AFL legend and Indigenous leader Michael Long has outlined plans to seek King Charles III’s support for the Voice to Parliament.
The former Essendon premiership player is currently walking from Melbourne to Canberra in support of the Voice – recreating a walk he made 19 years ago when Prime Minister John Howard abolished the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission.
The Norm Smith Medal winner, who played 12 seasons with Essendon, said he would travel to London and attempt to get King Charles III to support the Voice, “even if we have to beg”. “I’m calling on his sons, Prince William and Prince Harry [too], your grandmother was head of other black nations, we are no different," he said.
British royals rarely comment on political issues due to the long-established convention for the Monarch to remain neutral with respect to political matters.
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