‘If not now, when?’: Thomas Mayo pleads with voters not to delay Indigenous voice for future generations

Leading yes campaigner questions how many lives will be ‘lost or cut short’ in the meantime if referendum does not succeed

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The leading yes campaigner Thomas Mayo says problems facing Indigenous Australians cannot be fixed without a mechanism like the voice to parliament and has pleaded with voters to back the referendum rather than delaying the vital reform to future generations.

Mayo called the voice “the moral and logical thing” for Australians to support, saying it was inevitable that something like the advisory body would need to be set up at some point.

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