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The campaigns for and against a voice to parliament are ramping up with pamphlets finalised and ready to be sent out. Michael Mansell from the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania is against the proposal. He says the referendum should be abandoned to avoid what he describes as social division.

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00:00 This is unlike any other referendum in the sense that the content is unclear.
00:09 And so instead of people focusing on the content, they're turning against the people on the
00:17 other side.
00:18 No one knows what exactly the advisory body can and can't do.
00:24 The Prime Minister should have legislated in advance, and he can still do that.
00:31 Then everybody would know via the legislation the limitations and the extent of the ability
00:39 of the advisory body to inform policy.
00:43 But at the moment, people are making decisions on the run, and you can see that the polls
00:50 are going down and down in the wrong way for the Yes campaign.
00:53 And I think that's mostly because people are unsure.
00:58 They're not against Aboriginal advancement.
01:00 They are not racists.
01:02 I think people are fearful that putting something in the Constitution that they don't understand
01:08 is something that they're nervous about.
01:09 [ Silence ]
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