The 1937 manifesto of the New South Wales Aboriginal Progressive Association, which had sibling organisations in other states: 'We have no desire to go back to primitive conditions of the Stone Age. We ask you to teach our people to live in the Modern Age, as modern citizens' How times have changed!

Without question, David Scrimgeour was the right person, in the […]

I waited more than a year for the signature that eventually allowed me to begin a parasitology field study, that delay entirely due to squabbling about who would get the council chairman's job and the perks that went with it. Given the difficulty of achieving consensus in just one small community of closely related clans, what chance a Voice would produce anything but argument, feuds and rancour?