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Pearson urges voice dissenters to be smart'

Karvelas also asks Pearson about the concerns that are coming from the left, including Indigenous affairs spokesperson for the Greens, Lidia Thorpe, who will be calling for treaty before voice at the Invasion Day rally.

And when you have a breakthrough response, a breakthrough response like constitutional recognition, you've got to grab it. You've got to switch from protest to grabbing the opportunity.

... And I believe that a full response to the Uluru statement will achieve actual real reconciliation. We're at a point in our history where the protest has achieved the result we desire. And, and so we've got to be smart about it.

This this year is the most important here in the past 235. That's my assertion. This is the most important year and and this referendum is the most important question concerning Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians since the first fleet.

We've got to understand what is at stake, and that is the chance for reconciliation and if the referendum is kiboshed through game play and spoiling game by the opposition, we will lose the opportunity forever.