Newsroom edition: the division driving the no campaign - Categories Via RSS |
- News
- Publication Date |
- Jul 13, 2023
- Episode Duration |
- 00:21:58
As we get closer to a vote on the Indigenous voice to parliament, the no campaign has gone on the attack. Peter Dutton has accused the Indigenous affairs minister, Linda Burney, of purposefully misleading the public and labelled the yes campaign a concern of inner-city ‘elites’. Burney lashed out at the no campaign for importing Trump-style politics to Australia. And this week, Guardian Australia revealed the no campaign is working with companies including a US-headquartered marketing and fundraising firm that aims to help Christian nonprofit ministries ‘fulfill their mission’. Gabrielle Jackson speaks to editor-in-chief Lenore Taylor and head of news Mike Ticher about if this politics of division will work, and what the yes campaign can do to combat it