High-profile Aboriginal leaders voting Yes in next month's Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum have used a community forum in Perth to call on supporters to ramp up their campaign.
"You are endorsing a status quo that has failed and you are endorsing the further misuse and bad spend of billions of dollars of taxpayers money."
"[In] Western Australia it's a marginal seat campaign here, that's the reality now — so anyone and everyone needs to be spoken to," Mr Wyatt said.Yes23 campaigner Noel Pearson appeared optimistic and said the best way to try and convince undecided voters was to have one-on-one conversations."I want you to phone people, I want you to be at the railway station and the shopping centres … we can't muck about," he told the event.
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