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Now it’s diplomatic relations for First Nations

An ambassador for some, but not all

5 October 2024

9:00 AM

5 October 2024

9:00 AM

To the chagrin of the Left, we didn’t get an Aboriginal Voice to parliament, but thanks to Penny Wong and Albanese we have an ‘Aboriginal Ambassador for First Nations People’. A snip too, at $350,000 for travel alone last year. Labor has also resuscitated a Gillard hand-me-down in the form of an ‘Ambassador for Gender Equality’ – a woman (genuine), but if it’s about equality why not male and female joint ambassadors, and then the way things are going someone trans and someone LGB and so on equalisingly all the way through the alphabet? But I digress.

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