After last week’s drama with Senator Jacinta Price and Professor Marcia Langton, this week was relatively quiet on the referendum front.
Except that No rallies around the country were joined by Nazi groups (video on TikTok), which is pretty appalling. An article about the rallies more generally from the ABC: No voters hold unofficial rallies in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra. The official No campaign has tried to distance itself from these.
Indigenous elders ‘on the fence’ about Voice referendum call for more community education (ABC news).
Senator Lidia Thorpe says she may pull back on opposing the Voice if Labor does more about deaths in custody (The Guardian)
Australian Electoral Commission record highest First Nations and young people voter registration yet (ABC)
Ok, this isn’t from this week but one paragraph from it was too good, so I decided to share it now anyway:
Across the vast expanse of human history, whenever a systemic injustice is set to be addressed, a garbled chorus of conservatives incoherently shit themselves, terrified that things are about to become less awful for someone else. This is a well worn and readily exploitable pattern.
The No campaign’s argument isn’t based on fear, it is fear, David Milner at The Shot
Yes to the Voice 
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