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"The campaign to sink the Voice has instructed volunteers to use fear and doubt
rather than facts to trump arguments used by the Yes camp.
In an online training session, the national campaigning chief for leading No
activist group Advance, Chris Inglis, detailed the anti-Voice movement’s core
strategy of playing on voters’ emotions.
Inglis instructed volunteers not to identify themselves upfront as No
campaigners as they make hundreds of thousands of calls to persuadable voters,
but instead to raise reports of financial compensation to Indigenous
Australians if the Voice referendum were to succeed.
“When reason and emotion collide, emotion always wins. Always wins,” he said as
he displayed the same quote from US psychology professor Drew Westen, author of
The Political Brain.
The No case is now leading in several national polls ahead of the October 14
referendum. The latest RPM poll, published on Monday, shows support for the
Indigenous Voice slumping to 43 per cent, with voter sentiment swinging against
the constitutional amendment in every state except Tasmania.
Inglis explained at the meeting on Monday, August 28, that the No camp’s job
was to make people suspicious of the Voice and its backers, while the Yes
campaign continued to cite academic arguments and documents such as the Uluru
Statement."
Via
Guardian Australia.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
