2024 UQ NAIDOC Keynote Lecture
The night before the referendum, we were all nervous.
It wasn’t a campaign that began in 2022 when Labor was elected at a federal election, we had been working on the advocacy of constitutional recognition since 2011.
Twelve long years. Eight government and parliamentary processes and 11 reports.
By the end of the campaign, it was a family affair. I spent much of my time in South East Queensland and Logan.
The night before, my youngest niece Mimi – who had been named after me by my sister – asked her Mum if she could sleep over with me. And in the morning she would come down to the Logan booths her Mum was managing.