460 Australian directors join together for new ‘Directors for The Voice’ campaign via The Monkeys
460 Australian directors from organisations large and small have joined together in a ‘Directors for the Voice’ campaign via The Monkeys, part of Accenture Song, as they stand with the majority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to support the Voice ahead of the 2023 referendum later this year.
Launched today, the campaign comprises full page advertisements in the Australian Financial Review, The Australian, metropolitan mastheads and on social media and is being amplified through earned media editorial, interviews, op-eds and a LinkedIn campaign.
Headlined ‘The Voice; It’s Everyone’s Business’ it lists 460 names of directors who want to publicly support the Voice, with more continuing to join.
Says Ming Long, a non-executive director and the campaign’s co-organiser: “It is rare for company directors to put themselves out there personally with such unity. Many individual directors feel deeply about this issue and have wanted an avenue to express their strong support in their personal capacity. Directors participating in the campaign are a highly diverse group representing the broader Australian community.”
The group includes Indigenous directors and diversity across gender, race, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, socio-economic background, geographic location and political leanings. The directors are involved in industries ranging from social enterprises to listed and private companies, large and small businesses, and not-for-profit organisations.
Says Long: “It is a true community coalition united in support of the Voice at a vital point in our nation’s future.
“This is our moment in history to set our country on a more inclusive course.
“We are extremely grateful for the pro bono support of Sunita Gloster AM who galvanised a team from The Monkeys part of Accenture Song, Carat, and Sefiani part of Clarity Global, in helping us bring this campaign to life.”
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That ought to do the trick! Job done
bravo
Company directors, not ad directors. The devil’s in the body copy…
It’s got these kind of blind vibes to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lgNPGH1rXI
Please vote yes. Please think of a better way to make it happen.
Why is this being PRed?
Will anyone in the real world care what these people think?
The wokies up to mischief again.
At least they’re not dishing out misinformation and conspiracy theories.
First we’re pressured to display our pronouns in our our email sigs, now we have to declare our political alignment?
Can people please stop photocopying off parts of the Champagne Socialists Handbook, please?
This is a really positive action. Coming from NZ, I’m always surprised at the number of conservative/right wing comments here. You never see them on the .co.nz version. Happy to be on the more progressive side of the advertising pond.
This issue is on a knife edge, so every vote counts. If this tips one Aussie onto the right side of history, it will have worked and it will have been worth it.
Keep up the effort everyone.
Mate, it’s because the progressives here don’t want equality, they want power. Just look at the discriminatory DEI hiring practices the last few years. Just because you disagree with the progressive agenda, doesn’t make you a right-wing nutjob. It’s called common sense.
champagne socialist
/ˌʃampeɪn ˈsəʊʃəlɪst/
nounDEROGATORY•BRITISH
a person who espouses socialist ideals while enjoying a wealthy and luxurious lifestyle.
Dystopian.
…means NO!
“If this tips one Aussie onto the right side of history, it will have worked and it will have been worth it.”
Engraining racisms into our constitution is being on the right side of history? You’ve got some reading to do my friend, there’s a reason the Voice polling has dropped off a cliff:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/ng-interactive/2023/aug/28/indigenous-voice-to-parliament-poll-results-polling-latest-opinion-polls-referendum-tracker-newspoll-essential-yougov-news-by-state-australia
That said, I might as well be slamming my head into a plate glass window trying to get people to see reason on CB. It’s no secret the Aussie ad industry is an echo chamber of Leftie ideology.
Exactly how is The Voice “engraining racisms” (sic)?
We are simply being asked to recognise our First Nations people and listen to them on matters that concern them.
The more people who stand up for YES, the better.
It is you, friend, who needs to do some reading. Starting with the Uluru Statement.
Well this is on-brand for the activists running The Monkeys Sydney office.
I have. It’s a militant document written by activists for activists.
Do you know who hasn’t read the Uluru Statement? Anthony Albanese. Seriously, Google it–you can’t make this stuff up.
The referendum is setup by elites to create racism, divide and distract us from the real issues.
I would implore you to do more research but one thing indoctrinated Lefties don’t like to do is keep an open mind so I dunno, you do you I guess.
Albanese never said he hadn’t read the Uluru Statement from the Heart. He said he didn’t read the addendum.
And I think anyone who reads the Statement can see that it is not militant, it’s a plea for a better future.
The way we explain complicated things to each other is by giving examples. It’s what’s missing from the yes campaign. They have 6 weeks to hit Australians with concrete examples of how the Voice is intended to work. For example: a Territory community has appalling school attendance numbers. The govt program to solve the issue hasn’t worked. The community themselves have a unique perspective on the reason why. And some ideas about a solution. But they are a long way from Canberra and power, and aren’t being heard. So they meet with their Voice rep, an articulate person who takes their ideas to the Parliament. Got it.
ULURU STATEMENT FROM THE HEART
We, gathered at the 2017 National Constitutional Convention, coming from all points of the southern sky, make this statement from the heart:
Our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander tribes were the first sovereign Nations of the Australian continent and its adjacent islands, and possessed it under our own laws and customs. This our ancestors did, according to the reckoning of our culture, from the Creation, according to the common law from ‘time immemorial’, and according to science more than 60,000 years ago.
This sovereignty is a spiritual notion: the ancestral tie between the land, or ‘mother nature’, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who were born therefrom, remain attached thereto, and must one day return thither to be united with our ancestors. This link is the basis of the ownership of the soil, or better, of sovereignty. It has never been ceded or extinguished, and co-exists with the sovereignty of the Crown.
How could it be otherwise? That peoples possessed a land for sixty millennia and this sacred link disappears from world history in merely the last two hundred years?
With substantive constitutional change and structural reform, we believe this ancient sovereignty can shine through as a fuller expression of Australia’s nationhood.
Proportionally, we are the most incarcerated people on the planet. We are not an innately criminal people. Our children are aliened from their families at unprecedented rates. This cannot be because we have no love for them. And our youth languish in detention in obscene numbers. They should be our hope for the future.
These dimensions of our crisis tell plainly the structural nature of our problem. This is the torment of our powerlessness.
We seek constitutional reforms to empower our people and take a rightful place in our own country. When we have power over our destiny our children will flourish. They will walk in two worlds and their culture will be a gift to their country.
We call for the establishment of a First Nations Voice enshrined in the Constitution.
Makarrata is the culmination of our agenda: the coming together after a struggle. It captures our aspirations for a fair and truthful relationship with the people of Australia and a better future for our children based on justice and self-determination.
We seek a Makarrata Commission to supervise a process of agreement-making between governments and First Nations and truth-telling about our history.
In 1967 we were counted, in 2017 we seek to be heard. We leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country. We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.
You left out the other 25 pages…