Pioneer venture capitalist Bill Ferris is making a novel, late intervention in the Voice debate, writing a letter to his grandchildren supporting the Yes vote.
, writing a letter to his grandchildren supporting the Yes vote to “get rid of this shamefully unfair scourge” of a yawning living standards gap between Indigenous Australians and others.
Bill Ferris: “My parents before me, all us oldies, have never extended any real attention or friendship to our First Nation citizens.”In a move to bolster support for the Yes case – albeit in a highly personal manner – Mr Ferris writes to his grandchildren: “I hope that by the time you dudes become grandparents you can be very proud, along with all Australians, to be living in a country that has eliminated its woeful ‘gap’.
Mr Ferris, 81, writes that his generation, “and my parents before me, all us oldies, have never extended any real attention or friendship to our First Nation citizens”.
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