Rugby Australia has become the latest Australian sporting code to declare its support for the yes vote in the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum
AFL expected to follow suit and back yes campaignRugby Australia has become the latest Australian sporting code to declare its support for the yes vote in theIn a full-page advertisement taken out in the Nine newspapers, a statement endorsed by RA’s board said it was time to institute a “level playing field” for First Nations people.“The voice is not about division. It’s about union,” RA’s statement said.
With the announcement, RA joins the NRL and Australian Olympic Committee in explicitly supporting the yes vote, while Football Australia and Tennis Australia have expressed their support for the Uluru statement from the heart, of which the voice is the first component. It leaves the country’s cricket and netball organisations as the only major sporting bodies to have not committed to a position. Both Cricket Australia and Netball Australia are conducting education processes about the referendum for players and staff.
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