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  1. The Voice referendum needs to be made into a movie. A truly David and Goliath battle with an Indigenous woman as lead. Opposing a plan to divide the nation by race, an indigenous mother of 4 from Alice Springs fights and wins against the combined money and power of: The federal government Every state and territory government Every federal independent politician (except Lidia Thorpe) Parts of the federal opposition Most living former PMs Sydney and Melbourne Mayors All state and federal branches of the Greens and Labor parties Some state branches of the Liberal party Numerous local governments across each state Numerous legal professional groups, law firms, lawyers and former judges (Lawyers seemingly thought it sounded like a great idea) All major sporting codes (including AFL, NRL, Rugby Australia, Cricket Australia, Netball Australia, Football Australia and Tennis Australia) Many of the biggest professional sporting clubs Many prominent athletes including Ash Barty, Alyssa Healy, Patty Mills, Cathy Freeman and the captains of both winners of the major football codes played only 2 weeks prior to the referendum Many major companies including NAB, CBA, ANZ, Westpac, Wesfarmers, Telstra, Coles, Woolworths, BHP, Rio Tinto, Woodside, Newcrest and Qantas who offered to fly YES activists for free and paint planes with YES campaign livery 2240 different business directors across Australia All religious organisations and leaders except the Australian Christian Lobby and the Australian Jewish Association Most if not all Universities, climate action and LGBTQIA+ groups Numerous health organisations All the unions Numerous musicians and bands including John Farnham who donated his song “You’re the Voice” for the campaign. The song remains the top single off the 3rd highest selling album in Australian history Cate Blanchett The Hemsworths Nikki Gemmell Jack Thompson Tim Winton Adam Hills Taika Waititi Jason Momoa Shaquille O'Neal And last but most certainly not least, MC Hammer.
  2. I have done the trip from Sydney to Darwin and a few other parts numerous times. In NSW and Qld generally, the further you head west, the worse the roads get but there is less traffic. If you've got a lot of time, the Pacific and Bruce highways are good for small coastal towns but the roadworks and traffic make for a very long trip. If you're planning to see any of the reef and you are driving, you're sure to be on the Bruce at some point, especially if you go to Cairns which is beautiful. You can get from there to NT and the Stuart highway through Normanton and Heartbreak hotel but the roads are a lot better if you go down through Mt Isa and Camoweal to three ways/tennant creek. Either way still misses Longreach and Winton which are good to visit. Once you get north of Katherine, Litchfield National Park is awesome and I think better than Kakadu. The Stuart highway is 130 for a lot of it and is a good road so easy to do. I definitely recommend Mataranka hot springs if you are travelling anti-clockwise as its an oasis after a long drive through not much at all. If you want to do the full Stuart highway, have a look at the Ghan as you can put vehicles on it and get out at Alice. If you really want to see the outback, you could go from Alice to Boulia down the plenty or from Yulara to Laverton on the way to Perth. Any trip you do will have to be planned around weather. You don't want to be north between mid-December and Easter as you will get flooded somewhere. Tourism in Tassie is pretty much closed (except for MOFO) outside of that time anyway so its good to do the south during our summer. Hope this helps.
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