Indigenous man condemns voice no campaign leaders for wrongly using his image

Stewart Lingiari says he’s ‘humiliated’ after Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine misidentify him as grandson of land rights leader Vincent Lingiari to promote no campaign

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An Indigenous man incorrectly identified by the voice referendum no campaign as “Vincent Lingiari’s grandson” says he is not related to the land rights leader and feels “humiliated” by the way his image has been used.

No voice leader Warren Mundine has stood by his campaign’s claims, claiming that Stewart Lingiari had described himself as Vincent’s grandson in a “cultural kinship” sense, rather than directly.

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