00:00 It's tools down and bottoms up at the Anglevale Tavern in Adelaide's north.
00:07 These outer suburbanites are saying yes to a beer, but a resounding no to the voice.
00:12 I've heard basically nothing about it.
00:14 I hear it all the time on the news about voting yes, but what are you voting yes for?
00:18 They're confused about the whole matter, so I think they'll probably be voting no for
00:21 that reason because they're not sure.
00:23 In the pub, yes supporters are hard to find.
00:26 It's dividing us as First Nations people with a lot of fellas saying yes, a lot of fellas
00:31 saying no, and it's just dividing us even more and really I'm sick to death of hearing
00:39 about it.
00:40 It's being made to feel like you've done something wrong when you haven't is probably the major
00:44 thing there.
00:45 Australia's rapidly expanding outer suburbs house 20% of the country's population.
00:52 Voting in these areas usually follows household income. The lower it is, the stronger the
00:57 vote for Labor.
00:59 But polling shows economic issues such as employment and cost of living are the key
01:04 ones in these electorates.
01:06 And that makes things harder for the yes campaign.
01:09 Demographer John Black says outer suburban voters aren't receptive to proposals about
01:14 social change when they're so worried about petrol prices and interest rates.
01:19 It's the wrong time to take a position on a social issue such as this when people are
01:27 focused on their own needs. It's just simply not resonating with them and I think they're
01:33 coming to resent it.
01:34 On Brisbane's outskirts, some voters are expressing support.
01:38 Most of my friends around me are yes voters.
01:40 It's time to change, recognise Indigenous culture.
01:44 But many people are an emphatic no.
01:46 I find it a degree of apartheid, I find it discriminatory and I find it appalling that
01:53 the government has created a massive split in society.
01:56 All of my friends, and of course most of them are my age group which is older, I have nobody
02:01 that I know voting yes.
02:03 VU's the yes campaign is running out of time to change.
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