Indigenous leaders warn that ‘hate is raining down on us’ as voice campaign ramps up

Minister for Indigenous Australians, Linda Burney, asks nation to ‘lean on the wheel of history and give it a push’

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Racism is taking its toll on Aboriginal communities during the voice debate, “and it is going to get tougher”, the minister for Indigenous Australians, Linda Burney, has said at a meeting of the government’s referendum advisory group at Uluru on Friday.

“This is going to be a difficult campaign. It’s one of the reasons that we’ve set aside $10m in the most recent budget for mental health, particularly for Aboriginal people, distributed through the Aboriginal community-controlled health organisations for that very reason,” Burney said.

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