The respected Indigenous leader has painted a bleak picture of the fate awaiting regional communities should the Voice fail, saying the referendum was Australia's 'last chance' to improve the lives of those in remote towns.
Indigenous leader Noel Pearson says he fears remote Aboriginal communities will be"obliterated" if the Voice referendum fails.
Respected Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has painted a bleak picture of the fate awaiting regional communities should the Voice fail, saying the referendum was Australia's"last chance" to improve the lives of those in remote towns. Picture: Liam Kidston “The purpose of looking after your family and going to work and making sure that the children are the priority, making sure they attend school, all of those things that used to be par for the course when I was growing up, all those things are very hard now.
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