Australian people shouldn’t be taken for fools – they are turning up to Uluru dialogues hungry for factual information about the Indigenous voice
s adults, many of us have voted in our first election, bought our first car or house, or had our first baby . Each of these “firsts” comes with a level of excitement and trepidation about the unknown. For those of us under the age of 41, a new “first” is coming: on 14 October we will participate in our first referendum.Indigenous voice to parliament
As the referendum looms, loud voices on all sides of politics and the media take up space in the news cycle. Many Australians are searching for answers about what it actually means to vote in a referendum. We don’t want to be telling our grandchildren how close we got to real, substantive change only to fail to get it over the line. We are working to make sure that doesn’t happen.As ambassadors for the Uluru youth dialogue, we’ve been hosting community information sessions around Australia explaining constitutional recognition, the regional dialogue process that led to the Uluru statement from the heart, and the voice referendum question and amendment.
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