AFL legend Michael Long has appealed to King Charles III to support the Voice to parliament and plans to travel to London to make his case.
: AFL legend Michael Long has called on King Charles III to back the Voice to parliament and plans to travel to London to seek an audience with the King to petition him.
Michael Long re-enacts his long walk from Melbourne to Canberra in support of the Voice to Parliament. Long was joined by former MPs and athletes Pat Farmer and Nova Peris.Long was joined on Monday by former Liberal MP and ultra-marathoner Pat Farmer, who is running around Australia in support of the Voice.
The trio met up at the Marmungun Rock in Wangaratta’s Apex Park on Monday and were joined by a crowd of about 200 supporters, where Farmer, Peris and Long urged people to vote Yes for constitutional recognition and a Voice to parliament.“We are all accountable. Black, white, everyone. We can fly to the moon. We can do amazing things, invent amazing things, but we can’t fix what’s in the back of our nation...it’s time. It can’t happen in another 20 years,” Long said on Monday.
“So we’re going to take this to London even if we have to beg the King. If you are such a great leader - and I’m calling on his sons, Prince William and Prince Harry [too], your grandmother was head of other black nations, we are no different. So we are calling on King Charles please stand with us, please stand with the Australians that want to move forward.
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