Two indigenous Senate candidates have launched a new political party to represent Indigenous and Aboriginal Australia in the Senate.
Marnie Laree Davis and Wayne Coco Wharton and have launched the Indigenous Aboriginal Party of Australia and will be its Queensland Senate candidates.
They said they would seek the votes of “all the Yes voters from the Voice referendum.”
Mr Wharton has been preselected in the number one position and Ms Davis number two.
Ms Davis said the party wanted to give Iindigenous people a voice in parliament rather than a voice to parliament.
“Not an advisory body but real community-lead representation,” she said.
“Our vision is to break down institutional barriers and confront racism which stops Indigenous people thriving in their own country.”
Mr Wharton said Sovereignty was never ceded on this continent and the Federal Court had upheld that Sovereignty through the Mabo decision.
“I tell people it is time to decide whether they want a one State solution on this continent or(recognition of) the 300 Indigenous Sovereign Nations of this Continent,” he said.
The candidates called for unionists and their leaders to remember the long-time solidarity and partnerships in the collective struggle for workers and Indigenous liberation and to “convert the campaigning energy from the Voice referendum, to help elect an Indigenous party candidate to the Senate.”
“We need good people to give us their first preference to change focus to a positive agenda that can deliver liberation. freedom and restitution for First Nations Peoples,” Ms Davis said.
