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Federal Nationals MP Andrew Gee will quit the party to serve as an independent after the junior coalition partner opposed the Indigenous voice to parliament.

Mostly, almost entirely, it is not British actor Naomi Ackie’s singing voice you hear as Whitney Houston in the smooth, enjoyable new biopic “Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody.”

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As Australia prepares for the Voice referendum, Professor Megan Davis looks back at the words Paul Keating spoke 30 years ago today at Sydney's Redfern Park.

Despite complaints from some camps that there is not enough detail on how a Voice to Parliament could work, two reports have already spelled out how it could be done. Here's what they say.

Anthony Albanese heads towards Christmas with inflation, interest rates and power prices all high. But, comfortingly for Labor, his own popularity is up there too.

Last week, the Albanese government took another important step towards the referendum on a Voice to Parliament. It introduced a bill to make changes to our referendum process, including new arrangements for public education and campaign finance.

The Australian people will soon be asked to vote in a referendum to constitutionally recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through a First Nations Voice. Unfortunately, the political debate on this question has become mired in arguments over “detail” that are either ignorant or deceitful about the nature of…

As historian McKenna noted in From the Edge: "No matter how much our present-day sensibilities might wish to 'move on' from histories of violence and oppression, it remains a perpetual obligation to remember the way in which the land was conquered".