‘Empathy and kindness’: 1967 referendum campaigner urges Australians to vote yes

Aunty Di Travis at home in Bendigo, Victoria. As a teenager, Di was a campaigner for the 1967 referendum and in 2023 she will be voting yes to an Indigenous voice to parliament. Photograph: Kenton/The Guardian

As the nation-defining vote on an Indigenous voice to parliament looms, Aunty Di Travis, a Dja Dja Wurrung-Yorta Yorta elder and 1967 referendum campaigner, wants to remind Australians they are “good, kind people”.

Travis, 75, was a teenager during the successful 1967 campaign to change the way Aboriginal people were referred to in the constitution.