April
Truth-telling risks inflaming community conflict: report
Amid heightened scrutiny on community cohesion, a new report says 60 per cent of Indigenous Australians have major concerns about a Makaratta process.
- Tom McIlroy
There’s more to the Armaguard story, says ‘antique’ Kelty
Readers’ letters on the saga of Armaguard and cash supply; reactions to the appointment of Sam Mostyn; pitfalls for shareholders in corporate support for the Voice; and the impact of EV innovation.
The corporate cost of the Yes campaign
In some circles, there is now a perception that corporate alignment with a cause can alienate more voters than it persuades.
- Samantha Hutchinson
Biggest donor to Yes campaign has no regrets
The Paul Ramsay Foundation donated $7 million to the failed Voice referendum. The amount of cash “felt appropriate then” and still does now, says its chairman.
- Samantha Hutchinson
Ramsay Foundation splashed $7m on failed Voice campaign
Rich Listers, major charitable foundations and big corporates spent millions on last year’s Indigenous referendum.
- Tom McIlroy
March
- Opinion
- Federal election
Senate a sticking point for four-year terms
The conundrum that must be squarely faced is 1988’s defeated take-it-or-leave-it constitutional amendment that rolled in a shorter term for the upper house.
- Helen Irving
Inside Advance Australia’s referendum victory lap
The conservative lobby group is literally mailing out its playbook, soliciting future donations by showing how effectively it spends what supporters have given.
- Myriam Robin
Advance lobby group the ‘biggest loser’ from Dunkley byelection
Pollsters say that while the Dunkley byelection was not a write-off for the Liberal Party, it was a brutal result for the credibility of lobby group Advance.
- Gus McCubbing
AFL inclusion boss says Paul Keating was wrong on the Voice
Eight years into her role, and still recovering from the amputation of her lower right leg last year, Tanya Hosch keeps pushing on in a job where there is no finish line.
- Simon Evans
February
Langton says Keating was ‘right’ on the Voice
The Indigenous leader said the former PM was right about the Voice being “a mistake from the start” and that a legislated body should have been established before a referendum.
- Michael Pelly
The Voice was a ‘mistake from the start’
Former prime minister Paul Keating is calling for an Aboriginal legislated body to build on the gains of native title.
- Michael Stutchbury
- Exclusive
- Political donations
The 95-year-old Perth retiree behind the $1m No donation
Retired car dealer Brian Anderson waited until he was 95 to make his first political donation – a $1 million payment to conservative campaign group Advance Australia.
- Tom Rabe and Andrew Tillett
The heavy hitters behind Australia’s biggest conservative lobby group
Australia’s richest businesspeople have become major backers of Advance Australia, which helped lead the “no” campaign at the Indigenous Voice to parliament referendum.
- Updated
- Primrose Riordan and Andrew Tillett
January
Scientists, women lead honours list, amid unease about holiday date
Deborah Terry, Brett Sutton, Paul Briggs and Christina Matthews are among those on the Australia Day honours list. But some question the meaning of the national holiday.
- Maxim Shanahan
Victorian opposition backflips on treaty support
The proposed treaty would pave the way for legally enforced Aboriginal consultation on future Indigenous-related decisions.
- Melissa Meehan and Rachael Ward
PwC, the Voice and RBA’s huge year: 2023’s biggest stories
Here are some of our biggest and most-read stories from the past year.
December 2023
- Exclusive
- Megan Davis
‘Hatred of politicians’ killed the Voice: Megan Davis
A key architect of the Voice referendum says racism played a role but was not as decisive as the public’s “hatred for politicians” and rejected claims symbolic recognition would have won Coalition support.
- Michael Pelly
Give power to Indigenous communities, bureaucrats told
Governments will need to let go of controlling public programs and genuinely empower local communities, says Prime Minister and Cabinet boss Glyn Davis.
- Tom Burton
November 2023
‘Grace, dignity, inspiration’: ill Dodson bows out of politics
Labor senator Patrick Dodson says Australia has to reconsider its national integrity and honour after the failure of the Voice referendum, as he retires from parliament.
- Tom McIlroy
Voice leaders demand Labor deliver Indigenous treaty
Yes23 campaign co-chair Rachel Perkins told supporters of Indigenous constitutional recognition “the aspiration of a Voice remains”.
- Tom McIlroy