The first Aboriginal person in federal parliament, the Liberal senator Neville Bonner, would have “hated the idea” of a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous voice to parliament.
We know that because voice opponent George Brandis – former Liberal attorney general, once high commissioner to London, now professor at the Australian National University – has told us so in a recent didactic, partisan article where he also takes opportunity to gratuitously compare the Liberal record on Indigenous advancement with Labor’s.
