"the Indigenous voice has never been heard,". ....... so you now revert to spin? why is this treefer?
who is telling lies?Previous elected representative national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander bodies supported by the Australian Government are the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee (NACC) (1973–77), the National Aboriginal Conference (NAC) (1977–85), the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) (1989–2005) and the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples (NCAFP) (2009–19). The Torres Strait Regional Authority has continuously represented the people of the Torres Strait since being separated from ATSIC in the 1990s.
There were no equivalent organisations before the NACC. The Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI), a non-government organisation, played a leadership role among Indigenous and associated organisations in the 1960s and early 1970s, particularly in campaigning for the 1967 referendum.
Previous Australian Government-appointed advisory bodies include the Council for Aboriginal Affairs (1967–1976), the National Conference of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Councillors (1972), the National Indigenous Council (2005–07), and the Prime Minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council (2013–c. 2019).
While not fitting the definition of a government-created elected or appointed representative and advisory body, also relevant are the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (1991–2000), the Special Envoy on Indigenous Affairs (2018–19) and the Coalition of Peaks (2018–present).
https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp2223/Quick_Guides/FormerAboriginalandTorresStraightIslanderRepresentativeBodies
