Traditional owners have stood alongside farmers to fight against mining developments on farmland – but so far that solidarity has not been returned
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to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Do you approve this proposed alteration?The result will determine whether we amend the constitution for the creation of an Indigenous advisory body to parliament. That advisory body will be designed by our own democratic representatives. In rural Australia, those representatives are overwhelmingly from the Liberal and National party rooms.Most rural people I have talked to over the past six months have been firmly in the no camp. A sizeable portion are uncommitted or uninterested.
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