Open Your Hearts Australia

Australians are now engaged in a national conversation about a change to the constitution to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the First Nations of Australia and create a Voice to Parliament. It's been a struggle of decades - first in 1967, for the right be counted in the census, and now to be consulted about policies that impact First Nations people. In the lead up to the referendum, Natalie Ahmat, Jack Latimore and Jodan Perry, three of our leading Indigenous journalists, discuss the challenges in covering the Voice, meeting audience expectations and battling audience fatigue.

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A proud Mudburra and Wagadagam woman, Natalie Ahmat is passionate about telling stories through an Indigenous lens. Natalie currently presents NITV News, Australia’s only dedicated Indigenous television news bulletin on National Indigenous Television, as well as the weekly Indigenous news program NITV News: Nula on SBS. Since joining the inaugural NITV News team in 2008, Natalie has travelled around the country reporting on First Nations issues, and has anchored the channel’s live coverage of some of the most significant Indigenous events in recent history, including Garma from north east Arnhem Land, the Uluru First Nations Constitutional Convention, and the National NAIDOC Awards.

Jack Latimore is a Birpai-Thungutti man, a journalist and a writer. He currently works as the Aboriginal affairs journalist for The Age.

Jodan Perry is a Worimi and Wiradjuri man who has been a journalist for 12 years. He is currently NITV's Head of Digital and is the Digital Lead for the wider network Referendum Unit. He has previously hosted news and sports programs on the channel, has also worked as a journalist at the ABC, Channel 9, and was a sports producer at Sky News.

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