A familiar face of Australia’s legal sector has launched a scathing attack on the federal government’s voice to parliament referendum, coining the vote “wrong in principle”.
Terence Cole, a former NSW Court of Appeals judge, shared his insights in a shock submission to the voice’s joint parliamentary committee.
In the written address, the leading jurist expressed the referendum would permanently “split the Australian people” into two groups and requires a lot more work to become the Uluru Statement of the Heart.
“The voice is critical to the objectives made clear in the Uluru Statement … that Aboriginals wish to establish … sovereignty over Australian territory, ownership of Australian land and surrounding wat...
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