Voice referendum: who’s behind the yes and no campaigns and how do they plan to convince Australia?

‘We’re asking Australians to start a yarn,’ Prof Megan Davis says. Find out more about the yes and no campaigns in the referendum for an Indigenous voice to parliament. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

This week has been declared the “national week of action” on an Indigenous voice to parliament with community barbecues, letterdrops and online “yarning circles”. Multiparty and multi-faith forums are being planned in a show of wide support for the vote, now expected to be held in October.

Until now, the voice has been a “Canberra” story: dominated by and about politicians. The yes campaigners have often said they didn’t want it to be that way. The Uluru statement from the heart, they say, is addressed to the Australian people.