In a message from the Dean and Associate Dean, the University of Sydney Business School has announced its support for the Voice to Parliament.

Following announcements from a majority of faculties, the Indigenous Strategy and Services portfolio and Conservatorium of Music have released statements of support.

More than a year after announcing the draft question, Anthony Albanese has called a date for the Voice to Parliament referendum later this year.

As individual faculties and schools affirm their support for the Voice, the University continues to avoid taking an institutional stance on the upcoming referendum.

Being settlers in a colony like Australia means we find ourselves engulfed within the colonised narrative of Indigenous bodies, land rights and sovereignty.

Is this Voice to Parliament just a Sisphyean, useless gesture meant to appease our community for the next couple of decades? We are not little black puppets for Albanese to control.

Other than being able to weather the test of time, the Yes case must be premised on a radically inclusive Voice that prioritises First Nations activists.

The voices of First Nations peoples – so long silenced in Australian democracy – may soon speak very loudly as the 2022 Garma Festival opens in Arnhem Land this week.

Elle Triantafillou spent the week before the Greek referendum in Athens.