Unless you've had your head in a bag over the past thirty years you would know what's required to assist or advance Indigenous Australians in remote or rural communities. These include access to health services, housing, infrastructure, medical equipment, education. They also need mental health services, anger management, programs to alleviate drug and alcohol dependency, child abuse, domestic violence. Professional workers willing to move to these areas, etc.
Given this, I don't think it is a lack of a voice or lack of listening by governments because there are hundreds of Indigenouse programs and institutions providing opportunities to advance mixed race Indigenous Australians. Instead, it is a reluctance of governments to ACT on already spoken needs that's the issue.
Perhaps it is the tyranny of distance - the real distance between rural communities and our major cities or maybe it's the divide between our culture and theirs.
If the Albanese government was sincere in it's desire for a Voice they should act on what we all already know instead of devising a Voice, which will basically be an official 'too hard basket'!
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