An Aboriginal legal service is providing regional Indigenous communities with information about the Voice to Parliament due to what it says is a lack of government engagement.
Indigenous advocates say information about the Voice and how it will affect people living in remote parts of the state is not reaching those who need it.
The situation has prompted the Aboriginal Family Legal Service of Western Australia (AFLSWA) to launch a campaign to help inform Aboriginal people living in remote parts of the state.
AFLSWA chief executive Corina Martin said the service had provided information packs to its staff across WA to help answer questions they had been receiving from locals about the Voice.
The organisation is also creating Indigenous language radio packages to broadcast information about the referendum to more isolated communities.
While the AFLSWA supports a Voice to Parliament, Ms Martin said the broadcasts were about providing people with information to help them make an informed decision.
"We're working with the Aboriginal Interpreting Services to do some radio on the Voice so people can make a decision in regards to whether they want to vote for it, or against it," she said.
"We're hoping it will go onto the local radios, and particularly local Aboriginal radio stations that service the communities."
The radio information will be recorded in seven local languages and broadcast across the state from Kalgoorlie to Kununurra in the coming months.
The Mulgyin Jaru-Kitja and Gooniyandi woman said after years of being excluded, the Voice offered a chance for Indigenous inclusion, but the federal government needed to do more to engage remote communities.
"That's a problem with anything to do with Aboriginal people, we are the last lot to get information on ourselves," she said.
"These communities need to be included.
"I think the government should at least send some people out to speak to people, but they have to be with interpreters."
'Culturally accessible'
The initiative has been welcomed by Aboriginal communities on the Ngaanyatjarra lands, 1,700 kilometres east of Perth.
Ngaanyatjarra Media radio coordinator Poppy Cullen said providing information about the Voice in a way that was culturally accessible would help.
"It's kind of a complicated thing to comprehend and the more often people hear it, the more they can grasp it, and relate it to their own life," she said.
"I think having an audio description would be very useful for these people because they're oral communicators.
"We'd probably broadcast it … once a day, or once every few days, to make sure it's really the message getting out there."
The lack of communication was raised last month by Aboriginal communities across the northern Goldfields and Northern Territory, where some people were unaware a referendum had been called.
Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney said an information campaign to inform remote communities would be launched by the government later this month.
The minister was also expected to visit regional WA, including the Goldfields, to discuss the referendum in July.
Calls to meet 'face to face'
Eastern Goldfields First Nations Council chairman Fran Martin said the lack of consultation was yet another case of Aboriginal people being forgotten.
"We all miss out here for some strange reason, they don't want to come to Kalgoorlie or visit the lands," he said.
"They don't mind travelling up to the Kimberleys and the coastal communities, but they don't want to come inland."
State Liberal MP for O'Connor, Rick Wilson, who has confirmed he will oppose the referendum, said he often met with Goldfield's community leaders in Canberra and visited Indigenous communities in his electorate to discuss the Voice.
But Mr Martin said he had not spoken to Mr Wilson since the referendum was announced, and urged politicians to come and meet with the community.
"People here don't really know what the Voice is all about, how it's going to be set up, how it's going to be established, and who's going to be on it," he said.
"As First Nations people, we like to talk to people face-to-face, and I think in the first instance, there should be this conversation happening face-to-face with the feds or with the ministers."
