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Laura Tingle

The referendum takes me back to a grim moment 30 years ago

A No vote will change the way we see ourselves, and send the most unloving of messages to Indigenous Australians.

“We are a much unloved people”, Noel Pearson said when he delivered the first of his Boyer Lectures 12 months ago.

“We are perhaps the ethnic group Australians feel least connected to. We are not popular, and we are not personally known to many Australians. Few have met us and a small minority count us as friends.”

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Laura Tingle is chief political correspondent for the ABC's 7.30 program. She is the staff-elected director of the ABC. Connect with Laura on Twitter.

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