The Guardian, Feb 20 2023, Lorena Allam and Josh Butler
This week has been declared the “national week of action” on an Indigenous voice to parliament with community barbecues, letterdrops and online “yarning circles”. Multiparty and multi-faith forums are being planned in a show of wide support for the vote, now expected to be held in October.
Until now, the voice has been a “Canberra” story: dominated by and about politicians. The yes campaigners have often said they didn’t want it to be that way. The Uluru statement from the heart, they say, is addressed to the Australian people…
Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP
