Kalkadoon and Arrente filmmaker speaks to Full Story podcast after prominent voice opponent campaign leader labelled statement a ‘symbolic declaration of war’
, Perkins said she felt “very disappointed” by the way Mundine had framed what was “a very unifying ask on our country from First Nations people”.
In reference to Mundine’s comments, Perkins quoted the words of her father, Charles Perkins, a trailblazing Aboriginal activist who was instrumental in the campaign for the 1967 referendum. The Kalkadoon and Arrernte film-maker discussed her experience of the “difficult” referendum campaign so far, where she has been “subject to abuse” while she was door-knocking, and encountered “a whole lot of racist stereotypes about my people”.
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