WEBVTT - What are you voting for on October 14?

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<v Speaker 1>My name is Lily Maddon and I'm a proud Arunda

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<v Speaker 1>Bungelung Calcottin woman from Gadighl country. The Daily oz acknowledges

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<v Speaker 1>that this podcast is recorded on the lands of the

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<v Speaker 1>Gadighl people and pays respect to all Aboriginal and Torres

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<v Speaker 1>Strait Island and nations. We pay our respects to the

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<v Speaker 1>first peoples of these countries, both past and present.

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<v Speaker 2>Good morning and welcome to the Daily oz It's the

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<v Speaker 2>last day of winter. Thanks God for that. Thursday, the

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<v Speaker 2>thirty first of August.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm Zara Seidler, I'm Sam Kazlowski. It's official.

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<v Speaker 2>We now have the date that Ozzi's will go to

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<v Speaker 2>the polls and vote in the referendum on an Indigenous

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<v Speaker 2>voiced Parliament.

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<v Speaker 4>Today I announced that referendum day will be the fourteenth

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<v Speaker 4>of October.

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<v Speaker 2>So what exactly is going to happen on that day

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<v Speaker 2>and what is it that we're actually voting on. We'll

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<v Speaker 2>let you know in today's deep dive. But fair Sam,

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<v Speaker 2>some inflation numbers yesterday.

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<v Speaker 3>That's right. Inflation has slowed for the third month in

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<v Speaker 3>a row to four point nine percent in July. That's

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<v Speaker 3>according to new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

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<v Speaker 3>It means that prices were four point nine percent higher

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<v Speaker 3>in July than the year prior. That's down from five

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<v Speaker 3>point four percent in June. It's the lowest inflation rate

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<v Speaker 3>since February twenty twenty two, and the result is expected

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<v Speaker 3>to influence the Reserve Bank's next cash rate decision. Ahead

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<v Speaker 3>of its meeting on Tuesday. The RBA has kept the

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<v Speaker 3>cash rate the same it's four point one percent at

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<v Speaker 3>their last two meetings.

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<v Speaker 2>Minimum employment standards could be introduced for delivery and ride

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<v Speaker 2>share drivers. A federal government proposal is expected to be

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<v Speaker 2>announced later today, and that will detail payment terms and

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<v Speaker 2>insurance agreements aimed at better protecting workers in the gig economy.

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<v Speaker 2>The reforms would also protect workers from being unfairly deactivated

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<v Speaker 2>by digital platforms such as ride sharing apps.

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<v Speaker 3>New Zealand is one step closer to lowering the voting

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<v Speaker 3>age for local council elections to sixteen after draft laws

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<v Speaker 3>were introduced to Parliament now now be considered by a committee,

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<v Speaker 3>but change won't be legislated until after the upcoming October election.

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<v Speaker 3>The legislation comes after the country's Supreme Court found that

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<v Speaker 3>the current voting age of eighteen was inconsistent with the

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<v Speaker 3>human rights of children. If the current Labor government does

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<v Speaker 3>not win the election, it's unlikely the voting age will change.

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<v Speaker 2>And the good news a world first cancer treatment that

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<v Speaker 2>is aiming to treat patients faster will be rolled out

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<v Speaker 2>for more than three thoy five hundred patients in England.

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<v Speaker 2>This treatment will be administered as an injection. The immunotherapy

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<v Speaker 2>treatment is expected to provide faster care for patients and

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<v Speaker 2>its demand on the healthcare system. Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi

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<v Speaker 2>has announced the referendum date for an Indigenous voice to Parliament.

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<v Speaker 4>The idea for a voice came from the people and

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<v Speaker 4>it will be decided by the people. Today I announced

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<v Speaker 4>that referendum day will be the fourteenth of October. On

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<v Speaker 4>that day, every Australian will have a once in a

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<v Speaker 4>generation chance to bring our country together and to change

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<v Speaker 4>it for the better.

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<v Speaker 3>So this is something that all Australians who are over

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<v Speaker 3>eighteen are going to have to vote on, and that

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<v Speaker 3>really means it's on us to understand what it's about.

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<v Speaker 3>Let's start with the big question, what is the Indigenous

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<v Speaker 3>voice to Parliament?

