The Voice referendum needs to be made into a movie. A truly David and Goliath battle with an Indigenous woman as lead.
Opposing a plan to divide the nation by race, an indigenous mother of 4 from Alice Springs fights and wins against the combined money and power of:
The federal government
Every state and territory government
Every federal independent politician (except Lidia Thorpe)
Parts of the federal opposition
Most living former PMs
Sydney and Melbourne Mayors
All state and federal branches of the Greens and Labor parties
Some state branches of the Liberal party
Numerous local governments across each state
Numerous legal professional groups, law firms, lawyers and former judges (Lawyers seemingly thought it sounded like a great idea)
All major sporting codes (including AFL, NRL, Rugby Australia, Cricket Australia, Netball Australia, Football Australia and Tennis Australia)
Many of the biggest professional sporting clubs
Many prominent athletes including Ash Barty, Alyssa Healy, Patty Mills, Cathy Freeman and the captains of both winners of the major football codes played only 2 weeks prior to the referendum
Many major companies including NAB, CBA, ANZ, Westpac, Wesfarmers, Telstra, Coles, Woolworths, BHP, Rio Tinto, Woodside, Newcrest and Qantas who offered to fly YES activists for free and paint planes with YES campaign livery
2240 different business directors across Australia
All religious organisations and leaders except the Australian Christian Lobby and the Australian Jewish Association
Most if not all Universities, climate action and LGBTQIA+ groups
Numerous health organisations
All the unions
Numerous musicians and bands including John Farnham who donated his song “You’re the Voice” for the campaign. The song remains the top single off the 3rd highest selling album in Australian history
Cate Blanchett
The Hemsworths
Nikki Gemmell
Jack Thompson
Tim Winton
Adam Hills
Taika Waititi
Jason Momoa
Shaquille O'Neal
And last but most certainly not least, MC Hammer.