Linda Burney accuses Aussies who vote ‘NO’ on the Voice to Parliament of being Trump supporters

Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney has heavily criticized opponents of the Indigenous Voice in parliament, claiming they are dividing Australia by “importing American Trump politics.”

The Labor minister made the scathing attack on the ‘No’ campaign as the referendum debate moved to the Senate.

“I fear the ‘No’ campaign is importing US Trump politics into Australia,” she told the Committee of Economic Development of Australia event in Canberra.

She argued that the “heart” of the campaign against the Voice is “a post-truth approach to politics.”

“The Australian people are better than the Trump politics of the ‘No’ campaign; a ‘no’ campaign that offers no solutions to the challenges we face,” she said.

Ms Burney stated that the main aim of the ‘No’ campaign was to divide the country.

“The goal is to polarize people, and the weapon of choice is disinformation,” she said.

She also targeted Fair Australia, the primary anti-Voice campaign led by shadow minister for Indigenous affairs, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.

Ms Burney accused Fair Australia of regularly posting content on social media that was ‘obviously false or taken out of context’.

“For example, the No campaign uses an image and a quote from Bob Hawke on social media as if to suggest that the former prime minister was not in favor of recognizing Indigenous Australians,” she said.

“We know that Bob Hawke was a big believer in recognition.

“Bob’s wife Blanche made it clear to me that Bob’s greatest regret in his public life was not pushing the cause of Native recognition.”

The Indigenous Australians minister said the vote would be a ‘positive’ step forward for the country.

“The Voice is about making a practical difference, and the ‘Yes’ campaign articulates a positive vision for Australia’s future,” she said.

“The ‘No’ campaign does neither.”

Ms Burney accused the main ‘no’ campaign led by Shadow Indigenous Affairs Minister Jacinta Nampijinpa Price (pictured) of regularly posting ‘false’ content on social media

It comes on the heels of two opinion polls released this week, with one showing the vote to parliament is ‘fixed’, while the other found the ‘no’ vote imminent.

A poll of 1,606 voters, published by Nine newspapers late Monday, is the first major poll to show that the ‘no’ side is now in the lead.

The Resolve Strategic survey found that the percentage of people who nationally approve of enshrining the vote in the constitution has fallen to 49 percent, down from 53 percent in May.

However, Resolve’s findings were contradicted by a Guardian Essential poll released on Tuesday.

The Essential survey of 1,123 voters found that 60 percent of people supported the vote — one percentage point higher than the previous survey.

It also showed that 40 percent of respondents opposed the change compared to the Resolve survey’s findings of 51 percent.