The Latest Breaking News from Malarndirri McCarthy

Home Affairs secretary Mike Pezzullo is reported to have sent hundreds of encrypted messages to Liberal powerbroker Scott Briggs in which he denigrated his enemies and tried to protect his allies, and Treasurer Jim Chalmers will spend $41 million on six TAFE centres of excellence and higher apprenticeships.

Crikey analysed remote voter services in the NT to understand the split of Indigenous votes between Senators Price and McCarthy.

Liberal Senator Kerrynne Liddle spoke frankly about herself, her family and their shared fundamental belief that First Nations knowledge — ‘our knowledge’ — must stand alongside Western knowledge.

Aboriginal senator Malarndirri McCarthy says Australians can build a better country as research reveals the extent of discrimination against Indigenous people.

Debate on the Voice bill drew opposition and sometimes inflammatory rhetoric from opposite poles of the political spectrum. 

Politicians have passed legislation enabling the referendum, likely in October. Now it’s up to the general public to make history

Australia’s Senate has voted for a referendum to be held this year on creating an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, an advocacy body to give the nation’s most disadvantaged ethnic minority more say on government policy

The legislation to enable the Australian people to vote in a referendum for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament has passed the Senate by 52 to 19.

Australians will vote in a referendum later this year to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and enshrine an Indigenous voice in the constitution.

Moderate Liberal Andrew Bragg has hit out at opponents of the voice for saying it would bring race into the constitution.

The Uluru dialogue six years ago led to the Statement from the Heart and, ultimately, the upcoming referendum that could deliver constitutional change.