VOICE MISINFORMATION RIFE

Donna Burns in East Arnhem Land. Credit: Supplied.

Misinformation and disinformation have become rife in the Voice to Parliament debate.

A video of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaking about conspiracy theories has been deceptively edited and spread widely online.

The video appears to show Mr Albanese saying the United Nations would control land in Australia if the referendum was successful.

AAP Fact Check found this claim was false, and Mr Albanese was in fact giving examples of conspiracy theories.

The Australian Indigenous Doctors Association is attempting to counter misinformation on the Voice.

The organisation’s CEO, Wiradjuri descendant Donna Burns, said another common example of misinformation was the idea that there had been no negative impacts of colonisation.

“How that can be shared baffles me, when we have a history of policies that remove children from loving, caring families; that we continue to have overcrowding in housing that impacts our health, that we still have conditions such as rheumatic heart disease that are only seen in third world countries other than Western Australia that is a direct impact of colonisation,” she said.

Listen to an interview with Donna Burns: