Captain of the recently victorious Collingwood Football Club, Darcy Moore, has thrown his support behind the Yes campaign in the upcoming referendum to alter Australia’s Constitution.
“I'll be voting yes. I feel it’s an intuitive next step and seems an important and practical way to help Indigenous Australians,” he told ABC on Oct. 10
Mr. Moore said the referendum question was not “problematic” or “radically new” and opposed the argument that The Voice will create racial division.
“The argument around division … to my mind, there are already advisory bodies for Indigenous Australians that have come and gone as governments have changed,” he said.
“The mechanism has already existed anyway, so it’s just locking it in by making it permanent in the Constitution. In that way, it’s not anything new.”
Further, he said Australia did not have a “very strong political activist culture amongst our athletes.”
“It’s what we expect of sports people,” he added, noting that people want athletes to “shut up and play sport.”
“But ... athletes can exercise their rights and say what they want to say healthily.”
Mr. Moore joins a host of athletes who have publicly voiced their support for The Voice to Parliament, including Nathan Cleary, Patrick Dangerfield, Ash Barty, and Adam Goodes.
