ANTAR- Dr Peter Lewis: Every election we say it – “this is a crucial election for [insert issue here]”.

But given the LNPs slide/tumble/free-fall to the extreme right since the appointment of Peter Dutton as Leader of the Opposition and Jacinta Price as Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs it is true to say that this Federal election is crucial for First Nations people, their Allies, and those in the now 34-year-old ‘reconciliation’ movement

While the disappointment of the Voice Referendum is still raw, this is no time to merely lick our wounds. This Federal Election sees a potential reversal in the reconciliation journey – if not an abandonment – of all those gains for which First Nations leaders, and their allies, have struggled for so long.