This screenshot is from "Dark Emu" by Bruce Pascoe 👇
The best book i have ever read on Indigenous life and culture.

As we approach the referendum it strikes me that Australians of settler heritage who #VoteNo are STILL thinking "their Christian task is to steal the pillow of the living race".

We must have a #voteyestovoice

#voteyes
#YesToTheVoice
#YEStoVOICE

I have been hoping for a similar outcome for the Australian #Voice referendum as for the gay marriage plebiscite (that was predicted to fail but was then resoundingly supported; and joyously so) .

However, the increasing meaness, apathy and stone-heartedness that Australians of 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, so misrepresented historically and so 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 #voteyes #ulurustatement #VoicetoParliament #VoteYES23Australia

This appalling situation should encourage soft yes’s to vote #YesToTheVoice for humanitarian reasons and soft no’s to vote Yes to reduce the cost of youth detention. #Yes23

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-05/fact-check-young-indigenous-man-jail-university-anthony-albanese/102932912?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

I cant even begin to think how traumatising it must be for #FirstNations people in #Australia to listen to the verbal garbage coming from #VoteNo and realise the #settlers are STILL making decisions about them and their lives, in the most stone-hearted, cruel ways.

If #VoteYES23Australia doesn't win, AS IT SHOULD, Indigenous Australians will know they are being infantilised, excluded, marginalised, denied a #voice ongoing, over and over again by ppl who don't give a shit about their lands, communities, cultures and history.

Ill be heartbroken.
If #YEStoVOICE loses, we all lose.

#Yes23au #YesToTheVoice #VoicetoParliament #VoteYESAustralia #VoicetoParliament #voicereferendum

It’s fair, reasonable and appropriate.
Do the right thing - vote #YesToTheVoice

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/what-are-the-philosophical-concerns-about-the-voice-referendum-an-ethicist-explains/xt5w7xm1a?cid=newsapp:socialshare:other