Yes23: This referendum is about straightforward ideas and practical solutions, page-236

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    'Ms Secretary, who runs two town camps in Darwin, is choosing to vote down the concept, instead continuing her ancestors' decades-long fight towards a treaty for her Larrakia clan nation. "Not a Voice in Parliament that makes decisions for us," she said.She believes an advisory board to parliament, such as the Voice would be, will never be able to properly speak for the myriad views of different First Nations clan groups across Australia."Indigenous people cannot speak for other Indigenous peoples' country and lands," she said."We have our own cultural spiritual beliefs. We have our own sacred sites. We have our own languages."

    For Larrakia and Tiwi woman Helen Secretary, the Voice to Parliament is divisive and lacking in true capacity for change."I do not support the Voice to Parliament," she said."We have Indigenous senators."We have Indigenous backbenchers that sit in parliament, they are supposed to be our voice now."'

    Not every Indigenous person who is voting NO is doing so because it doesn't go far enough.

    Source ABC
    Last edited by Tarvold: 31/08/23
 
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