Live4Life is proud to offer its support for the YES campaign.
Image Description: Live4Life Staff supporting the VOTE YES Campaign with YES Posters and YES Badges. The YES campaign brand has been created in collaboration with Birra Gubbi artist Lara Watson incorporated. This campaign brand motif is copyright artwork.
On Saturday, Australians will have their say in a referendum about whether to change the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing a body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.
Youth Live4Life is proud to offer its support for the YES campaign.
Youth Live4Life has taken the opportunity to reflect on our vision that all rural communities across Australia are empowered to support, improve, and invest in young people’s mental health and reduce suicide.
We have also listened to the invitation contained in the Uluru Statement from the Heart from the largest consensus of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in Australian history for a constitutionally-enshrined Voice to Parliament.
A Voice to Parliament will help inform policy and legal decisions that impact the lives of Indigenous communities. It offers an unprecedented opportunity for those communities to be seen and heard. It offers a sense of hope, healing and wellbeing.
Being seen and heard is very much at the heart of our values. Evidence tells us that being seen and heard leads to better mental health outcomes.
Youth Live4Life is proud to walk together with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in a movement which invites every Australian to honour the work of generations past, strive for the benefit of generations future, and imagine a more just, equitable and reconciled country for all.
We declare our support for the YES case in the referendum. You can read the Youth Live4Life Statement on the Voice to Parliament here: https://www.live4life.org.au/latest-news/live4life-voice-statement-yes
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