Tom Calma says politicians deliberately ‘peddling misinformation’ on Indigenous voice

Indigenous voice to parliament campaigner Professor Tom Calma has lashed out at politicians who ‘should know that what they’re saying is not accurate’. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Prominent Indigenous voice campaigner and senior Australian of the Year, Professor Tom Calma, has lashed out at politicians for deliberately “peddling misinformation” about the referendum, saying they “should know better, if they’ve got a conscience” than to “mislead” voters.

Calma, a Kungarakan man from the Northern Territory, will address the issue of misinformation about the Indigenous voice to parliament in the annual Reconciliation lecture on Thursday evening in Canberra.