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  1. On this day last year, hundreds of people united in Dharawal Country to advocate for the Yes Campaign. It was indeed a beautiful day filled with love and support.

    Regardless of last year's result, I remain proud of all the local YES23 Sutherland Shire volunteers and everyone else involved. I feel incredibly grateful to have been able to capture these special moments and hope for more change in the future.

    #yes23 #yes23sutherlandshire #voicetoparliament #shiresaysyes #ulurustatement

  2. On this day last year, hundreds of people united in Dharawal Country to advocate for the Yes Campaign. It was indeed a beautiful day filled with love and support.

    Regardless of last year's result, I remain proud of all the local YES23 Sutherland Shire volunteers and everyone else involved. I feel incredibly grateful to have been able to capture these special moments and hope for more change in the future.

    #yes23 #yes23sutherlandshire #voicetoparliament #shiresaysyes #ulurustatement

  3. On this day last year, hundreds of people united in Dharawal Country to advocate for the Yes Campaign. It was indeed a beautiful day filled with love and support.

    Regardless of last year's result, I remain proud of all the local YES23 Sutherland Shire volunteers and everyone else involved. I feel incredibly grateful to have been able to capture these special moments and hope for more change in the future.

    #yes23 #yes23sutherlandshire #voicetoparliament #shiresaysyes #ulurustatement

  4. On this day last year, hundreds of people united in Dharawal Country to advocate for the Yes Campaign. It was indeed a beautiful day filled with love and support.

    Regardless of last year's result, I remain proud of all the local YES23 Sutherland Shire volunteers and everyone else involved. I feel incredibly grateful to have been able to capture these special moments and hope for more change in the future.

    #yes23 #yes23sutherlandshire #voicetoparliament #shiresaysyes #ulurustatement

  5. “I am a psychologist with a 100% Indigenous client base. I can tell you with 25 years of authority & expertise that the narrative that colonialism brought only “positive changes” for Aboriginal people isn’t misguided, it is DANGEROUS.” Dr Tracy Westerman AM
    #auspol #australia #indigenous #yes23

    crikey.com.au/2023/10/10/colon

  6. Feeling disgusted. Horrifying not one state majority for yes. It was such a simple risk-free opportunity for a modicum of fairness and acknowledgement. It’s very depressing that the electorate is so easily manipulated. I can’t imagine what it’s like for the activists who have been working for this for 20+ years. Expect even more suicide & trauma. Little consolation that in our area >80% of people voted yes. We live in a bubble inside an ugly #Australia
    #auspol #humanrights #yes23

  7. A STATEMENT FROM INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS WHO SUPPORTED THE VOICE REFERENDUM

    A Week of Silence for the Voice

    This statement comes from Rachel Perkins, respected Arrernte & Kalkadoon woman, and co-chair of Yes23.

    instagram.com/rachelperkinsau/

    yes23.com.au/

    #AusPol #VoiceToParliament #Yes23 #VoteYes #Referendum2023 #IndigenousVoiceToParliament #FirstNations #Voice #VoteYesAustralia

  8. Not unexpected but very, very disappointing.
    My thoughts are with First Nations people. I’m sorry.
    We have so much work to do in Australia. #VoicetoParliament
    #Yes23

  9. CW: My take on the Voice Referendum result

    What a disgraceful result and sadly reflects the ignorance, denial, deep seated #racism and #prejudice our country continues to suffer from. I’m sorry the majority of Australia couldn’t find it in their hearts to walk together with our First Nations people with this generous & modest #voice proposal. Shame on you Australia. The truth telling of this #referendum is plain to see. What an embarrassing moment in our history. 😥#VoicetoParliament #referendum2023 #ulurustatementfromtheheart #thevoice #auspol #yes23 #racism #ignorance #VoiceTreatyTruth #reconciliation #voteyes

  10. “But no Australian referendum has passed without bipartisan support — and conservative parties campaigned vociferously against this one.

    despite billions in government spending, suicides, incarcerations and the number of children in care remain disproportionately high.

    Sticking with the same old approach, however, is sure to change nothing.


    (emphasis added)
    #yes23 #AusPol #AusReferendum @theeconomist

    espresso.economist.com/89242c1

  11. Ok Mr Dutton, what’s your plan now to end indigenous disadvantage? #yes23

  12. Make no mistake, Peter Dutton saw this #referendum as an opportunity for political gain and rolled with it. I only hope that the nation judges him harshly for his constant lying throughout the campaign.

