ANALYSIS: Thorpe's call for a 'progressive no' vote timed for maximum impact
"There is a progressive no, and the platform needs to be given to those people," Thorpe said.
"If you go around this country, and allow people to speak freely, you will hear their demands, and that is tied up in a treaty, not in a voice that has no power. When she was pressed on how Indigenous disadvantage and disparity would be addressed in the event of a no vote to the Voice, and if such an outcome would result in First Nations people having more power.Just days before, Indigenous advocate Noel Pearson said a no vote would be catastrophic and would prompt him to "fall silent".
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