Cape York leader Noel Pearson has pitched the Voice to parliament referendum as the “last best chance” to recognise Indigenous Australians.
Cape York leader Noel Pearson has pitched the Voice to parliament referendum as the “last best chance” to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution and set children up with a better future than their parents, as he pledged the Yes campaign would leave no stone unturned in its bid to convince voters.
“This is our last best chance … What we do in this referendum will be absolutely momentous. This is a chance that comes around so infrequently,” Pearson said.“At 3 per cent, that means we as Indigenous people can’t win the referendum. Our numbers just don’t count. It’s your 97 per cent that counts. The whitefellas – it will fall to you, the 97 per cent, to decide whether we seize this opportunity to make a place complete.
Departing briefly from his set remarks, which he used to declare there would be “no delaying or deferring this referendum”, he drew upon the Australian coat of arms to reinforce his claim that the Voice represented a path forward from the status quo for Indigenous Australians.Rhett Wyman
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