Minister to tell National Press Club Indigenous people ‘more likely to have experienced homelessness than to hold an undergraduate degree’
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Voting yes in the voice to parliament referendum is an “act of patriotism”, with the advisory body to be asked to focus on “new perspectives to old challenges” in health, education, jobs and housing, the Indigenous Australians minister says.
Linda Burney will make a deeply personal speech on the referendum on Wednesday, recounting the death of her friend aged just 44 from serious health problems and saying “his Aboriginality condemned him to an early death”.
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