Well, well, well after all the campaigning and The Echo taking sides, plus the mainstream media, and the celebrities and football clubs etc for the ‘Yes’ vote, the people of Australia have spoken.
Tribal Elders spoke out for the ‘No’ vote as in Auntie Mulara, and Cindy Roberts and Auntie Robyn. I listened to them rather than the corporate Aboriginal people as in Marcia Langton, Noel Pearce and Linda Burney. I helped with pre-polling and on the polling day, putting up with abuse from the ‘Yes’ campaign people and some of the public. The worst was from a person I know fairly well calling me ‘dangerous’. I also had the thumbs up from many people walking past outside the Byron Post Office.
Last Monday (16 October) Senator Jacinta Price asked for a Royal Commission into the rape and domestic violence in Indigenous communities in this country. Of course it was shouted down by Labor, the Greens and a lone male Independent MP. There lies our answer that the government doesn’t care one bit what is going on in the remote Indigenous communities.
I rest my case.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
