When asked about the Voice referendum, Aboriginal performance artist and blogger, Briggs, summed it up pretty concisely: ‘Why would you vote “No”? We’re already in “No”!’
This is what ‘No’ looks like. Incarceration through the roof, with one in three of all prisoners Aboriginal. Wasted allocations for Aboriginal housing. Chronic health and nutritional issues with three times the diabetes rate of non-Aboriginal Australians. A life expectancy ten years less than other Australians.
Having a say on all these matters from the people most affected can dramatically improve outcomes.
If voting ‘No’ just means more of the same, surely we can do better than this?
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
