The Australian’s Associate Editor Graham Lloyd says the Yes campaign needs to “hammer home” how the Voice to Parliament will help Indigenous Australians. The Voice referendum will be held on the 14th of October. “Grand Final week is now over, we have two weeks until the vote and the way things are looking, you’d have to say that it hasn’t gone the way perhaps the Prime Minister was expecting,” Mr Lloyd told Sky News Australia. “We’ve had the first votes out in rural–regional communities, Aboriginal communities north of Broome. “The Australian was there and the first vote interestingly was a question mark, so that’s informal but the question that was posed is well how is this going to make a difference.”
The Australian’s Associate Editor Graham Lloyd says the Yes campaign needs to “hammer home” how the Voice to Parliament will help Indigenous Australians.“Grand Final week is now over, we have two weeks until the vote and the way things are looking, you’d have to say that it hasn’t gone the way perhaps the Prime Minister was expecting,” Mr Lloyd told Sky News Australia.
“We’ve had the first votes out in rural–regional communities, Aboriginal communities north of Broome. “The Australian was there and the first vote interestingly was a question mark, so that’s informal but the question that was posed is well how is this going to make a difference.”
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