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<v Speaker 2>So Essentially, in a nutshell, an Indigenous Voice to Parliament

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<v Speaker 2>would be a representative body, an official representative body that

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<v Speaker 2>would give First Nations people in Australia a say in

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<v Speaker 2>the laws and the policies that affect them. So pieces

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<v Speaker 2>of legislation that might pass through Parliament that would affect

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<v Speaker 2>the lives of First Nations people would go to this

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<v Speaker 2>consultative body. And so that is this idea of an

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<v Speaker 2>Indigenous voice to Parliament. Crucially, the government wants to include

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<v Speaker 2>this voice in Australia's constitution, which doesn't currently recognize First

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<v Speaker 2>Nations people. In order to change the constitution, though, you

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<v Speaker 2>do need to have a successful referendum, and that's.

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<v Speaker 3>What we're going to do on the fourteenth of October.

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<v Speaker 3>How that process actually work, So.

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<v Speaker 2>As I said, a referendum is a public vote to

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<v Speaker 2>change the Australian Constitution and it's compulsory for all Australian

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<v Speaker 2>citizens aged eighteen and over to vote, so similar in

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<v Speaker 2>the way that an election is run. Here for a

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<v Speaker 2>referendum to succeed, it's a bit confusing, but bear with me.

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<v Speaker 2>The majority of voters across Australia, as well as the

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<v Speaker 2>majority of voters in a majority of states, so we

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<v Speaker 2>call it a double majority must approve it.

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<v Speaker 3>It's a pretty high bar, right.

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<v Speaker 2>It is a high bar. It's really hard to change

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<v Speaker 2>the constitution. And I mean the last referendum was in

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<v Speaker 2>nineteen ninety nine. That one was to establish Australia as

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<v Speaker 2>a republic, so to separate us from the monarchy and

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<v Speaker 2>to implement an alien head of state. Granted we are

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<v Speaker 2>still under the king. That one didn't pass, No, it

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<v Speaker 2>didn't get up, and that was the last time that

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<v Speaker 2>we had a referendum. But interestingly, one of the questions

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<v Speaker 2>that keeps coming up every time we either do a

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<v Speaker 2>podcast on this or we post about it is what

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<v Speaker 2>about the marriage equality vote in twenty seventeen. And I

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<v Speaker 2>do think that the confusion here is very valid, So

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<v Speaker 2>let's just quickly get into that. So, as I mentioned,

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<v Speaker 2>a referendum is a vote to change the constitution. When

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<v Speaker 2>Australia voted in twenty seventeen, it was actually to change legislation,

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<v Speaker 2>not the constitution. So the vote was on whether the

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<v Speaker 2>Marriage Act should be updated to allow for same sex

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<v Speaker 2>couples to marry in this country. And it was a

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<v Speaker 2>voluntary postal survey, so it wasn't compulsory to vote in

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<v Speaker 2>like an election or like the referendum that we're going

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<v Speaker 2>to in October, and ballots were mailed to voters. So

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, it feels like forever ago, but we didn't

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<v Speaker 2>actually go in somewhere to vote.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, So this one's a referendum. We're all going to

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<v Speaker 3>have to go to the polls on the fourteenth of

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<v Speaker 3>October to answer a specific question. What is that question?

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<v Speaker 2>So it's a yes or no question. Those are the

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<v Speaker 2>only two answers that you can give to the following statement,

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<v Speaker 2>and I quote a proposed law to alter the Constitution

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<v Speaker 2>to recognize the first peoples of Australia by establishing an

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<v Speaker 2>Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voice. Do you approve this

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<v Speaker 2>proposed alteration? So that is what you're going to see

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<v Speaker 2>when you go to vote in October, and you're actually

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<v Speaker 2>going to be asked to physically write down the answer

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<v Speaker 2>of yes or no on that.

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<v Speaker 3>Ballance as inspel the word y yes or so you'll.

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<v Speaker 2>Read that question and you will have the opportunity to

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<v Speaker 2>either say yes, I accept that or no, I reject that.

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<v Speaker 2>And that is how the referendum will go down.

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<v Speaker 3>I remember we were together on election night in May

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<v Speaker 3>of last year and Anthony Alberinezi, when he was giving

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<v Speaker 3>his speech that said, you know, I'm the new Prime Minister,

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<v Speaker 3>committed to doing this referendum as one of his first promises.

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<v Speaker 2>The first promise. It was the first thing after he

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<v Speaker 2>got elected that he said he would die.

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<v Speaker 3>It wasn't something that he made up though, no where

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<v Speaker 3>exactly did it come from.

