“My whole ethos is to welcome debate,” Kerry O’Brien says. “We are in a democracy and healthy debate is central to a healthy democracy. I just wish this debate could take place based in fact and not emotion, and not in misinformation, and not in scare tactics.”
The former ABC journalist, who has co-authored a new book designed to explain in simple terms what the Indigenous voice to parliament is all about, says a poll showing a slip in support for the voice could be a sign there has been more attention paid to the “noise” and “confusion” being sown by its opponents than to the facts.