    I fear this will only make him more popular and embolden him to tell them more less going forward, however.

    #auspol #Yes23

  13. CW: Did a Democracy (selfie)

    At the Museum of Australian Democracy / Old Parliament House

    It was also my 18 year old daughter’s first time voting

    #VoteYES #YES23 #ausvotes #auspol

  14. I voted! Afterwards, I walked to Bunnings to get myself a democracy sausage.

    #VoteYes #Yes23 #Referendum2023

  15. A pair of elderly couples at the polling place. Wouldn’t give me space, almost standing on my feet as we waiting. They castigated anyone describing how to use the vote cards and yelled a bunch of times to use your own pen or your no vote will be converted to yes.

    Funny how the opinions of these obvious sky news viewers mirrors that of fox viewers in the states.

    #yes23 #auspol

  16. Big day for democracy in this corner of the world with the #NZVotes23 general election and #Yes23 referendum in Australia. I voted from overseas for the NZ election, and I don't think such votes get counted till after election night, so don't forget to wait for all the votes to be counted before you consider the election results finalised! #nzpol

  17. I've voted YES!
    This referendum is about straightforward ideas and practical solutions:
    Recognising and respecting 65,000 years of Indigenous culture for the first time in Australia’s 122-year-old constitution.
    Listening to a diverse group of Indigenous Australians about the policies and challenges that affect them
    Protecting the Voice from politics and bureaucrats by putting it in the constitution, giving it the security it needs to provide meaningful and honest advice.
    #yes23 3#Australia #recognition #Recognise @yes23au

  18. #VoteYesAustralia #Yes23 #auspol

    The right wing Christian lobby has been using the same “flood the zone with shit” tactics that doomed the UK with Brexit and the USA with Trump. Don’t fall for it.

    Here’s journo Amy Remeikis debunking the misinformation.

    youtu.be/pC1w5UadtKk?si=tu-cid

  19. @YourSecondDraft

    This is beautiful. I’m sorry it has come so late. Half the country has voted and many have accepted as truth the nonsense they learned on TikTok, without knowing about the beauty of this magnificent land and it’s extraordinary cultures.

    #yes23 #VoteYesAustralia #Auspol

  20. A Secretive Network Is Fighting #IndigenousRights in #Australia and #Canada, Expert Says

    It’s all part of a global playbook from the U.S.-based #AtlasNetwork to protect the profits of #FossilFuel and #mining companies, argues a Sydney researcher.

    By Geoff Dembicki
    Oct 10, 2023

    "A campaign to deny #IndigenousPeoples a voice in Australia’s national Parliament is using tactics similar to an earlier conservative legal battle against #FirstNations communities in Canada, a new research paper argues. 

    "That’s no coincidence, according to the paper’s author Jeremy Walker, because think tanks linked to these efforts in Canada and Australia belong to a secretive U.S. organization called the Atlas Network that’s received support from #oil, #gas and #coal companies and operates in nearly 100 countries. 

    "'The coordinated opposition to Indigenous constitutional recognition by the Australian arm of the Atlas Network we can assume is motivated by the same intentions underlying the permanent Atlas campaign against climate policy [globally],' writes Walker, a senior lecturer in social and political sciences at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. 
    'That is, to minimise the possibility of democratic government challenging the ever-expanding frontier of fossil fuel extraction,' he argues, a charge one conservative Australian advocacy group strongly denies. 

    "On #October14, Australians will vote 'yes' or 'no' in a referendum that would amend the country’s constitution to create a permanent First Nations advisory body in the country’s Parliament. 

    "'Most Australians understand that generations of Australian government policy have failed First Nations peoples,' UNSW Sydney professor Megan Davis, who is a Cobble Cobble woman of the Barunggam Nation, told the Guardian earlier this year. 'The voice referendum is an opportunity for all of us Australians to make the difference.'

    "Earlier this spring national support for the 'yes' position was over 60 percent but by September it had collapsed to 40 percent or less, polling cited by Walker suggests.
    Walker attributes that largely to the efforts of a #conservative advocacy group called #Advance, which has led an extensive media campaign urging people to vote 'No' in the referendum. 'The ‘Indigenous Voice to Parliament’ will wreck our Constitution, rewire our democracy, and divide Australians by race. It’s divisive, it’s dangerous, it’s expensive and it’s not fair,' reads a website created by Advance.  
    The campaign’s main spokespeople are Indigenous – Warren Mundine and Australian Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price – and they have been interviewed frequently in the country’s mainstream media. Yet few Australians are aware of Mundine and Price’s connections to the wider Atlas Network, Walker argues.  

