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Flat White

Indigenous bureaucracies keep the gap alive

21 August 2023

4:30 AM

21 August 2023

4:30 AM

While reading Thomas Mayo and Kerry O’Brien’s The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the detail you need, I was reminded of a quote by Ronald Reagan: ‘The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’

The book is replete with lamentations of the woes of colonialism but light on facts, good arguments, or practical outcomes the Voice will aim for.

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