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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Lorena Allam Indigenous affairs editor

Don’t panic? How the Indigenous voice to parliament is faring four months out

The minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney and members of the referendum engagement group speak to the media at Parliament House in Canberra
Yes campaigners say they are looking forward to moving the conversation out of Canberra and ‘into the community where it belongs’. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Polls showing a decline in support for an Indigenous voice to parliament have prompted a lot of public soul searching this week among observers. There have variously been calls for the vote to be postponed, for the question to be amended, for the yes campaign to step it up.

Amazing what anxiety a handful of numbers can invoke.

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