Sentence examples for indigenous electorate from inspiring English sources
Baird may have success convincing other Australian premiers and chief ministers that they need to support constitutional recognition but he is going to have a much harder time convincing the Indigenous electorate.
MacFarlane stresses there is more to the electorate than Indigenous issues.
He acknowledged the "uncomfortably high" suicide rate among Indigenous people in his electorate, but rejected the idea that the government should set a new Close the Gap target for mental health.
He wants all parliamentarians to meet with Indigenous members of their electorates in order to identify the "gaps" that exist for them.
The 1.3m sq km electorate, named for the stockman and Indigenous land rights hero Vincent Lingiari, encompasses more than 99% of the Northern Territory's tropics, bush and desert – plus Christmas and Cocos-Keeling islands – but is home to just 63,000 voting people.
Lingiari is the country's second largest electorate, and has the highest proportion of Indigenous voters.
The first Indigenous woman to enter the Victorian Parliament, Thorpe brings with her a new and direct message that encapsulates her electorate of Northcote and of the wider Indigenous Australian community on such issues as changing Australia Day.
"He parsed the electorate.
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