Artist Uncle Danny Eastwood hopes an Indigenous Voice to Parliament will help educate people across Australia, but some people are uncertain about how it will work.
"The Voice will educate the rest of Australia about early settlement and the cruelty that has happened ... how many know about the massacres?
Last week the official yes campaign for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament was launched in South Australia. "I know there's a long way to go — there's contention in the community — but let's get the Voice up there first then work out the nuts and bolts... once it is I'd like grassroots people to come together and talk for their own country.
Melissa Stubbings — a Darug woman and manager of the Merana Aboriginal Community Association — has questions. "There's up to 300-500 different nations across Australia of Aboriginal people. How are we all going to be represented?"
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