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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Sarah Collard, Josh Butler and Lorena Allam

Indigenous voice: no campaign event reinforced ‘racist stereotypes’, watchdog says

Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce, former Labor minister Gary Johns, broadcaster Alan Jones and One Nation leader Pauline Hanson appeared at the no campaign event in Tamworth on Friday.
Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce, former Labor minister Gary Johns, broadcaster Alan Jones and One Nation leader Pauline Hanson appeared at the no campaign event in Tamworth on Friday. Photograph: Tom Plevey/The Guardian

Controversial comments made at a no campaign against the voice event “reinforce racist stereotypes and inflict harm”, says the race discrimination commissioner, who has joined a wave of criticism prompted by the meeting.

At a leading no campaign event in Tamworth on Friday, no organisation leader Gary Johns suggested that “intermarrying” between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people was proof reconciliation had been achieved.

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