Leading ‘Yes’ campaigner Noel Pearson says Indigenous people have a mixture of “hope and terror” about the outcome of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. Mr Pearson said during his address at the National Press Club that Australia's answer to the referendum is so important to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders people. “We would be untruthful if we didn’t say we had a mixture of hope and terror about the answer to this referendum,” Mr Pearson said on Wednesday. “No one wants their invitation of friendship and love to be unrequited. “One may sometimes feel it may have been easier to have never extended the hand of invitation from the heart.”
Leading ‘Yes’ campaigner Noel Pearson says Indigenous people have a mixture of “hope and terror” about the outcome of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
Mr Pearson said during his address at the National Press Club that Australia's answer to the referendum is so important to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders people. “We would be untruthful if we didn’t say we had a mixture of hope and terror about the answer to this referendum,” Mr Pearson said on Wednesday.“One may sometimes feel it may have been easier to have never extended the hand of invitation from the heart.”
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