Leading Voice advocate Professor Megan Davis says the Yes campaign’s biggest challenge is “the perception that black people are divided”.
Labor’s NT’s Senator Malarndirri McCarthy is on a media blitz to counter Coalition Senator Jacinta Price’s portrayal of an Indigenous community divided on the Voice, an issue the Yes campaign has identified as its biggest challenge.
“They’ve been able to prosecute this division argument which actually isn’t true. There has always been a resistance mob that has resisted every change. But it’s very small and social media has amplified it.” “First Nations’ peoples lives will be better … in terms of health statistics, in terms of high rates of incarceration, rates of suicide, babies’ birth weights that are so low,” she said.
A spokesman for the main No outfit, Fair Australia, said presenting the Indigenous community as divided on the Voice was “not a campaign tactic, it’s just the truth”. Early voting opened across Australia on Monday, with Anthony Albanese repeatedly accusing opponents of misinformation, declining to give his view on why Labor voters were deserting the Voice, and declaring optimism despite sinking approval for the referendum across all major polls.
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