The most startling point on the referendum for a voice to parliament is the fact the majority of people in this country have no idea of history. And I mean Black and white people.
Australian history, as written for nearly two-thirds of the 20th century, glorified discoverers, explorers, settlers, and Gallipoli. We, as Aboriginal people, had been conveniently erased from the historical landscape and memory. Most Australians gave Aboriginal people little or no consideration. The majority of Aboriginal people were trapped in a historical vacuum through the fact that great numbers of our people had been confined to heavily congested and controlled missions and reserves.
