Here are five recent own goals from Yes camp

Advocates for the race-based referendum are determined to inject racial politics into our founding document. These are some of their most recent blunders and dodgy tactics.

At some point the Yes camp for the race-based referendum will tire of kicking own goals. Thankfully, they are not there yet.

In recent weeks we’ve witnessed increasingly desperate race-baiting, irrational emoting and downright dodgy tactics from those determined to inject racial politics into our founding document.

Here are five recent own goals from Voice advocates:

1. Yes campaigner Noel Pearson’s National Press Club speech had plenty of incoherent motherhood statements but it was the incitement of racial resentment that was truly shameful. “Are you with the mob from the UK?” he asked migrants.

Yes campaigner Noel Pearson. Picture: Tertius Pickard

“Are you kind of honorary settlers? Because some of you are the wrong colour.”

Here are a couple of home truths for Pearson from a migrant of colour; firstly most migrate here for the abundant opportunity and peaceful, lawful society created by British colonisation.

Secondly, don’t be surprised when a great many migrants reject your race essentialism when you seek special privileges for some citizens based solely on how long some of their ancestors were in Australia.

2. Footage of Australian National University Emeritus Professor Denise Ferris, clad in Yes23 merchandise, spitting at an ideological opponent who was heckling her quickly went viral. Though the academic has sought to justify her antics, there can be no excuse for spitting; it’s gross, it’s vile and it’s another own goal for the Yes advocates.

3. The Australian Electoral Commission has belatedly criticised the Yes23 campaign for misleading signage at polling centres.

Yes23’s signs feature white lettering on purple background that looks almost identical to the official AEC signage.

4. The official London launch of the Yes23 campaign began with a drag queen draped in the Australian and Aboriginal flags slaughtering John Farnham’s You’re the Voice.

A drag queen at the Yes23 campaign’s London launch. Picture: Danielle Gusmaroli

A perfect representation of how the Yes camp is out of touch and divorced from reality.

5. Watch out, folks, Misinfo Magda is making lists! Yes enthusiast Magda Szubanski asked her followers to “document any misinformation, defamation and lies” of the No side for “future reference”.

Rich coming from the woman who accused the former PM’s wife, Jenny Morrison, of sending a secret message to white supremacists via the OK hand symbol.