‘We have to do our bit’: the rural Australians campaigning for the Indigenous voice

Torquay resident Brent McGregor hosted his first kitchen table conversation on the voice with a group of six retirees. Photograph: Christopher Hopkins/The Guardian

Last month, Brent McGregor gathered a group of six retirees at his seaside home to talk about the Indigenous voice to parliament.

The Torquay resident, a former theatre director, facilitated the conversation over a spread of dates, nuts and freshly baked scones, deploying the poise and confidence learned on the stage in an attempt to affect constitutional change.