Aboriginal residents on the Voice to Parliament | October 13, 2023 | Illawarra Mercury - video Dailymotion

Yuin man Uncle Gee Brown and Wiradjuri man Jesse Lowe on how they’re voting in the Voice referendum.

Transcript

00:00 Well I'm going to vote yes because we've had some talking, some meetings with Stephen Jones.

00:08 I got him to come to my men's group and explain to the men's group what it was all about.

00:14 Because when it first came out no one knew much about it.

00:17 A lot of people are still unsure of it.

00:19 But I look at what we've got and what we don't have in our Aboriginal community.

00:24 I feel we should vote yes for that so we can get something out of it.

00:29 People are running around saying we should be voting for a treaty,

00:32 but a treaty's got to come after this one and that's the only way we can do it.

00:36 So everyone that I've been talking to, I say yes, I'm voting yes.

00:41 Some of them say they're still unsure about it, of course, because it's not really explained really well enough.

00:50 I'll be voting yes, just mainly because that's the bottom line of my heart, to say yes.

00:57 I've just been back and forth a little bit and I've spoken with elders, I've spoken with different people.

01:03 It's been a tricky one. I've actually been back and forth myself.

01:08 But I feel at the end of the day I feel moving forward as a mob and as a community across all of Australia,

01:16 people, I feel like we can all come together and live in harmony.

01:20 And having a voice can't be that bad.

01:23 So I feel like it's one step further to all becoming a place together.

01:29 together.

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