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The Nays have it.
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The Voice is the first step in redistributing power and enabling self-determination.”
In a speech posted on the Search Foundation’s Facebook page in February 2020, Reid said “First Nations want the power in their hands, that’s what the Voice is about” and “the Voice is a journey with all Australians to begin to demolish the systems that continue to oppress us”.
In March 2023, Teela told attendees at a Voice to Parliament forum held at Blackwood Uniting Church, “It’s going to be very difficult, once we succeed, for a government to ignore this Voice. It will be powerful.”
Like Thomas Mayo, Teela Reid also calls for “reparations and compensation” to be paid to Indigenous Australians. In a May 2023 interview about the Voice to Parliament with the Ethics Centre, she said:
“You know that there does need to be reparations here, there does need to be compensation, there does need to be these tough decisions and reparations for what First Nations people have lost.
In 2020, she wrote in the Griffith Review that “the struggle for a First Nations Voice” is about the fight for “compensation and reparations”:
“The struggle for a First Nations Voice has been 250 years coming, ever since Captain Cook landed uninvited in 1770. It is about the fight for land rights, water rights and the right to save our planet from the colonial structures that have attempted to destroy it. A constitutionally entrenched First Nations Voice is recognition that our sovereignty never was, never will be ceded.”
From Senator Jacinta Price.
Fair Australia