    "Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is another ‘No’ campaigner with Atlas ties.
    Both 'No' campaigners are long-time contributors to the Centre for Independent Studies, Walker’s paper explains, a conservative think tank founded in 1976 with grants from resource extraction companies such as #Shell, #RioTinto and #WesternMiningCorporation
    The Center for Independent Studies is in turn a member of the Atlas Network, a Virginia-based organization whose members include hundreds of conservative think tanks and organizations across the world, many of whom are active spreaders of doubt about the severity of climate change.  
    One of the Center for Independent Studies’ first board members, Maurice Newman, was revealed as an early backer of the organization Advance in 2018, which is now leading efforts against the Indigenous referendum. And Advance’s lead 'No' campaigner Mundine is chairman of LibertyWorks, a conservative group also associated with the Atlas Network.

    "Despite these connections, Advance strongly disputes any association with Atlas. 
    'We have never heard of the Atlas Network and absolutely reject the incorrect assertion we have any connection to them at all,' a spokesperson for Advance wrote in an email to DeSmog. 'The idea that our referendum campaign is being conducted or coordinated by ‘fossil-fuel corporations and their allies’ or the Atlas Network is wrong and frankly bizarre.'

    "In addition to Australia and dozens of other countries, several Atlas Network members are based in Canada. And they too have led efforts attempting to undermine greater recognition of Indigenous legal rights. An Ottawa-based think tank and Atlas member called the MacDonald Laurier Institute spent years advocating against Canada’s federal government adopting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, otherwise known as #UNDRIP.

    "That’s because UNDRIP contained clauses that could potentially give Canada’s Indigenous peoples greater say over fossil fuel and natural resource projects on their territories. 'It is difficult to overstate the legal and economic disruptions that may have followed from such a step,' read documents produced by the Atlas Network and the Macdonald Laurier Institute that were obtained by DeSmog. 

    "The think tank has actively cultivated #ProIndustry Indigenous representatives as the face of its advocacy efforts on this and other natural resources issues in order to provide 'a shield against opponents that is hard to undermine,' according to the documents. First Nations critics refer to such strategies as '#redwashing.'

    "'It’s a way of [industry] making their claims about their relationship with Indigenous peoples sound better than they actually are in reality,' Kris Statnyk, a #Gwichin First Nation lawyer based in British Columbia, told Drilled this summer.

    "Walker sees a parallel between those tactics, and the current effort in Australia to prevent First Nations from having greater representation in that country’s Parliament. The 'No' campaign led by the group Advance prominently features Indigenous Australians arguing against the referendum, despite polling commissioned by advocates suggesting that 80 percent or more of First Nations people in the country support the initiative. 
    Like in Canada, some Australian fossil fuel and mining projects are located in or adjacent to the traditional territories of First Nations.

    "Several Indigenous communities have led legal challenges against gas and coal expansion. 'Should an Indigenous Voice be constitutionalised in Parliament, First Nations representatives might raise objections to such fossil and mining projects,' Walker writes.
    He argues that this is what’s at stake in the upcoming referendum vote.   

    "'The effort to deny Aboriginal Australians a voice is part of a global playbook from Atlas and its allies,' Walker told DeSmog. 'They’ve also used it in Canada and likely anywhere else that greater Indigenous rights could impact fossil fuel and mining profits.'"

    desmog.com/2023/10/10/a-secret

    #VoteYes #Yes23 #VoteYesAustralia

  21. My October enews includes tips for having difficult conversations and a call to arts boards to consider their duty of care, as well as my report on the national reading symposium and some of my own writing updates. Read/subscribe at link in bio (or katelarsenkeys.substack.com/p/).

    #VoiceToParliament #Yes23 #ArtWashing #GreenWashing #ArtsGovernance #ArtsBoards #DutyOfCare #NationalReadingSymposium #DigitalPoetry #AustralianPoetry #PublicOpenSpace

  22. My October enews includes tips for having difficult conversations and a call to arts boards to consider their duty of care, as well as my report on the national reading symposium and some of my own writing updates. Read/subscribe at link in bio (or katelarsenkeys.substack.com/p/).

