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Sundays ‘Yes’ walkers. Photo Julie Ryan.

Yes Supporters from Lismore, Tweed, Byron, Mulumbimby, Ballina and Lennox Head gathered on Sunday to walk for ‘Yes’.

The walk was in the spirit of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, echoing the sentiment ‘Walk with Us’.

The local YES campaigns have another walk organised for Brunswick Heads on Sunday 10 September at 8am and on Thursday 7 September they will be hosting a chat on Voice to Parliament with Fiona McGill from the Sunshine Coast Reconciliation group at the Courthouse Hotel at 7pm.

Free. All welcome.

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