Revelations about the secretive He Puapua manifesto should sound a grim warning to Australians, as we are pushed and prodded into yoking ourselves to an “Indigenous Voice to Parliament”.

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Punk rock philosopher. Liberalist contrarian. Grumpy old bastard. I grew up in a generational-Labor-voting family. I kept the faith long after the political left had abandoned it. In the last decade...