    #VoiceToParliament #Yes23 #ArtWashing #GreenWashing #ArtsGovernance #ArtsBoards #DutyOfCare #NationalReadingSymposium #DigitalPoetry #AustralianPoetry #PublicOpenSpace

  23. 'It's a splinter in the mind,
    a whisper in the heart
    A feeling something's missing,
    some crucial little part
    It's business that's unfinished,
    a reckoning that's due
    If not now, then when?
    If not us, then who?

    Too many falling far behind,
    shut out of the deal
    If you called and no-one heard you, imagine how you'd feel
    This land was never given,
    it was taken and then sold
    But its ancient songs and stories
    are a gift greater than gold'

    #yes23 #voteyes #yes #voteYES #voteYESaustralia #voice #VoiceTreatyTruth #PaulKelly

    open.spotify.com/track/7HDCdkF

  24. Misinformation = false or misleading information that is unintentionally spread.

    Disinformation = deliberately spreading false or misleading information.

    -> Remember that misinformation and disinformation cause real-world harm to democratic institutions, and people with a lot of money continue to amplify this. <-

    #VoteYes
    #Yes23
    #InIfDoubtFindOut
    #UluruStatementFromTheHeart
    #VoiceToParliament
    #auspol

  25. Some racist arsehole tore down one of our #yes23 corflutes.

    So now when they go past they’ll see a “YES” T-shirt swinging in the same spot and “YES” written using fluorescent orange tape along our property boundary on several trees and poles.

    #VoiceToParliament #VoiceReferendum

  26. Yes makes moral sense, as well as a small step in addressing the major gaps in inequality and justice with First Nations peoples. The Voice is just a small step, an advisory committee. It also needs truth telling and treaty. Dad’s voting Yes on Saturday as it is a path forward in which we all gain increased identity as Australians with open hearts. Be generous, open your heart and write Yes.
    Think big like us Chihuahuas.

    #referendum #yes23 #Glenroy #Mural #muralart #Chihuahuas
    #Australia

  27. I hope you will be part of the positive change Australia needs and #VoteYes like me!

    You can pre-poll already, which I will be doing early next week.

    Here's info on where you can vote on the day or beforehand: aec.gov.au/referendums/voting.

    Please share this post with friends and family. Have a great weekend!

    #Yes23
    #InIfDoubtFindOut
    #UluruStatementFromTheHeart
    #VoiceToParliament
    #auspol

  28. A few friends have been asking me about voting as they are confused by many of the mainstream media's negative and divisive messaging.

    So, here's a voting reminder for The Voice Referendum on *Saturday 14 October* throughout Australia, some info, and where to vote now or on the day.

    I hope you will be part of the positive change Australia needs and #VoteYes like me!

    (Pic by Benjamin Tupas on a quarry hike)

    #Yes23
    #InIfDoubtFindOut
    #UluruStatementFromTheHeart
    #VoiceToParliament
    #auspol

  29. @David_M_Green absolutely!

    For me the marriage equality vote is a touchstone, I’m not a fan of that patriarchal system, and I’m polyamorous, so my relationships wouldn’t have been recognised anyway.

    I voted yes and I’m so pleased now that married queer friends are telling me how much easier housing and medical issues are for them. It’s also obvious that a change in acceptance of diversity has happened.

    Take one step - vote yes!
    #Yes23 #VoiceReferendum #VoicetoParliament

  30. #auspol #Yes23 #Briggs #SenatorBriggs #YortaYorta #VoiceToParliament #VoteYesAustralia

    It seems we can always count on Briggs to cut through the bullsh1t.

    “I don’t believe the majority of Australians are debating the ins and outs of the sanctity of the constitution they haven’t read, or the parliament either, as much as they are deciding whether or not they value Aboriginal people….

    “Even if we had a treaty on the table, wouldn’t we need an advisory body to negotiate it? There’s nothing romantic about saying no to the government in this situation. Because you’re not saying no to the government, you’re saying no to 80% of blackfellas who want this.”

    From: @tasdevilsrgr8
    aus.social/@tasdevilsrgr8/1111

  31. #Auspol #Boikov #ForeignInterference #UkraineAmbassador #VasylMyroshnychenko #AussieCossack #Traitor #Yes23 #VoiceToParliament

    Boikov considers Australia an “enemy state”.

    “He has in the past proudly met with Igor Girkin, who is charged with the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine during which 38 Australians died.”

