Ultramarathon runner Pat Farmer has ended a 8,950-mile run at the central Australian sandstone landmark Uluru after a seven-month journey to raise public support for the creation of an Indigenous advocacy body in the constitution
Pat Farmer, left, as speaks on his arrival at the Sydney Opera House on his Run for the Voice campaign, as Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, right, listens in Sydney, Aug. 22, 2023. Ultramarathon runner Farmer ended a 14,400-kilometer run at the central Australian sandstone landmark Uluru on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, after a seven-month journey to raise public support for the creation of an Indigenous advocacy body in the constitution.
Albanese said he had “utter admiration and awe” for Farmer’s commitment for the cause which opinion polls suggest is unlikely to succeed. “I’m glad. Very, very happy to be at this point in time, this point in the world’s time where we start to acknowledge Indigenous communities right around the world and the significance of that culture,” Farmer told reporters.
The Voice was recommended in 2017 by a group of 250 Indigenous leaders who met at Uluru. They were delegates of the First Nations National Constitutional Convention the then-government had asked for advice on how the Indigenous population could be acknowledged in the constitution. A “No” decision would be a backward step for Australia after the High Court ruled in 1992 that Indigenous Australians had land rights that predated British colonization and after the Australian Parliament apologized to the Indigenous population in 2008 for past injustices, Dodson said.
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