Senator Lidia Thorpe has become the Poster Girl the No vote needed. That Prime Minister Alabanese proposes that we vote Yes in principle and then let the likes of Senator Thorpe decide the details of the powers she would like to give to herself is preposterous.
Can the Uluru Statement from the Heart be described as militant? Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey says it can, adding that it's a "vulnerable document".
Professor Blainey says the statement is sometimes silent when Aboriginal failures are visible, but vocal in condemning the Australian people for misdeeds that he says "never happened".
I've just listened to Professor Blainey - remember his now famous book, "The Tyranny of Distance"? - being interviewed by Tom Switzer on ABC Radio National's BETWEEN THE LINES, in which he gives a thoughful and balanced response to the claims by the YES and NO proponents.
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