Experts have expressed concern over the impact an increasingly toxic public debate on the Voice to parliament will have on young Aboriginal people.
Mental health practitioners and emotional and social wellbeing organisations say even a small rise in racial hostility is likely to disproportionately affect younger generations, who are also more exposed to it by social media.
“When there’s a lot of misinformation out there and people are making these big claims that things are going to be terrible, or they’re misrepresenting what this Voice is really all about then, as a young person, it’s sometimes really hard to combat that,” Milroy said. “A lot of Aboriginal young people are hurt by the way that the general population in Australia sees them,” Stewart said.
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