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Racist throwback to Jim Crow days in America
Burney says the advert that ran in the Financial Review encouraging a no" vote on the referendum over the Indigenous voice to parliament was totally unacceptable".
I think Matt Kean, the Shadow Health Minister in New South Wales, really nailed it, David, where he likened it to a racist throwback from the Jim Crow days in America, but it was also incredibly sexist and it is something in the words of Matt Kean, the nocamp has every right to have a say, but there are better ways of doing it.
I know Aboriginal Australia and I know that people know what the important issues - things like what I've identified - education, health, housing, jobs - and Josie Douglas who is this remarkable Aboriginal woman in the central land council put it perfectly: We are about changing lives, not changing dates.
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