‘A gift to Australia’: Indigenous leaders return to Uluru to rally yes vote in voice referendum

‘This is our base camp, where we started that trek. And now we’re headed to the ballot box.’ Pat Anderson and Megan Davis at Uluru Photograph: Dean Sewell/Oculi

Six years ago, the Uluru Statement from the heart was spoken to the world. Two of the women who helped write it, and who have carried it with them, are sitting at the rock, taking stock of that long journey.

Friday marks the anniversary of the Uluru statement, a “gift” which Pat Anderson and Megan Davis say was given to the Australian people in 2017, which underpins the voice to parliament, and which is about to enter its final phase: a referendum by the end of the year.