Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price of the [Opposition party rejected the notion that colonization had caused trauma for generations, and stated that inmate families faced similar struggles.
Federal Minister for Indigenous Australia Linda Burney said many First Nations residents felt distressed and fed up with comments by her political opponents on the arrival of British settlers. The
leading activist who supported the 'No' vote, Warren Mundine, took the example of the massacre of Jews who came out of the trauma of the Holocaust, being able to establish the state of Israel.
