A top No campaigner has instructed volunteers to instil fear in voters’ minds and raise reports of financial compensation to Indigenous Australians.
Revelations about the tactics being used by No campaigners against the Indigenous Voice have triggered a call for Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to condemn the campaign’s false claims about compensation.had instructed volunteers to instil fear in voters’ minds, not to identify themselves upfront as No campaigners and to raise reports of financial compensation to Indigenous Australians if the Voice was set up.
“Minister Clare, standing up here today, claiming he knows what the Voice will and won’t call for, how the Voice will and won’t behave, and insert itself into our political system, is pretty rich.”Clare said the main falsehood was the claim being spread by No campaigners that the Voice was about compensation, an assertion he compared to Dutton’s warning in 2008 that the parliament’s apology to the stolen generations would lead to compensation payments of up to $10 billion.
In 2020, leading Voice campaigner and unionist Thomas Mayo suggested a Voice could help to push for compensation for Indigenous people.Former Liberal treasurer of NSW Matt Kean said revelations about the No campaign showed the anti-Voice outfit “has nothing to offer but fear & anger”.
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