Can home town hero Briggs and Albanese bring Shepparton around to a yes vote on the voice? https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/09/indigenous-voice-to-parliament-referendum-briggs-albanese-shepparton-yes-campaign #auspol #IndigenousIP #voicetreatytruth

I desperately hope so.
The Australian gay marriage plebiscite was touted as a loser beforehand, then was overwhelmingly in favour. Joy !!! All bc a huge majority of Aussies KNEW it was the right and just thing to do.

I have been hoping for a similar scenario for #Voice . However, the increasing meaness, apathy and stone-heartedness that Australians with settler heritage have shown towards #Australias1StNationPeople demonstrate that Australia is a deeply divided and by+large racist country.

Either that or the #Indigenouspeople who make up 3% of this nation are so invisible and misunderstood, that the other 97% just do not care what happens to them bc they're not even on their radar..

Either way it's heartbreakingly sad.
How the hell are #aboriginal communities supposed to feel if #Notovoice succeeds and they know that over half of #Australia has just written them off as unworthy of a #voice
How are they supposed to be "well" with that ?

#auspol #YesToTheVoice #VoicetoParliament #VoteYES23Australia

Much like the plebiscite, I think a lot will depend on young, new voters in the voice referendum.