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A market-researcher turned whistleblower has alleged that he was instructed to manipulate data for a project commissioned by the Australian Electoral Commission in the lead up to the Voice to Parliament referendum last year.
The research concerned was benchmarking, tracking and evaluating AEC advertising about the process of the referendum and how to participate.
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The whistleblower, who is being represented by the Human Rights Law Centre, says he was told to submit data from Indigenous people in Sydney as being from South Australia and regional NSW.
Palawa woman Maggie Walter, Distinguished Professor of Sociology Emerita at the University of Tasmania, is a founding member of the Indigenous data sovereignty organisation Maiam Nayri Wingara and an executive member of the Global Indigenous Data Alliance.
Professor Walter told NITV that the allegations of data manipulation were extremely disheartening.
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