“Peter Dutton doesn’t know anything about Indigenous affairs and, dare I say it, nor do the Greens. The Greens’ policies are hopeless,' said Marcia Langton, the other co-chair of the Voice advisory group, said.
Indigenous leaders including Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe denounced the Voice proposal at Invasion Day marches around the country.
Pat Anderson says there is no surprise at the criticism of the Voice at the protest marches but there is concern at the message to voters.Uluru Dialogue co-chair Pat Anderson said the research, based on polling by Ipsos among Indigenous people over the past week, showed overwhelming support for the Voice and backed the case for all Australians to support the change at a referendum later this year.
With the success or failure of Voice turning into a test of reconciliation and national identity, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urged Australians to back the proposal while Opposition Leader Peter Dutton said voters did not understand how it would work – adding, however, that he was willing to meet the referendum working group to hear its views.
The Uluru Dialogue, based at the University of NSW with Professor Megan Davis as co-chair, commissioned research company Ipsos to ask Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders aged 18 and over about the Voice from January 20 to 24. It surveyed 300 people to produce results with a margin of error of 6 percentage points.
Asked how sure they were about their view, 57 per cent said they were “very sure” of their support while 21 per cent said they were “fairly sure” and 2 per cent backed the proposal but said they were not really sure about it.when asked a “yes” or “no” question with no option to be undecided, but their support had slipped from 64 per cent four months ago.
“We are sovereign and this is our land. And we deserve better than an advisory body,” Thorpe told the Melbourne march, estimated at 80,000 people by organisers but at about 15,000 people by police.Anderson acknowledged that Dutton would probably not support the Voice and avoided any criticism of Thorpe.
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