Two Blak Grassroots Campaigners answer your referendum questions about a First Nations Voice to parliament.!
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Millie and Tarneen joined us on our podcast to answer your referendum questions submitted via the Clothing The Gaps Instagram - they speak openly and emotionally about why they are a 'yes' and how it is all feeling in First Nations Communities right now.
Millie Telford (she/her) is a Bundjalung and South Sea Islander woman and currently working as the First Nations Justice Director at Australian Progress. Prior to this role, Millie co-founded Seed Mob, to support a grassroots network of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people to protect country, culture and communities from the causes and impacts of climate change.
Tarneen (they/them) is a proud Gunditjmara, Bindal, Yorta Yorta person and Torres Strait Islander from Mer and Erub Islands. Tarneen is a community organiser for Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance, working on Invasion Day, Black Deaths in Custody, and Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Community campaigns. They are a filmmaker, writer, community organiser and currently working as the First Nations Events & Program Manager with Australian Progress.
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1. Two Blak Grassroots Campaigners answer your referendum questions about a First Nations Voice to parliament.! (00:00:00)
2. Why should white people be allowed to vote on this? considering it's voice for First Nations people. (00:02:18)
3. Do you think a successful a 'yes' vote will mean the government will be able to negotiate with The Voice body to enact treaty? (00:05:28)
4. I'm Mob. How do I respond to whites when they say "what about Aboriginal people who are saying no"? (00:07:37)
5. Why is Community divided? (00:09:58)
6. How have you as an Indigenous person come to believe that assimilating into the constitution of an illegal occupation will actually positively change Indigenous people's lives in this continent? (00:14:15)
7. How will the referendum change the daily lives of First Nations people? (00:20:34)
8. Why is the government funding a 'Yes Voice' Campaign but not a 'No' Campaign? (00:23:38)
9. Are you worried about the rise in lateral violence? (00:26:29)
10. What has been the thoughts and feelings of your Indigenous Communities Organisations publicly supporting a 'yes' vote? Has it increased cultural load, made them feel proud of orgs or made in it harder to voice doubts about the referendum? (00:26:59)
11. What if instead of voting 'yes' or 'no' lots of people wrote on the ballot paper 'Treaty'? If a lot of people did this would it be an opportunity for the conversation of Treaty to be brought forward quicker? (00:28:44)
12. Do you find there is more media pressure for ‘yes’ than ‘no’ votes? I feel the explanation of ‘no’ votes has been shoved under the rug on my social media. (00:30:52)
13. What is the right thing to do? (00:34:33)
14. As a non-Indigenous person what are the best resources to point people towards when they want education on the voice? (00:35:24)
15. Should non-Indigenous people be involved in campaigning for the referendum? (00:39:22)
16. How can I have faith in a referendum with the government who is currently overlooking human rights to lock up our children as young as ten years old? (00:42:39)
17. Does the voice to parliament and constitutional recognition take us further away from self determination and self governance based on our own terms? (00:44:17)
18. Is the idea that the voice isn’t good enough or won’t give enough power to Aboriginal people a good enough reason to vote ‘no’? (00:48:00)
19. There seems to be support from Indigenous people for both the ‘yes’ and ‘no’ vote with solid reasoning behind both sides. As a non-Indigenous person I want to use my vote to amplify the voices of those most impacted by the result. (00:49:04)
20. I’m worried the ‘no’ vote will validate right wing folk who think nothing needs to be changed, and am worried that a ‘yes’ will be a tokenistic measure and bandaid solutions to a large problem. (00:49:04)
21. How can we go into this referendum armed with the best information to support Indigenous communities? (00:49:04)
22. Community care and final thoughts. (00:53:17)
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