Voice to parliament referendum speakers tout South Australia’s progressive credentials and say like the red kangaroo we cannot go backwards – only forwards
Kaurna land is the land of the red kangaroo, Jakirah Telfer told the hundreds of people packed into a theatre in Elizabeth on Wednesday.Telfer, a Kaurna woman and the coordinator of South Australia’s yes campaign, told the crowd why it was important that the referendum launch be held in Adelaide, a place of previous progressive votes.The setting for the launch in Adelaide’s outer suburbs is exactly the kind of heartland the yes campaign needs to win over to clinch victory.
Anthony Albanese called the voice ‘an idea whose moment has come’ as he urged supporters to vote yes in the 14 October Indigenous voice to parliament referendum.The line stretched out the door before the window even opened, past a man in hi-vis sleeping rough, his pop-up tent crammed into the back of a borrowed shopping trolley.
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young sat next to Labor’s Amanda Rishworth, with Senator Penny Wong a few seats down, and the crowd stood and hollered as the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and the South Australian premier, Peter Malinauskas, entered the fray. Hazaras for Yes were there, and the Turbans 4 Australia president, Amar Singh, razzed up the crowd. There were union officials and retired people and members of the African community, and – of course – one random guy in a South Sydney Rabbitohs jersey.
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