Lack of understanding about the Voice 'alarming' as referendum approaches, filmmaker says

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• unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I like this picture of Dutton they used in the article

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  • No1@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “If I had emotions, and if I had a really sad emotion, it might make my eyes water, and something called ‘tears’ would come out of here”

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• Affidavit@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s astounding to me that every single one of these ‘Yes’ campaign articles that I’ve been spammed with over the past few months is effectively saying, “We must educate these ignorant savages. They know not what they are doing.”

  Do they not see the irony here? Just because someone disagrees with you, does not mean they are ignorant, and assuming so is patronising at best.

  Don’t get me wrong, between the ‘Yes’ camp and the ‘No’ camp, I am mostly in the ‘stop wasting taxpayer funds’ camp. It’s unfortunate that won’t be an option in the referendum.

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  • unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Most of the arguments against the voice that I’ve seen here have been riddled with misinformation, lies and it sounds like they haven’t even read or understand the alteration so I don’t blame the yes campaign for having that sentiment. Claiming that the voice will be a waste of taxpayer’s money is a bit of a stretch though, if it’s too expensive the government can scale it back or just not even pay the members. If you’re claiming that having a referendum is a waste of money because they’re expensive then you might not appreciate the value of democracy

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    • Affidavit@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      • They are misinformed
      • They are lying
      • They can’t or won’t read
      • They are too stupid to understand it
      • They don’t value democracy

      Colour me impressed. I don’t think I could have written such a perfect example of why I hate engaging people in dialogue on this issue. I’ll leave you to your echo chamber. I’m sure you and all the other people who support a Voice will sway many people to your side with such convincing arguments.

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• samson@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Very true. Sadly very few want to commit to learning.

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  • unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve seen many people offering up opinions here and it always seems to me that they either haven’t actually read the alteration or they don’t/don’t want to understand it

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• dalekerrigan@aussie.zone [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  Filmmaker Rachel Perkins, co-chair of Australians for Indigenous Constitutional Recognition, says it’s “alarming” that some people still don’t know what the Voice to Parliament is, only weeks from the referendum.

  Delivering the Dr Charles Perkins Memorial Oration, named after her father, at the University of Sydney on Tuesday night, the Arrernte and Kalkadoon woman said a lack of understanding was a “problem the Yes campaign has”.

  She has directed films including Mabo, Bran Nue Dae, Jasper Jones and the television series Mystery Road.

  “It presents us with an extraordinary opportunity to bind this nation together with its first people, its greatest ever handshake placed in the Australian constitution,” she said.

  In her keynote address, Ms Perkins took aim at Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s position on the Voice.

  Ms Perkins believed the opposition’s plan would represent “no change … to the strategy employed for the last decade, which has yielded no significant closing of the gap and nothing to alleviate the plight of people in communities that he [Mr Dutton] describes as squalid”.

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