east coast market, could have a public loan blocked, under a push by the Greens.

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Greens threaten to withhold Senate support over $1.5 billion Darwin industrial hub budget commitment

Labor confirms the $1.5 billion for the project will be in its budget, but the Greens say they could withhold Senate support if it's not dropped.

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Greens senator Lidia Thorpe admits to undisclosed relationship with ex-Rebels president Dean Martin while on law enforcement committee

Staffers to Greens senator Lidia Thorpe were concerned her undisclosed relationship with a former outlaw motorcycle gang president while she served on parliament's law enforcement committee posed a perceived conflict of interest.

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Diggers and Dealers organisers distance event from alleged groping of Kalgoorlie journalist

The company at the centre of an alleged sexual assault has distanced itself from a Goldfields mining event that saw 23-year-old journalist Amber Lilley allegedly groped.

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Probe for murdered Indigenous Australians

Lidia Thorpe wants an inquiry into murdered and missing First Nations women and children to allow Indigenous people to provide evidence in traditionalist ways.

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‘Horrific’ First Nations missing and murdered cases to be focus of Australia-wide inquiry

A Senate inquiry will examine the ‘mounting’ rates of missing and murdered Indigenous women and children

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Outrage as WA youths moved to adult jail

Greens senator Dorinda Cox is among those criticising the West Australian government over its plans to shift a group of 20 youth detainees to an adult prison.

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Fatima Payman claims sixth WA Senate seat for Labor as Michaelia Cash reinstated

Fatima Payman will become the first Muslim woman who wears a hijab to sit in Australia’s Parliament after claiming WA's sixth senate seat.

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Vote Compass data finds most Australians support Indigenous Voice to Parliament — and it has grown since the last election

Vote Compass asked whether Australia should amend its constitution to establish a representative body to advise Parliament on laws and policies affecting Indigenous peoples — and there was clear support for the idea.

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Senators allege they were ‘treated with contempt’ when police called to remove them from WA prison

Dorinda Cox and Lidia Thorpe were visiting Hakea prison to discuss a death in custody when they claim meeting with superintendent was suddenly cancelled

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