Minister for Indigenous Australians claims no campaign’s aim is to ‘polarise, to sow division’ and to ‘mislead’
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The Indigenous Australians minister, Linda Burney, is concerned about “fairly unsavoury things” opponents to the Indigenous voice have aired during the referendum campaign as the government engages with mental health organisations to support Aboriginal people hurt by the debate.
Burney accused the main no campaign of seeking to mislead voters and the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, of “bullyboy tactics” as she pleaded with the public to carefully consider their ballot.
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