    Ukraine’s Ambassador to Australia Vasyl Myroshnychenko: “It is typical of the Putin pariah regime – which granted Boikov citizenship on an urgent basis – to show further disregard for Australian law and processes. It’s truly cynical and disrespectful to try to sneak a convicted and suspected criminal – who has been interfering in Australian domestic politics – out of the country.”

    The Russia’s Ambassador to Australia “previously refused to silence or evict Boikov for promoting divisive rallies against Constitutional recognition of Australia’s indigenous people.

    From: @RichForrest2
    aus.social/@RichForrest2/11114

  32. Today I'm letterboxing for the Vote #Yes23 campaign in #Maryvale #Maranoa.
    I'm encouraged by the number of willing #volunteers on the #southerndowns doing the same.
    I might not have volunteered but a couple of weeks ago David Littleproud's taxpayer-funded politically motivated #NationalParty fearmongering misinformation propoganda landed in our mailboxes...
    Maranoa is one of the most conservative electorates in the country. But it's also one where many hold deep religious beliefs or are guided by a strong moral compass and recognise inequality and injustice when they see it.
    So I'm really hoping residents across the electorate (and across the nation) will acknowledge that the status quo - No Voice - isn't delivering for most indigenous people and will vote #Yes23 for change.
    #auspol
    #ItsTime
    #VoteYes23

  33. Today I'm letterboxing for the Vote #Yes23 campaign in #Maryvale #Maranoa.
    I'm encouraged by the number of willing #volunteers on the #southerndowns doing the same.
    I might not have volunteered but a couple of weeks ago David Littleproud's taxpayer-funded politically motivated #NationalParty fearmongering misinformation propoganda landed in our mailboxes...
    Maranoa is one of the most conservative electorates in the country. But it's also one where many hold deep religious beliefs or are guided by a strong moral compass and recognise inequality and injustice when they see it.
    So I'm really hoping residents across the electorate (and across the nation) will acknowledge that the status quo - No Voice - isn't delivering for most indigenous people and will vote #Yes23 for change.
    #auspol
    #ItsTime
    #VoteYes23

  34. Today I'm letterboxing for the Vote #Yes23 campaign in #Maryvale #Maranoa.
    I'm encouraged by the number of willing #volunteers on the #southerndowns doing the same.
    I might not have volunteered but a couple of weeks ago David Littleproud's taxpayer-funded politically motivated #NationalParty fearmongering misinformation propoganda landed in our mailboxes...
    Maranoa is one of the most conservative electorates in the country. But it's also one where many hold deep religious beliefs or are guided by a strong moral compass and recognise inequality and injustice when they see it.
    So I'm really hoping residents across the electorate (and across the nation) will acknowledge that the status quo - No Voice - isn't delivering for most indigenous people and will vote #Yes23 for change.
    #auspol
    #ItsTime
    #VoteYes23

  35. Today I'm letterboxing for the Vote #Yes23 campaign in #Maryvale #Maranoa.
    I'm encouraged by the number of willing #volunteers on the #southerndowns doing the same.
    I might not have volunteered but a couple of weeks ago David Littleproud's taxpayer-funded politically motivated #NationalParty fearmongering misinformation propoganda landed in our mailboxes...
    Maranoa is one of the most conservative electorates in the country. But it's also one where many hold deep religious beliefs or are guided by a strong moral compass and recognise inequality and injustice when they see it.
    So I'm really hoping residents across the electorate (and across the nation) will acknowledge that the status quo - No Voice - isn't delivering for most indigenous people and will vote #Yes23 for change.
    #auspol
    #ItsTime
    #VoteYes23

  36. Today I'm letterboxing for the Vote #Yes23 campaign in #Maryvale #Maranoa.
    I'm encouraged by the number of willing #volunteers on the #southerndowns doing the same.
    I might not have volunteered but a couple of weeks ago David Littleproud's taxpayer-funded politically motivated #NationalParty fearmongering misinformation propoganda landed in our mailboxes...
    Maranoa is one of the most conservative electorates in the country. But it's also one where many hold deep religious beliefs or are guided by a strong moral compass and recognise inequality and injustice when they see it.
    So I'm really hoping residents across the electorate (and across the nation) will acknowledge that the status quo - No Voice - isn't delivering for most indigenous people and will vote #Yes23 for change.
    #auspol
    #ItsTime
    #VoteYes23