An obscure 1980s documentary about the Indigenous land rights movement has become a clarion call for those opposing the Voice to Parliament. An ABC Investigations analysis has traced how a debunked conspiracy theory about communists was weaponised to divide voters on the referendum.
"Geoff McDonald is an ex-Communist who blows the whistle on the history behind the Aboriginal rights movement," the post stated.
Dr Ross, who has been closely monitoring these channels, said AVE appeared to be collaborating with other anti-Semitic groups to push the case for a No vote. "And then over time, they were really bombarded … No material started coming up through a number of hideously racist Telegram channels."In late July, four months after it was first published in far-right channels, the Red Over Black documentary was adapted to specifically attack the Voice.
ABC Investigations has established the owner of Blacklisted Research is Queensland man Daniel Walker, who has an extensive history of sharing anti-Semitic materials. In 1983 when McDonald published his fifth edition of the book Red Over Black, subsequent claims of Communist infiltration through First Nations organisations were rubbished.
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