Noel Pearson, uses Voice as a call for national unity
Prominent Voice to Parliament campaigner Noel Pearson has made an impassioned pitch to voters urging them to support next month's referendum. Selling a message of love and unity, the indigenous lawyer has sought to counter criticisms being levelled at the proposed first nations advisory body.
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00:00 Still hoping for victory, two weeks out.
00:04 Yes! Yes!
00:06 Labor's trying to reach as many undecided voters as possible.
00:10 Back in Canberra, a different tone at the National Press Club.
00:14 Yesterday there was talk of war, today a message of peace.
00:19 We don't need mutual affection to succeed in this referendum.
00:25 We need to recognise our mutually shared love for the land.
00:32 Setting out the challenge of holding a referendum in a digital age,
00:36 amid recurring calls for more detail.
00:39 This attempt to conflate the constitutional provision
00:45 with the legislative detail
00:48 is a complete failure to read the words of the provision.
00:55 I don't see any love in the war against First Nations peoples.
00:59 If Yes gets up, the war continues.
01:02 The Yes side hopes talk of love and unity
01:05 will help garner support for the referendum,
01:08 while the No side is focusing on division,
01:10 thinking that it might tap into the minds of some undecided voters.
01:14 Either way, both campaigns have just over two weeks left to make their case.
01:19 their case.
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