The proposed Indigenous voice ("Sun sets on old ways as Indigenous voice is heard", 9-10/1) is a Trojan horse and Australians are being asked to place their heads in a constitutional noose by approving it. The interim report is indeed "a further important step" in a process, as your editorial notes ("Giving voice to a long journey"); and the destination may be a fatally divided continent of two separate nations. That eventuality is entirely against the interests of most Australians.
That the PM has said that the voice might eventually be "ultimately enshrined in the constitution" shows the danger involved in supporting the present model called for.
The High Court's Mabo decision in 1992 was a flawed statement based on unethical judicial adventurism. It expressed opinions, not "realities", and is not unchallengeable. Debate about terra nullius does not overturn our nation's current de jure status as an independent nation.
Calls for "truth-telling about our history" look suspiciously like a plan to introduce an intellectual tyranny among us.
Nigel Jackson,
Belgrave, Vic