After many discussions I am voting no as it is very divisive and every Australian should get one vote.
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At pivotal times like these for societal change I feel pride in my native country’s leadership. Foremost among New Zealand’s global agenda setting was its 1893 act of becoming the first self-governing country to grant the vote to all adult women.
“The Voice: I reckon this thing is worth a shot"
Response: Sorry mate but ‘a shot’ isn’t good enough. You want to amend the nations constitution to enshrine an unknown entity that you cannot explain with any clarity or evidence, or provide any proof of how it will supposedly “fix” broken indigenous disadvantage. Yes or No.
I have asked myself these questions about the Referendum Q. Were the British telling the truth when they first arrived and declared that the land was ''terra nullius," had no settlers. A. Clearly it was a lie as they soon met settlers, the descendants of 60,000 years of settlement.  I've been following this issue since The Uluru Statement of the Heart, and can find absolutely no reason to not vote Yes in the referendum, it's about time we listened to the first nations people and acted on their advice.
Have you discussed the Voice with friends/family/ workmates? How did that go?
I have discussed the Voice with friends. It went well. I am voting Yes and I found that a couple of people were unsure and I was able to talk them through why I thought it was a worthy idea to support. I think they got it!  For five years I have spoken on the Voice and promoted the Voice. … I said to Mim Hook [ABC Gippsland] in an interview more than a month ago was that we must firstly listen to our local Indigenous people.
 Late last year I joined 38 mayors from across Australia to sign a Joint Statement of Mayors in support of constitutional recognition through an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. Forty-one mayors have now signed the statement.
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