The Majority of Indigenous Australians will vote Yes individuals like Price, Mundine and Thorpe are far less important than the collective unity of 3% some 350 K people that make up the the Australian Nation.
“The voice is a body that wouldn’t need to worry that it would say something that governments disagreed with and be defunded.”
Supporters of a voice have pointed out a ‘no’ vote is a vote for the status quo.
“The Closing the Gap framework that was put in place in 2008 now has 19 targets and four of them have gone backwards,” Ms Parker said.
“For some others we don’t even know if there’s been movement or not because we don’t have adequate data – that says that we have to do more.”
Polling by the Uluru Dialogues has found 83 per cent of Indigenous people support the voice.
“And while people may say, ‘don’t have a voice, do this instead,’ I would say to them, what can we do now to help reduce the numbers of our young people who are suiciding?” Ms Parker said.
“What can we do now to help get our kids ready and on track for them to thrive in education and all of the statistics that we know are abhorrent to any decent Australian?”
The ‘yes’ case requires support from a majority of the population and majorities in four of the six states for the referendum to succeed.
The official ‘no’ campaign against a First Nations voice has been accused of racism by two Indigenous groups, one of which opposes the referendum.
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