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The Yes campaign for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament arrived in the Northern Territory on Wednesday, holding events in Darwin and Alice Springs in its first official visit to the territory.

Speaking in Darwin, campaign director Dean Parkin said significant investment had been made into campaigning in the NT. 

That is despite the fact people in the NT, as well as the ACT, will have different voting power from those living in states in the Voice referendum, due to their territory status.

Under Australia’s constitution, a referendum is only passed if it is approved by a majority of voters nation-wide and a majority of states.

Territory votes only count towards the national majority.

“The Northern Territory obviously has a very significant, very important Indigenous population,” Mr Parkin said.

“So it’s very important that our Yes campaign is engaging with Indigenous people and making sure that they feel like this is their campaign.”

A man in a purple Voice Yes campaign T-shirt standing in a small park at the end of an outdoor mall, and smiling.
Dean Parkin says the Yes campaign is committed to engaging with Indigenous people from all over Australia, including the NT. (ABC News: Michael Donnelly)

At the campaign event in Alice Springs on Wednesday, Yes23 co-chair Rachel Perkins said a yes vote in the region was “very important”. 

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