National party ‘out of touch’ with regional Australia on Indigenous voice, campaigner says

Thomas Mayor has spent 18 months travelling around the country speaking about the Uluru statement and says rural people agree with it

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A key campaigner for the yes vote says the National party is out of touch" with regional Australia after the party announced it would not support a referendum on the Indigenous voice to parliament.

The Torres Strait Islander man Thomas Mayor spent 18 months travelling around Australia speaking to Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people about the Uluru statement and the proposal for a voice, addressing large crowds in cities and small groups in country halls.

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