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<v Speaker 2>So this request for an Indigenous voice to Parliament came

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<v Speaker 2>from what's called the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and

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<v Speaker 2>that was a statement that was delivered and endorsed by

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<v Speaker 2>two hundred and fifty First Nations leaders in May of

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<v Speaker 2>twenty seventeen. The Ulurus Statement outlined the path forward for

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<v Speaker 2>recognizing First Nations people in the Constitution and it's essentially

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<v Speaker 2>broken up into three requests. So the first request was

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<v Speaker 2>to implement a voice to Parliament, and that is of

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<v Speaker 2>course the stage there weren't now. It then asked to

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<v Speaker 2>establish a Macarata Commission and that would then involve both

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<v Speaker 2>a treaty and a truth telling process. And these requests

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<v Speaker 2>that were made in the Ullu Statement from the Heart

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<v Speaker 2>were designed to be implemented in order or sequentially. So

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<v Speaker 2>the idea was that the Voice would come first, then

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<v Speaker 2>the Macarata Commission, and so that's why the government is

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<v Speaker 2>trying really hard to implement this voice before going to

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<v Speaker 2>the next steps.

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<v Speaker 3>And when you're talking about the voice, what does the

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<v Speaker 3>voice itself actually look like.

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<v Speaker 2>So we heard from the Minister for Indigenous Australians, Linda Bernie,

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<v Speaker 2>earlier this year about what the government could tell us

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<v Speaker 2>around how that voice would look in practice. We did

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<v Speaker 2>do a full episode at the time. It's called an

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<v Speaker 2>Update on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, so I'll throw

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<v Speaker 2>linked to that in the show notes, but just to

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<v Speaker 2>summon up really quickly now, Linda Bernie said that the

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<v Speaker 2>Voice would be an independent representative advisory body chosen by

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<v Speaker 2>local communities. For local communities, she said that there would

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<v Speaker 2>be representatives for every state and territory, the Torres Strait

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<v Speaker 2>Islands and specific remote communities. She also said that the

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<v Speaker 2>Voice would be gender balance and that it would include

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<v Speaker 2>the views of young people. She said that there were

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<v Speaker 2>four key priority areas for the Voice, so those were health, education, jobs,

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<v Speaker 2>and housing. So in the mind of the government, these

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<v Speaker 2>are the areas that they would like if this referendums

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<v Speaker 2>seeds the voice to really be focusing on after it's

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<v Speaker 2>set up.

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<v Speaker 3>So throughout the year we've heard from the government and

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<v Speaker 3>also the opposition and the whole cast of characters inside

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<v Speaker 3>Parliament House, and I don't want to put too much

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<v Speaker 3>emphasis on the positions they're all taking because at the

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<v Speaker 3>end of the day, you and I have as much

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<v Speaker 3>of a say as any member of Parliament in this referendum.

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<v Speaker 3>We get one vote each.

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<v Speaker 2>As powerful as the Prime.

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<v Speaker 3>Minister, right exactly. But in saying that, it's good to

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<v Speaker 3>understand where political parties are sitting give me a sense

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<v Speaker 3>of their positions.

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<v Speaker 2>So we'll start with the Labor Party, who are of

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<v Speaker 2>course in government in this country, so they are in

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<v Speaker 2>favor of the Voice. As I said, it was Prime

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<v Speaker 2>Minister Anthony Albanesi's first commitment upon winning the election, and

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<v Speaker 2>you could almost call it a defining feature of his

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<v Speaker 2>prime ministership, like he has very much associated his government

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<v Speaker 2>with a successful referendum, so there is a lot on

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<v Speaker 2>the line for his government here. He said things like

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<v Speaker 2>it's an inspiring and unifying Australian moment. We heard from

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<v Speaker 2>him yesterday when he launched it in Adelaide. The government

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<v Speaker 2>is absolutely supporting a Voice to Parliament. The Greens, who

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<v Speaker 2>sit further to the left of Labor, are also in

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<v Speaker 2>favor of the voice, and they've said that it's an

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<v Speaker 2>important opportunity for the country to show its support for

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<v Speaker 2>progress for First Nations people. I think it's important to

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<v Speaker 2>note that somebody who sat with the Greens was a

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<v Speaker 2>party member of the Senator Lydia Thorpe. She actually left

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<v Speaker 2>the party over their position on the voice. She now

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<v Speaker 2>sits on the cross bench and has been quite vocal

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<v Speaker 2>in the fact that she will be voting no. Alongside

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<v Speaker 2>her in that no camp is the opposition. So the

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<v Speaker 2>Liberal Party, led by Peter Dudden, the Liberal Party has

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<v Speaker 2>said that they don't believe that a Voice to Parliament

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<v Speaker 2>will quote resolve the issues on the ground in Indigenous communities.

