Good-day humans, welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas.

And here's a big dangerous idea that every single Australian man, woman and child, not child, they can't vote.

Man and woman and other non-man woman, man, she man.

And all of the voting people in Australia

will soon be asked

nay required to vote on

the idea

that Australia should change its constitution

to create a formal body

in which First Nations Australians

could express their will, their opinion

on bills that may come before the Parliament

that affect First Nations people. This would be a very, very big deal, and it's not very

free very often that Australia comes together to try to change its founding document or that

any country comes together to try to hold a national referendum to change its founding document or that any country comes together to try to hold a national

referendum to change its founding document. So I thought it would be time to speak to someone who

understands this issue better than anyone. Jack Latimore is the Aboriginal Affairs

journalist at the age and the City Morning Herald newspaper, these are the large broadsheets in Australia, and can give us the most impartial understanding of all of the people who I know, of the pros and cons, the yeses and the knows, the facts and the fictions, which he's been studying

about this proposal. A little bit of background first. First Nations Australians are the

oldest continuous civilization in the world. There are a great many different nations on the landmass and the waters and

islands of Australia, and therefore it has not historically been a simple question of like,

oh, let's just make a treaty necessarily, not that there's ever been a huge push for a treaty,

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