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The prime minister has made a symbolic call to ‘lift the burden of history’. Follow the day’s news live
Good morning and welcome to our rolling news coverage. I’m Martin Farrer and I’ll be bringing you some of the breaking overnight news before my colleague Emily Wind comes along to guide you through the day.
Standing last night with the red rock as his symbolic backdrop, Anthony Albanese hailed the Uluru statement from the heart as a “masterpiece”. He then made his own speech from the heart – an emotional plea for Australians to “lift the burden of history” by voting for the voice to parliament this weekend. The prime minister joined traditional owners at Uluru to plead with Australians to vote for the voice and win “a country at peace” with history. He was visibly moved by performances of traditional song and dance by senior Indigenous women who said the voice would help them make changes to their communities instead of accepting “what the government wants”. This morning, Albanese will greet Pat Farmer at the rock – Farmer has run 14,400km around Australia for six months to support the voice.
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