Jacqueline Maley, David Crowe and Sean Kelly discuss the Voice to parliament referendum. What happens after? And what does the debate reveal about Australia?
, senior writer Jacqueline Maley sits down with chief political correspondent David Crowe and columnist Sean Kelly to discuss Saturday’s referendum.: We live in an attention economy. The Yes campaign is going into this final week behind – they needed to persuade as many people as possible, they needed to change minds ... There is a great deal of indifference towards the outcome of this referendum.
: We don’t obviously want to preempt the result on Saturday night, but if No wins and Yes loses, as seems likely, what will the reaction be of the Aboriginal leadership? The men and women who have spent so many years decades in some cases working towards this reform?I don’t think Australians are really prepared for this. I think most people will be quite shocked when they see what happens on Saturday night and in the days following.It’s reminded us of how conservative Australia is as a country.
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