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Explainer: what is executive government and what does it have to do with the Voice to Parliament?

In the upcoming Voice referendum, all Australian voters must decide whether to approve the proposed law to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through the mechanism of a Voice to Parliament and the executive government of the Commonwealth.

The Conversation

Indigenous voice to parliament no campaign leading in every state, poll analysis shows

Support for voice has dropped by 21 percentage points nationally in the past year, according to Guardian Australia’s poll tracker

The Guardian - AU

Chris Minns open to funding investigation into possible secret graves at Kinchela Aboriginal boys’ home

Labor vows to take further action if potential burial sites at other stolen generations-era institutions are uncovered

The Guardian - AU

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Bravus, formerly Adani, accused of attempting to block traditional owner from sacred site near Carmichael mine

Queensland police investigating complaint from Wangan and Jagalingou man Adrian Burragubba

The Guardian - AU

Second academic quits Queensland police First Nations advisory panel, saying force doesn’t want to change

Exclusive: Marlene Longbottom says police are ‘comfortable with the status quo’ and unwilling to confront real problems in the ranks

The Guardian - AU

Voice can close economic gap for Indigenous Australians, says Julian Leeser

Former Liberal frontbencher supports referendum as a way of getting First Nations people ‘to the same starting line’ as other Australians

The Guardian - AU

‘Hi it’s Jacinta Price’: Liberal anti-voice mass text campaign branded ‘deceptive’ by teals

Australian Electoral Commission says texts purporting to be from no campaign leader are legal, but MPs say they are ‘predatory’

The Guardian - AU

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Afternoon Update: Dutton accused of spreading falsehood about yes advocate; calls for fresh Qantas board; and a wine flood in Portugal

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The Guardian - AU

The Liberals have a Morrison problem — and so does Australia

When Morrison lost the 2022 election, it seemed inevitable he would quit Parliament before too long. Yet still he remains…

Crikey

Corporate Australia fails to sway public as Indigenous Voice faces defeat

Australian businesses’ support for the Voice is doing little to boost the flagging fortunes of the ‘yes’ campaign.

Al Jazeera

Australia’s voice debate is being flooded with misinformation and lies. Here are some facts

Australians will have to face themselves in the mirror the day after the 14 October referendum

The Guardian - AU

What Manchester Museum’s return of 174 Indigenous artefacts tells us about the future of museums

Manchester Museum has formally handed over 174 cultural heritage items to a delegation of women from the Anindilyakwa community of Groote Eylandt, an island in the Northern Territory.

The Conversation

ABC omits the full job title, Tas Libs stick to the script, and Prince Harry dons a German uniform (again)

The ABC deletes a misleading tweet, the scattered approach of the Tasmanian Liberals, and Alexander Downer goes after ‘elites’.

Crikey

First Peoples’ Assembly condemns fake letter as ‘racist fear-mongering’ while Victorian police make inquiries

Letter falsely claiming to be authored by Dylan Clarke wrongly suggests body is reacquiring land

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Liberal senator Kerrynne Liddle rejects comments made by fellow voice no campaigner Gary Johns

Liddle responds to Johns’ claim that some people in Indigenous communities live in a ‘stupor’, and calls for greater respect in voice referendum debate

The Guardian - AU

Jim Chalmers accuses Peter Dutton of being ‘chief propagandist’ of no campaign amid heated voice referendum debate – as it happened

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Queensland government urged to intervene after police staff in racist recordings go unpunished

Retired officers say a lack of accountability within the Queensland police service has allowed racism to fester

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The Indigenous voice debate is testing Australia’s democracy – and we can’t give in to rancorous polarisation

Peter Dutton knows that the louder the contention about the voice gets, the more Australians will switch off

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Afternoon Update: Karen Andrews alleges harassment in parliament; Kim Jong-un in Russia; and why we should keep cats indoors

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Labor accuses no campaign of a ‘flat out lie’ after volunteer phone scripts revealed

Guide suggests callers identify themselves as representing Fair Australia rather than the no campaign against the Indigenous voice to parliament

The Conversation

What does history tell us about the Coalition's proposal for a second referendum?

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has committed to holding another referendum on Indigenous constitutional recognition (without a Voice to Parliament), if the upcoming Voice referendum fails.

Crikey

No campaign tactics word-for-word lift of the same old fearmongering

The No campaign against the Voice is muddying the water with ’emotive language’ rather than ‘facts and figures’. Sounds familiar.

Crikey

‘Important to be neutral’: Avoid using ‘voice’, Electoral Commission staff told

In a bid to retain neutrality, AEC staff have been told to avoid phrases like ‘make your voice heard’ when communicating with the public.

Newsroom.co.nz

Waiheke residents ‘marooned’ by ferry route exemption

Governments have been slow to find solutions to rising ferry fares and missed subsidies, complain islanders struggling to get their kids to hospital. Matthew Scott reports.

The Guardian - AU

Coalition and employers back David Pocock over splitting contentious industrial relations bill

ACT senator wants to move forward with workers’ compensation for PTSD and banning discrimination against employees experiencing domestic violence

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