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And, as the Gen Zers say, it seems the referendum is living in their heads “rent-free” – literally.

The Sydney City Council is offering the ‘Yes23’ team nearly $26,000 worth of free accommodation in a prime office within the CBD.

The 137.5 sqm space is located on Level 17 of Town Hall House on Kent Street, where the team will work for three months ahead of the referendum, which is scheduled for sometime between October and December this year.

The accommodation proposal is yet to be formally approved, but the council has already pledged funding and finalised a “three-month licence agreement” with the ‘Yes’ campaign.

News of the ‘Yes’ campaigners scoring free rent comes days after Qantas announced it will offer free flights to the team, so they can dialogue with regional and remote communities across Australia.

And just like how Qantas occasionally dresses up its aircraft in rainbow colours in support of the LGBT community, the airline has also decked three planes with the ‘Yes23’ campaign logo in support of the Voice – because the aviation industry is clearly obliged to participate in the political movements of the day.

“An Insult”

These decisions have received backlash from the ‘No’ supporters, particularly from Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, who called the free-rent handout a “slap in the face” of Australians struggling to pay mortgages and afford essentials amid a national cost-of-living crisis.

“[Lord Mayor of Sydney] Clover Moore should do something less divisive, like helping those Aussies struggling to pay their rates,” Senator Price said.

“This insult to every Australian struggling to pay their bills will just pile more division onto an already divisive referendum.”

The campaign team behind the ‘No’ vote has apparently taken a different – or rather, a less elitist – approach to operations, and Senator Price claimed that her team would not follow through with a move that could further divide the country.

“I’m proud to say that the ‘No’ campaign is run out of the lounge rooms and sheds of ordinary Aussies across the country,” she said.

Councillor and former mayor of Cumberland City Council Steve Christou also opposed the freebie decision, calling on the Minister for Local Government to “stop woke councils wasting ratepayer money” on the Voice ‘Yes’ campaign.

“Councils should not be crying poor coming cap in hand to the State Government for extra funding, then expecting their ratepayers to foot the bill of exorbitant rate rises whilst engaging in neglectful and reckless expenditure on matters outside of Council’s jurisdiction,” he wrote in a letter to Ron Hoenig MP.

Recent movements by the ‘Yes’ campaign have only demonstrated its ability to promote but not educate; brazenly spend taxpayers’ dollars; receive gifts from woke councils and companies; and win the support of a Prime Minister who has not even read the entire Uluru Statement, despite him pledging to implement it in full.

In a recent radio interview with Ben Fordham, Anthony Albanese also rejected claims that the Voice is about treaty and reparations, but the full statement read that the treaty could include “reparations, a financial settlement (such as seeking a percentage of GDP)”.

The referendum is inching closer, but does anyone – from either side of the aisle – even know what’s going on?

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