The battle over the Indigenous voice to parliament looks different in Tasmania than anywhere else in Australia. For one thing, the polls show the yes campaign still in the lead – the only state where that has been the case for the past month and more. Perhaps not coincidentally, it is also the only state where none of the main representatives of the political parties are backing no – from the premier, Jeremy Rockliff, and the prominent Liberal MP Bridget Archer through to Labor, the Greens and the two senators from the Jacqui Lambie Network.
And then there is the persistent myth that haunts Tasmanian Aboriginal people – that they no longer exist.
