A policy of assimilation rather than separation First and Second I believe will tend to engender common cause rather than accentuating difference which tends to create increasing prejudice as the rhetoric fails as in the past to match reality.
“By despising himself too much a man comes to be worthy of his own contempt.”( Amiel, 1909, p. 180) Australian citizens of indigenous ancestry already have more voice to power within the existing National and State parliamentary frameworks. They have their own National Ministry for Indigenous Australians run by an Australian citizen of indigenous ancestry as well as State equivalents. There are already expensive extensive bureaucracy plural. How will further embedding of an already failed voice close the Gap, other than an elite indigenous and non-indigenous doubling down on failed policy demanding further scarce resources belonging to all Australian citizens to fill their bottomless pit policy failures. The claim more voice to power is required when there is clearly much more already in existence than granted to any other citizen or group would rationally determine the Gap has nothing to do with the lack of voice interaction of Australian citizens of indigenous ancestry in policy whic