Yes campaigner to the Voice addresses vicious rumours about his family: ‘Really crazy’

Leading Yes campaigner Thomas Mayo has tackled malicious rumors about his origins and his family as he prepares for the final three weeks of campaigning for the Voice to Parliament.

The former wharf has become a household name in the run-up to the referendum, working closely with Anthony Albanese’s government to help promote a yes vote.

And he has faced his fair share of criticism after comments from his past surfaced calling for reparations, paying ‘rent’ to First Nations people and changing the date of Australia Day. (He later told Daily Mail Australia that his views had changed as the referendum debate progressed.)

Critics have repeatedly raised questions about Mayo’s legacy. In an interview with the Betoota lawyerMayo described the insinuations as “shocking.”

“It was quite shocking to see photos of your parents being shared saying we’re not really Indigenous,” he said.

The former quay has become a household name ahead of the referendum and is working closely with the government to promote a yes vote

Mayo’s father is from the Torres Strait Islands. His great-great-grandfather arrived in the Torres Strait from the Philippines and married a local woman.

His maternal grandparents are English, Irish and Polish.

“I didn’t come from a family of activists or anything,” he said. When the interviewer noted that he had been at the center of “multiple conspiracies,” Mayo said the rumors he had heard were “truly insane.”

“I have never been a member of the Communist Party,” he added. “You can put all these videos together and make people look scary.”

The references to the Communist Party come after Mayo spoke at a forum organized by Search Foundation, an organization once linked to the former Communist Party of Australia.

Mayo has been traveling around Australia campaigning for the ‘Yes’ vote and said he is looking forward to October 15 when he can finally take a break.

“I’ve been working hard on this for six years,” he said.

Critics have repeatedly raised questions about Mayo’s legacy. In the photo: Mayo with loved ones

Mayo’s father is from the Torres Strait Islands. His great-great-grandfather arrived in the Torres Strait from the Philippines and married a local woman

Although successive polls show support for The Voice has fallen, Mayo, the government and the official Yes23 campaign are still hopeful they can secure a victory on October 14.

His message to the public is: ‘Don’t be fooled.

‘It’s an advisory committee. They’re trying to pull the wool over your eyes.’

Just over a third of Australians (36 percent) say they will vote ‘Yes’ to the Voice to Parliament, according to the Newspoll survey of 1,239 voters for The Australian.

It marks a drop of two points in the past three weeks – the lowest level yet for the beleaguered Yes campaign.

Meanwhile, opposition to the historic referendum has risen slightly to 56 percent, with less than three weeks until election day.

Mayo said the coalition – which supports the no vote – is doing nothing more than “looking for a cheap victory.”

“What a hill to die on,” he said.

One of the biggest criticisms of the Voice to Parliament is that there is ‘not enough detail’ for the Australian public.

This message has become one of the most successful of the No campaign and is the main reason why Australians vote No, according to the Redbridge Poll.

But Mayo said that, too, is unfair. He said the details are available from the Voice and there is no need for this to be in the referendum question itself.

He described the constitution as “the size of a passport” and said there are no other examples where all the details are written into it.

“It doesn’t have the mechanisms,” he said. ‘There are just things at the highest level. It gives parliament the power to collect taxes, it does not say how much tax. It gives flexibility.

‘It only says that there must be elections, it does not say how many people are in parliament.’

Mayo was one of the signatories of the Uluru Statement from the Heart