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<v Speaker 2>I will just add a caveat there that there are

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<v Speaker 2>some Liberal Party members who will be voting yes and

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<v Speaker 2>have been quite explicit in recognizing that, but ultimately the

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<v Speaker 2>party is taking the position of voting no. The Nationals,

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<v Speaker 2>who are in coalition with the Liberal Party also oppose

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<v Speaker 2>the voice, and they've said that they don't believe that

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<v Speaker 2>this will genuinely close the gap between Indigenous and non

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<v Speaker 2>Indigenous people. So I mean that's a fairly rudimentary and

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<v Speaker 2>quick overview, but that's where we understand the political parties

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<v Speaker 2>to lie on the spectrum of yes to know. And

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<v Speaker 2>there are lots of reasons that we won't get into now,

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<v Speaker 2>and we'll hear that from First Nations people themselves about

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<v Speaker 2>the reasons for and against the voice.

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<v Speaker 3>So let's move away from Canberra then and look at

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<v Speaker 3>how the entire country is feeling, or at least how

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<v Speaker 3>we think the entire country is feeling. There's been some

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<v Speaker 3>polls out. What are they telling us about attitudes towards

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<v Speaker 3>the referendum.

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<v Speaker 2>There's been a fair bit of polling and I think

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<v Speaker 2>that we can expect it to ramp up and probably

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<v Speaker 2>change a bit as we head closer and closer towards

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<v Speaker 2>that October date. But the latest poll that was published

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<v Speaker 2>widely was an essential poll, so that's published by The Guardian,

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<v Speaker 2>that found that forty seven percent of respondents intended to

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<v Speaker 2>vote no, forty three percent of respondents intended to vote yes,

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<v Speaker 2>and ten percent at the time was still undecided.

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<v Speaker 3>That's across Australia.

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<v Speaker 2>But another thing worth looking at in this data, I

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<v Speaker 2>think is how the polling looks state by state because

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<v Speaker 2>of that double majority point I said before, So at

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<v Speaker 2>the moment, according to that same essential poll, the only

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<v Speaker 2>state where the yes vote is ahead of the No

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<v Speaker 2>vote is in Victoria. The closest margin after that is

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<v Speaker 2>South Australia, where the No vote has forty eight percent

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<v Speaker 2>and the Yes campaign has forty five percent.

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<v Speaker 3>And we've done some of our own polling on this

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<v Speaker 3>question as well.

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<v Speaker 2>We have, but I mean again, I'm sorry that this

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<v Speaker 2>whole podcast seems to be caveats, but we speak to

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<v Speaker 2>a very specific audience. We are trying to provide a

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<v Speaker 2>platform for young Australians to feel like their voices and

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<v Speaker 2>their opinions can be heard. But that means that there

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<v Speaker 2>is going to be an overrepresentation of the youth voting block,

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<v Speaker 2>and I think we just need to put that there

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<v Speaker 2>before we continue. But at the time of recording, we

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<v Speaker 2>had over one thousand people who had responded. Eighty three

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<v Speaker 2>percent of them said that they intended to vote yes.

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<v Speaker 2>Sixteen point seven percent said that they intended to vote no. Interestingly,

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<v Speaker 2>when you compare those figures to what I'm about to say,

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<v Speaker 2>Fifty one percent said that they thought the referendum would succeed,

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<v Speaker 2>but forty nine percent of them said that it would fail. Interesting,

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<v Speaker 2>eighty one percent said that they felt they had enough

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<v Speaker 2>information to make an informed vote, one nineteen percent said

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<v Speaker 2>that they didn't. And if you are part of that

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<v Speaker 2>nineteen percent and you're listening today, don't worry. We will

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<v Speaker 2>absolutely be giving you as much information as we can

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<v Speaker 2>in the lead up to this vote, because the best

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<v Speaker 2>vote is an informed vote, and will endeavor to bring

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<v Speaker 2>you podcasts and videos and content as much as we

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<v Speaker 2>can on this so that you feel really confident when

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<v Speaker 2>you have to go vote on the fourteenth of October.

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<v Speaker 3>Thanks so much for listening to the Daily Os and

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<v Speaker 3>we would love to know your thoughts on the Voice

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<v Speaker 3>to Parliament. That poll is still live, there's a link

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<v Speaker 3>in the show notes and we'd love to hear from you.

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<v Speaker 3>We'll be back again tomorrow. Until then, have a great day.