Voice referendum results point to shifting faultlines in Australian politics
- Written by Paul Strangio, Emeritus professor of politics, Monash University
It was Martin Luther King Jr, prophet and martyr of the civil rights movement in the United States, who famously remarked, “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice”. Yet there are times when justice seems to become more distant rather than closer.
Saturday was such an occasion in Australia. The nation failed...