If Australia returns a majority No vote, we will wake up on October 15 with no plan to improve Indigenous people’s lives. My grandfather would have implored us to consider the consequences of choosing to do nothing.
More than 23 years ago, I walked with my grandfather, former prime minister Malcolm Fraser, across the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Ever since the government confirmed a referendum on the Voice to parliament would be held, and particularly in the weeks since October 14 was confirmed as the day we would head to the polls, I have been asked by many people what my grandfather, who served as a Liberal prime minister from 1975 to 1983, would have thought about the Voice.
The line, “if you don’t know, vote no”, would have been abhorrent to Malcolm Fraser. He was a man who believed that if you don’t know, find out. More likely, the slogan he would have gotten behind would have been, “if you don’t know, give ’em a go!” Our democracy grants us the power to change the constitution – let’s not squander it with lack of knowledge or fear of the new or unknown. We so rarely have this power, let’s use it to move our country forward.
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