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一 | 中新网8月26日电 8月26日，国务院台办举行例行新闻发布会。 CANBERRA, Australia -- Ultramarathon runner Pat Farmer ended a 14,400-kilometer (8,950-mile) run at the central Australian sandstone landmark Uluru on Wednesday after a seven-month journey to raise public support for the creation of an Indigenous advocacy body in the constitution.Australians will vote on Saturday at a referendum that would enshrine in the constitution a so-called Indigenous Voice to Parliament, a mechanism for Indigenous Australians to advise lawmakers on policies that effect their lives.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was at Uluru, which is an Indigenous sacred site also known as Ayers Rock, to welcome the 61-year-old runner’s arrival.Albanese said he had “utter admiration and awe” for Farmer’s commitment for the cause which opinion polls suggest is unlikely to succeed.“No one has done more than this bloke and I am very pleased to welcome him here at Uluru,” Albanese said.Farmer said his first glimpse of the enormous rock rising from the flat Australian wilderness at a distance of 40 kilometers (25 miles) brought a tear to his eye.“I’m glad. Very, very happy to be at this point in time, this point in the world’s time where we start to acknowledge Indigenous communities right around the world and the significance of that culture,” Farmer told reporters.The former lawmaker's run began in Hobart on the island state of Tasmania on April 17 and traversed every Australian state as well as both mainland territories.Uluru has special significance in the campaign to create the Voice as a means of acknowledging Indigenous Australians in the constitution.The Voice was recommended in 2017 by a group of 250 Indigenous leaders who met at Uluru. They were delegates of the First Nations National Constitutional Convention the then-government had asked for advice on how the Indigenous population could be acknowledged in the constitution.Indigenous senator Pat Dodson, the government’s envoy for promoting the Voice, joined the referendum campaign on Wednesday for the first since taking medical leave in April for treatment of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.He said in a National Press Club speech he remained confident that a majority of Australians would vote for the Voice despite polls showing its popularity had slid in recent months.A “No” decision would be a backward step for Australia after the High Court ruled in 1992 that Indigenous Australians had land rights that predated British colonization and after the Australian Parliament apologized to the Indigenous population in 2008 for past injustices, Dodson said.“Do you want to go forward or do you want to go backwards or do you want to do nothing? Do you want to look yourself in the mirror and have pride the next day, or have some doubts and uncertainties and even an increase in shame? ” Dodson asked voters.While recent opinion polls suggest most Australians oppose the Voice, a poll published Wednesday found 59% of Indigenous respondents were in favor.That support had slipped from more than 80% supported suggested by polls published early this year.The latest poll published in The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper was based on an online survey of 420 Indigenous voters between Sept. 22 and Oct. 4. It has a 4.8 percentage point margin of error.Indigenous Australians account for 3.8% of Australia’s population. They have worse outcomes on average than other Australians in a range of measures including health, employment, education, incarceration and suicide rates. Statistically, Indigenous Australians die around eight years younger than the wider community.。有记者问：近日，福建厦门发布促进对台交流合作新举措，其中包括推进厦金大桥(厦门段)建设，争取今年底海上主线通车；并同步推进厦金大桥(金门段)方案研究。台陆委会称，金厦通桥议题涉及两岸公权力事项，非陆方可片面决定，台湾没有推动两岸通桥的政策及规划。请问对此有何评论？　　国台办发言人张晗表示，建设厦金大桥是厦金两地民众的共同呼声和迫切心愿。2023年发布的《中共中央国务院关于支持福建探索海峡两岸融合发展新路建设两岸融合发展示范区的意见》明确提出，要“探索厦金合作共建基础设施模式，加快推进与金门通电、通气、通桥”。其中，厦金大桥(厦门段)工程于2023年10月动工，目前正在有序推进。

二 | 厦金大桥全线通车后，将为两地民众往来带来便利，为金门经济发展、民生改善增添动力，厦金两地将成为更紧密的“同城生活圈”。大桥建成后，可通过桥体管道实现向金门输送水、电、燃气，改善金门发展环境，还将与海上“小三通”通航等形成互补，增加厦金通行通道。民进党当局应正视金门乡亲的利益诉求，停止政治算计，真正为民谋利，支持厦金大桥早日建成通车。(中新网“燕新台”工作室) 【编辑:李岩】。

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