The Federal Budget’s $10.5 million spend to support the mental health of Indigenous Australians leading up to the Voice referendum is chilling proof that the language of mental injury has become a political tool.
In the grand scheme of eye-watering government spending the amount is tokenistic, but its message is monumental. Labor wants us to believe that airing more than one side of the issue is so dangerous that money is needed to ‘fix’ the damage.
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