Indigenous leaders in Deniliquin have received hate mail after speaking about the referendum, bringing up painful memories of the past
ozens of cars pass a handmade “vote no” sign stapled to a post on the side of the road near the centre of Deniliquin – one of many signs to appear in the New South Wales town as the referendum on theJeanette Crew, a prominent Wamba Wamba elder known to locals as Aunty Jenny, says misinformation whipped up by the voice debate has made some feel “safer to come out and express their racial attitudes”.
“When you have these types of conversations, these inflammatory words, it makes people feel threatened and it doesn’t go away,” David says.to the school in town in the 1960s. “Our little kids actually don’t understand that they’re ending up being the victims of something they don’t understand,” she says. “And it’s not fair, in any sense of the word.”in June. He says Yarkuwa has since received reports about “serious misinformation” about the voice being spread online and in the local community.
“If you go on Twitter or Facebook there’s so much misinformation there,” he says. “If that’s where you’re going to get your information, you’re going to get so much misinformation, so come and talk to us locally.”“It is of no threat to anybody,” she says of the voice. “It’ll just help our voices to be heard, to give the benefit not only to Aboriginal people but to our local economy and our own local society.
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