The government’s campaign to raise support for a referendum on a First Nations voice to parliament was highlighted to a packed and enthusiastic meeting in the inner west of Sydney on Thursday evening.
Australia’s new minister for Indigenous Australians, Linda Burney, received a standing ovation after she told the crowd at Marrickville town hall the Uluru Statement was an “incredibly generous invitation to the Australian people to walk together with First Nations people, and the journey begins here in Marrickville”.