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A |     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.。    为切实关爱新业态职工子女、留守儿童心理健康，补齐暑期公益托管心理服务短板，近日，济宁市福彩志愿者协会联合济宁市心理咨询师协会，在“五彩蜗牛”暑期公益课堂推出“沙盘筑心，快乐成长”儿童心理沙盘团体特色课程，以趣味心理疏导为孩子们打造温暖心灵港湾。

B | “五彩蜗牛”暑期公益课堂聚焦双职工、新就业群体家庭子女，暑期集中托管期间，不少孩子存在情绪压抑、不善沟通、胆怯内向等问题。

C | 本次活动创新采用非语言式沙盘游戏，摒弃说教式心理科普，分低龄、高龄两组开展团体辅导，每组6至8人，保障每位孩子充分参与。 活动现场暖意融融，轻柔背景音乐烘托放松氛围。破冰小游戏快速消除孩子们的拘谨，心理志愿者通俗讲解沙盘规则，建立尊重、保密的团体契约。孩子们依次轻抚细沙平复心绪，围绕“我的快乐暑假”主题轮流挑选沙具，共同搭建专属心灵世界。全程心理老师耐心观察陪伴，不评判、不干预，仅对内向敏感儿童温和引导。

D | 沙盘创作完成后，孩子们自愿分享创作构思与内心感受，在倾诉中释放烦躁、孤单等负面情绪，学会接纳自我、理解同伴。课程兼具情绪疏导、自我探索、人际培养多重作用，在协作搭建中锻炼倾听包容能力，有效化解同伴矛盾，提升专注力与自信心。活动尾声，志愿者为孩子们送上文具小礼品，引导大家共同整理道具，树立责任意识。此次心理沙盘课堂是济宁福彩“五彩蜗牛”公益课堂完善“五色成长体系”的暖心举措，依托福彩公益力量链接专业心理资源，实现从“托管看护”向“心灵陪伴”升级。

E | 下一步，济宁市福彩志愿者协会将持续联动专业社会组织，丰富心理健康特色课程，用公益微光守护未成年人阳光成长，践行福利彩票“取之于民、用之于民”的公益初心。

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