00:00 Tasmania has largely been the forgotten state as part of the voice debate to this point,
00:06 but that's changed rapidly. The no campaign launched here in Hobart last night with Warren
00:11 Mundine and Senator Price both speaking out against the voice to Parliament. And then
00:17 today, as you said, on the first full day of campaigning, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
00:21 is at both ends of the state. It's a bit hard to know where everything sits in Tasmania
00:26 at the moment. The polling we've seen has had relatively small sample sizes, but everything
00:31 indicates that it's going to be a pretty close run thing here. Of course, the referendum
00:36 needs a double majority to succeed. So that's a majority of votes in total, and then a majority
00:42 of the states. So four states need to support that. That makes Tasmania really key. And
00:48 as we said, the north and northwest are going to be some of those key areas as we look towards
00:54 where the votes going to succeed or not. In Tasmania, there's a lot of prominent Aboriginal
00:59 campaigners speaking out against the voice. It's definitely split here. The Tasmanian
01:04 Aboriginal Centre is against it, says the focus should be on treaty instead. And that's
01:10 something that's really dominated debate here and we can expect to hear more of. So as I
01:15 said, it's a really heated debate at the moment. There's no consensus and we're starting to
01:20 see lots of focus here. So Anthony Albanese was asked multiple times about the voice to
01:26 parliament today and particularly the comments of the no campaigners. He says that he's going
01:32 to have a positive campaign throughout Australia. He's really confident that it's going to succeed
01:37 nationally and in Tasmania. He spoke out about how a majority of business leaders have come
01:43 out in support of this, how all the premiers and chief ministers are in support of a voice,
01:48 including Tasmania's premier, Jeremy Rockleaf. He then also got asked specifically about
01:54 the Tasmanian situation and said, although he wouldn't go into a lot of detail about
01:59 that, he did talk about how 80% of Indigenous organisations across the country are in support.
02:05 Here's a little bit more of what he had to say.
02:08 I'm very positive about how the vote will go in Tasmania and throughout the country.
02:14 I, after this, will be in Launceston with some of my Senate colleagues and Bridget Archer,
02:20 the member for Bass, will be there campaigning and advocating for a yes vote and four of
02:27 the five federal members here in Tasmania across the spectrum and independent, liberal
02:34 and Labor members will all be campaigning for yes.
02:37 This is a very clear and simple proposition. This is a proposition to recognise First Nations
02:45 people in our Constitution and listen to them about matters that affect their lives so as
02:51 to get better results. That is what this is about. It's an opportunity to lift the whole
02:57 nation up. It should be a moment of national unity and I'm very pleased that every premier
03:03 and chief minister is supporting a yes vote as well as all of the faith groups, all of
03:11 the sporting codes, the business community, the trade union movement and other non-government
03:18 organisations and charities are all supporting a yes vote because 122 years after Federation,
03:26 if not now, when?
03:28 Anthony Albanese there and as he said he'll be in Launceston later this afternoon and
03:33 we expect Linda Burney to be in Devonport tomorrow as well. So there's lots of focus
03:38 on Tasmania as a key state for this referendum and we'll wait and see but there'll be lots
03:43 more visits to come in the lead up to October 14.
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