On 30 March 2023 the House of Representatives and the Senate both agreed to the establishment of the Joint Select Committee on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice Referendum.

Last week, on the day Peter Dutton stood up in Parliament House and announced the Liberal Party would campaign for a No vote in the referendum on constitutional recognition, I was standing alongside Kimberley community leaders who had travelled from far and wide to meet on Yawuru country in Broome.