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By John Töns, published 11/10/2023I will be voting YES. My reason for voting yes is that the Voice enshrines in the constitution a principle that does not just apply to indigenous Australians but applies to all of us.
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I just have to mention this. I was to go to Mudgee next Tuesday for an initial talk with the Warrabinga-Wiradjuri group concerning preliminary access onto a Mudgee tenement we were granted . Then we got a call asking who they were to invoice. We said, for what? They said, ‘sitting fees’ for six people at $700 a head, plus travel (........), plus the cost of the ............meeting room and we think plus the costs of their WA native heritage solicitor .............. who was flying over. Going forward they wanted $10K for legals on a pro forma agreement that stipulated $10K be paid to them for every year we held the tenement. Then if we wanted to actually do any actual geological work we had to get a native title heritage report done ($20K) and then they would let us know what their costs would be for watching us explore.