Central Australia’s peak organisation representing local Indigenous people spent more than half a million dollars promoting the Voice.
In the lead-up to the referendum, the Central Land Council spent $602,635 to fund a Voice information team manned by three full-time staff and two casuals.
“Our executive committee and council endorsed forming a small team to inform communities about the Voice and the referendum to support informed voting,” he said on Friday. Under questioning by senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Mr Turner said the CLC sent out a direction to staff to not work on polling booths.
But Labor senator Louise Pratt said she felt “uncomfortable” about holding the CLC to account on what staff do when they take official leave.The CLC appeared before the senate estimates alongside the Tiwi Land Council, Anindilyakwa Land Council and Northern Land Council.
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