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If you’re racist, vote no. It’s that simple.

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Voting no doesn’t make you racist. Voting no means you do not support the proposed change to the Constitution.

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…Change to the constitution to allow first peoples more say over things that directly affect them via establishing a representative body.

Voting no means that you are against the above. Voting yes means you’re for it.

If you’re against it, it does feel quite racist as you’re voting not to have an indigenous voice enshrined in our constitution. Why not let them have a fair go?

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The representative body can be established without a change to the Constitution.

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It literally does. By voting no you’re saying you do not believe there should be a council that advises on first people’s affairs. So either;

  • you think we’ve done a cracker of a job without them so far in relation to policies that affected them
  • you think they shouldn’t have a say in laws that may negatively affect them
  • you’ve listened to one of various no campaign myths that has been debunked and are worried about paying more tax,or being negatively affected by this somehow.
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The representative body can be established without a change to the Constitution.

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Just to clarify, did you miss an “n’t” in there?

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God damn autocorrect. You are correct.

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