Australia is scheduled to hold a referendum on Oct. 14 to decide whether to create a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous advisory body to parliament, as requested by the country's Indigenous leaders in 2017.
Since the referendum concerns a change to Australia's constitution and is unrelated to party politics - officially, anyway - the campaigns for and against the proposal are decentralised.
The referendum asks voters to give only 'Yes' or 'No' responses to the proposed change, so the 'No' camp is not required to put forward an alternative form of Indigenous representation. To succeed, it must only convince voters not to support the current proposal. *Advance Australia: The conservative lobby group has positioned itself as a counterweight to left-leaning advocacy groups in recent elections, with campaigns fought mostly on social media. Advance Australia also operates Facebook discussion groups to amplify anti-Voice content. Indigenous conservative senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has
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