Why it’s important to listen to Lidia Thorpe. Even if you’re voting Yes.

<p>To this day, a war is still being waged against Indigenous Australians by a colonial state.</p><p>That is the vision sketched out by Senator Lidia Thorpe this week in a landmark speech.</p><p>She says a Voice to Parliament would simply be “window dressing” and an “insult” to the intelligence of Indigenous Australians still living under violent colonisation.</p><p>So is a Voice to Parliament really an extension of Australia’s shameful past? Or could it help overcome that trauma?</p><p>Today, contributor to The Saturday Paper Daniel James, on why it’s important to listen to...