Advocacy group Together, Yes is holding information sessions to help people hold conversations in support of the Indigenous voice
In the dim ballroom of the Cairns Hilton, Stan Leroy, a Jirrbal man is speaking with urgency about the future of his people.
, which aims to empower voters to host kitchen table conversations within their own communities to discuss the proposed constitutional change.through a 90-minute powerpoints presentation. If you want to see change, it’s not enough to vote yes yourself – you have to bring others along too., who pioneered the kitchen table conversations model of civic engagement in Victoria in the 1990s.
Diane Forsyth asks a question about how to campaign for a yes vote at the Together, Yes information session in Cairns.“The strength of the yes campaign is that it is not run by the politicians,” Crooks says.
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