A prominent Yes campaigner has highlighted Ally Langdon’s A Current Affair interview with veteran journalist Ray Martin in a list of reasons why Australia voted No to the Voice.
The TV icon sparked controversy when he called on voters won over by the No campaign’s ‘If you don’t know, vote no’ slogan to ‘d***heads and dinosaurs’ at a Yes rally before moving into the Channel Nine news program appeared. hosted.
Prominent author and former journalist Martin Flanagan highlighted the interview in his analysis on the ways in which the No camp managed to win the referendum.
“I would like to establish a media award named after Ally Langdon from ‘A Current Affair.’ Ally questioned Ray Martin after he said dinosaurs voted NO,” Flanagan wrote.
Ray Martin appeared on the Channel Nine news program he once presented, A Current Affair, and was questioned by presenter Ally Langdon about his language at a Yes meeting
‘Ally said that Australians didn’t understand the Voice and, in proof of this statement, said: ‘I mean, my parents don’t understand. They watched it, their group of friends who watched it and didn’t watch it. “I don’t understand, that’s a huge problem.”
“The prize for my media award is a cartoon of a group of dinosaurs looking at a billboard that says ‘If you don’t know, vote no.’
Flanagan insinuated that Ally’s use of her friends and family’s opinions during the interview should have been irrelevant.
“It’s not just about the Voice referendum, it’s also about all these other things that we don’t want to hear about,” he said.
‘We have an overpopulated, overheated planet where two global conflicts are currently raging.
‘Major environmental disasters could displace hundreds of millions of people, the effect of climate change on the world’s agricultural areas could cause widespread famine, and so on.
“But back to you in the studio, Ally. Tell us what your parents and their friends think.’
Author, veteran journalist and Yes supporter Martin Flanagan (pictured) referred to the interview in a piece he wrote addressed to the 39 percent of Australians who voted Yes to the Voice to Parliament.
Flanagan appeared to take a swipe at Ally (pictured) for using her friends and family’s opinions during the interview on the show when she confronted Martin about his comments
Flanagan described the No camp’s slogan as the “most groundbreaking campaign slogan I have seen in my adult life.”
‘It’s time’ was a campaign slogan of the Labor Party under Gough Whitlam during the 1972 federal election, addressing the need for change after 23 years of Liberal coalition government.
Flanagan claimed the No camp was using Trump-like tactics to influence voters.
“Roger Stone, political ally of Donald Trump, stated as one of his rules for political combat: “Attack your enemy from every front. Make him feel besieged and confused.” Australians were under siege – especially on social media – and deeply confused,” he said.
“Trumpism is not about winning the debate on any rational or intellectual level. It’s about sucking the life out of your opponent.’
Flanagan also devoted an entire point to Tony Abbott, whom he called Tony Rabbit in the piece, as the former prime minister was an outspoken No supporter.
“NO needed a frontman, a veneer of respectability, and Tony Rabbit provided that by saying he was against the Voice on constitutional law,” he said.
At the beginning of the article, Flanagan claimed that the No camp was using Trump-like tactics to influence voters
Flanagan also devoted an entire point to former Prime Minister Tony Abbott (pictured), whom he called Tony Rabbit in the piece because he was an outspoken supporter of No.
‘The fact is that in ten years’ time, when the social problems that created the Uluru Voice to the Heart are still unresolved, ‘the progressive No voter’ will have to face the fact that after saying NO to the Voice , exactly nothing to address chronic Indigenous disadvantage,” he said.
“They will have done nothing because nothing can be done without the cooperation of indigenous Australia, and that is exactly what they have rejected.”
Flanagan suggested that a lack of organization within the Yes campaign and a lack of sustained momentum were also factors in the referendum’s defeat.
