Will today be the day that you read the #statementfromtheheart

https://ulurustatement.org/the-statement/view-the-statement/

Listicle of Six Things Because People Read Listicles

1. It'll take about 3-4 minutes to read.

2. It's the reason Australia is having the referendum.

3. 85% of voters have still not read it or heard it

4. Voting is compulsory for Australians over 18 (as is registering to vote, which you must do in the next couple of weeks if you haven't already)

5. If you don't know, find out. If you're too lazy to spend a few minutes understanding what is being asked, then voting 'no' isn't the 'safer' option. The status quo is decidedly unsafe. Ignorance harms.

6. The Voice is one of three requests in the Statement. The other two are arguably even more important (#Treaty and #Truth), but the #Voice is what the government has decided to respond to first and is the only question on the referendum.

7. No one likes a list with six items in it

#UluruStatement #Auspol #VoiceToParliament #VoiceReferendum

The image is of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, a petition arising from a May 2017 gathering of hundreds of First Nations delegates at Uluru, the internationally-recognised #Pitjantjatjara sacred site at the heart of the continent.

It was this Statement that was the impetus for the current referendum.

(More information about the statement if you click on the image).

Yet just weeks out from actually voting, surveys indicate that only 15% of voters have ever read or heard the text of the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

The full statement can be read here, it is not long: https://ulurustatement.org/the-statement/view-the-statement/

#Auspol #Voice #VoiceReferendum #VoiceTo Parliament #UluruStatement #StatementFromTheHeart #Uluru

EDIT: typo

In just over a month, Australian voters are to go to the polls to vote on a referendum to change the (colonial) constitution in a small but symbolic way.

Here is the text Australians will be voting on in mid-October:
___________
A Proposed Law: to alter the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.

Do you approve this proposed alteration?
___________
The Voice would be a consultative group only, created and controlled by legislation, without any power over legislation.

But of course, given the centuries-long entrenchment of white supremacy in a settler-colonial society (the only Commonwealth nation to have not signed any kind of treaty with the original inhabitants of the land being stolen through sustained colonial violence), the reactionary forces in Australian society treat this referendum as an opportunity to maximise confusion, fear, disinformation and all the usual racist tropes.

It's working. Support for the proposal has dropped from about 70% when first announced, to the mid-40s.

#Auspol #UluruStatement #VoiceReferendum #VoiceToParliament #voice

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Today households across Australia woke to an impactful AUSLAN television commercial for The Voice to Parliament as part of our #HaveYourSay campaign.
Get involved and learn more: #HaveYourSay and visit http://www.haveyoursay.net
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