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This is the best summary I could come up with:


Filmmaker Rachel Perkins, co-chair of Australians for Indigenous Constitutional Recognition, says it's "alarming" that some people still don't know what the Voice to Parliament is, only weeks from the referendum.

Delivering the Dr Charles Perkins Memorial Oration, named after her father, at the University of Sydney on Tuesday night, the Arrernte and Kalkadoon woman said a lack of understanding was a "problem the Yes campaign has".

She has directed films including Mabo, Bran Nue Dae, Jasper Jones and the television series Mystery Road.

"It presents us with an extraordinary opportunity to bind this nation together with its first people, its greatest ever handshake placed in the Australian constitution," she said.

In her keynote address, Ms Perkins took aim at Opposition Leader Peter Dutton's position on the Voice.

Ms Perkins believed the opposition's plan would represent "no change ... to the strategy employed for the last decade, which has yielded no significant closing of the gap and nothing to alleviate the plight of people in communities that he [Mr Dutton] describes as squalid".


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