Nationals’ stance on Indigenous voice a ‘slap in the face to black people’, Aboriginal leader says

Laura Hand-Ross says party's opposition to constitutional recognition is an insult' that has caused disquiet in the community

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The National party's decision to oppose to an Indigenous voice to parliament has been condemned by a prominent Deniliquin Aboriginal leader as a slap in the face to black people".

Laura Hand-Ross, a Wamba Wamba and Muthi Muthi woman and the chair of the Deniliquin Local Aboriginal Land Council, said the Nationals' stance was an insult and had caused disquiet in the local community.