Hello there poppets! / L Plate Mama

I listen to Radio Melbourne, I've never rung in but my other half says if I did I'd be "Angry of Aspendale".  Usually I would say I'm not angry, I'm passionate. But at the moment I am angry, angry and disappointed, angry and sad. I feel the world we've been chipping away at has slipped away from us, so much further out of reach.  I was full of hope that the Australian public would recognise the wounds of our colonial past, would see the need for change, would heed the call made in the Statement from the Heart, and vote yes to a constitutional voice for our First Nations people.  I sat on the couch on that Saturday night, and wept for our lost opportunity, for First Nations people who had worked so hard and held such open hearts for reconciliation to have the door slammed in their face. For our Nation beholden to fear, to the status quo, to the deeply held and mostly unacknowledged discrimination and racism.  I wept, and my 10 year old held me, and I felt b...