ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER: What a crowd, fantastic. And I just want to say to you that the effort is appreciated. It doesn't really matter what politicians think in this. The important thing is it's appreciated by the people that we're trying to assist here. And I want to say to Josh and his team a big shout out, also want to acknowledge Ken Wyatt in particular for what he's done in this campaign. When we had the meeting in March, we were about to have the press conference announcing the legislation that would go forward, Ken was a part of the Referendum Working Group. And we met, for two, three days we were finalising making sure that we got it right. And the next morning, I was shocked that Ken was there and had got on a plane to make sure that that he was present. Because he was a part of a government that also promised to have a referendum, as everyone has, going back to John Howard in the 2007 election, that went to the election with a platform of having a referendum for constitutional recognition within eighteen months. Well, what I've done is to accept the request that was made by Indigenous Australians. And I was at Uluru yesterday morning. And the night before, one of the greatest moments in my life was Anangu women dancing. And what they did was they had sticks, and they did a special dance, and they dragged the sticks along the red dirt. And that was showing the burden of colonisation and the impact that it had on their lives that we know has led to the first Australians being our most disadvantaged in this wealthy country. We have diseases that have been eradicated but still impact on Indigenous Australians. Indigenous Australians are more than twice as likely to take their own life. There is a greater chance of an Indigenous young male going to jail than to university. An eight year life expectancy gap. We need to do something better. And we can do something better. Because the process that was established under the former government came together at Uluru in 2017, and made a very gracious request of us, as non-Indigenous Australians, of all of us to walk with them to a better future, to overcome what the Uluru Statement speaks about being the 'torment of powerlessness', in order to create that better future. And it had just two requests: recognition and the form of recognition being a Voice, a non-binding advisory committee, just so that Indigenous Australians can be listened to, to have better outcomes, because we know from experience, that when you consult people who are directly affected you will get better outcomes. You will get that buy in and you also get responsibility for the outcomes as well. Which is why this gracious and modest request of Indigenous Australians should be taken up by Australia on Saturday. And I'm very hopeful that when Australians think about what the question is, and they go into that polling booth. Pat Farmer I welcomed back to Uluru. I saw him off in Hobart in April, and he's run 14 and a half thousand kilometres around Australia. So if you're thinking about making an extra call, or knocking on an extra door, or getting up a little bit earlier on Saturday morning, whatever any of us have done is nothing like what Pat Farmer has done and running around this country. The former Liberal Member of Macarthur out of his commitment to the First Australians. It is an amazing effort. But what the rest of us are being asked to do is to just walk a few metres, not 14,000 kilometres. Walk a few meters, get out of pencil and write 'Y-E-S'. So it will make an incredible difference if we if we can get that outcome. Can I say that the request which has been made is for just two things: recognition and listening. No power of veto, no change to the way that Parliament or government functions, but accountability of government for decisions. It has to listen to first Australians. And we do that and we have to we take up that request from Indigenous Australians so that we get better outcomes. So on Saturday, what do we want Australians to do? We want them to vote 'Y-E-S'. What does that spell? Yes.
NOVA PERIS: I just want to take this opportunity. This has been a long time coming. And it's been decades and decades and decades of very important work towards reconciliation from extraordinary First Nations leaders. And even when I was in Parliament I was co-chairs with Ken Wyatt. And I've seen our Prime Minister get attacked. I just want to say this: that good leaders can lead, but great leaders take us where sometimes we don't want to go but have to go. And our Prime Minister took up the invitation, the Uluru Statement from the heart to put us as First Nations people on this nation's birth certificate. We don't come from anywhere else as First Nations people. We come from this continent and have done so for thousands and thousands of generations. And for 122 years, people who have come to this country and become citizens, you have a rightful place, but we don't have a rightful place on this founding document, as our Prime Minister said - his extraordinary leadership and putting this on the national agenda, and I thank you.
KEN WYATT: This is a journey that I've been on with many others since 2010. That is when we first had discussions about constitutional recognition and about listening to Indigenous Australians, having them sit at the table as equals to shape our future and our destiny. As Noel Pearson said this morning, this is not about this generation. This is about our children and our grandchildren and the future of this nation. When you vote Yes on Saturday, and during the next day, this is about saying we want an Australia that is walking together, shaping a future that has better outcomes than what we see for First Nations people in this nation. And so we've got an extraordinary opportunity. I do thank the Prime Minister for taking this challenge and bringing it forward. I've enjoyed working through and working with so many other tremendous leaders who have contributed to where we are today. And Prime Minister, I thank you for having the courage to go forward with this proposition. And on Saturday night, I hope fellow Australians remember, this is about all of, but this is also about bringing us to the table, putting us in the Constitution, and putting us forward as a nation into a far better future than what we see today. Thank you.
NOLAN HUNTER: First off, Prime Minister, I am reminded that it is the role of leadership to bring people together. The Uluru Statement was a gift to the Australian people to walk together in peace. So it was done with love and the offering of peace from our people who attended the dialogues and who were there at Uluru. I was also part of that as a process back in 2017 and continued to be involved in that. And all we're asking people is to make a difference to the lives of First Nations people. It's a simple ask. And it's been made complicated in all of the misinformation that's been put out there. This is about the heart of the Australia people. It's about us walking together and making a difference in this country. It's never been done before. So our Australian people, our brothers and sisters, all in this country, this is your opportunity to make that difference and change this country forever.
PRIME MINISTER: I would like to thank everyone for coming along. I would make this point. A lot of people have spoken about my speech on 21 May. And yes, I reaffirmed the commitment that I made here in Perth when I launched our campaign at Optus Stadium there to have this referendum in our first term. But I said something else that night as well. I spoke about kindness. With events this week, don't you think the world will be a better place with a bit more kindness?