Chris Marshall
This submission "seeks to consider the forthcoming [Voice] referendum by looking at the lives, words and experience of two outstanding Aboriginal heros of the past - William Cooper and Douglas Nicholls - Christian men, who advocated for their people in times of immense marginalisation and oppression, and who stood against the overwhelming tide of settler discrimination".
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