Guide to the Melbourne Walk for Yes event for the referendum on an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, Swanston Street to Federation Square, Melbourne, Victoria, 17 September 2023 / by Leigh Henningham
PIC/21340/1-17
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: January 2024
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Henningham, Leigh, 1960-
- Title
- Melbourne Walk for Yes event for the referendum on an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, Swanston Street to Federation Square, Melbourne, Victoria, 17 September 2023
- Date Range
- 2023
- Collection Number
- PIC/21340/1-17
- Extent
- 17 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Special Collections (Pictures)
Introduction
Cultural Sensitivity Advisory Notice
Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this collection may contain the names and images of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive.
Scope and Contents
On 14 October 2023, Australians voted in a referendum about whether to change the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing a body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.
Collection documents the Melbourne Walk for Yes event which started in Swanston Street and finished at Federation Square, Melbourne, Victoria. The images document the crowd participating in the rally, Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney addressing the crowd, live performances from musicians Peter Garrett, Mia Wray, Marlon Motlop and Kram from Spiderbait, with AFL legend Eddie Betts, ACTU President Michele O'Neil and Marcia Langton marching in support of the Yes Vote.
Conditions Governing Use
Conditions for copying and publishing of this collection may apply, please refer to the collections catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn10014483).
Preferred Citation
Items from this collection should be cited as [Title or description of item], Melbourne Walk for Yes event for the referendum on an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, Swanston Street to Federation Square, Melbourne, Victoria, 17 September 2023 / by Leigh Henningham, National Library of Australia, PIC/21340/[item number(s)].
Source of description
Titles of photographs devised by cataloguer based on information provided by photographer.
Item Descriptions
Wiradjuri woman Hon Linda Burney MP singing on stage with Mia Wray, Marlon Motlop, and Kram at the Melbourne Walk for Yes event for the referendum on an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, Federation Square, Melbourne, Victoria, 17 September, 2023 (Item PIC/21340/6)
1 item,Linda Burney is the Minister for Indigenous Australians. Kram is an Australian musician and the drummer and singer of Spiderbait. Mia Wray is an Australian pop singer, songwriter and musician and Marlon Motlop is an Indigenous Australian former AFL footballer and musician.
Wiradjuri woman Hon Linda Burney MP with Wirangu Kokatha Guburn man Eddie Betts, and other supporters at the start of Melbourne Walk for Yes event for the referendum on an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, Melbourne, Victoria, 17 September, 2023 (Item PIC/21340/8)
1 item,Biographical / Historical
Hon Linda Burney is a Wiradjuri woman and was the first Indigenous Australian to be elected to the NSW Parliament and the first Aboriginal woman to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives. In 2018, she was appointed the Shadow Minister for Families and Social Services, and in 2019, the Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians. Eddie Betts is a Wirangu Kokatha Guburn man with connections to the Gubrun People of the Kalgoorlie Goldfields and Wirangu/Kokatha People of the Far-West Coast of South Australia, and AFL legend.
Large hand-painted placard held by supporters at start of the Melbourne Walk for Yes event for the referendum on an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, State Library Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, 17 September, 2023 (Item PIC/21340/9)
1 item,Slogan on sign reads "The time has come a fact's a fact, they want a Voice let's give them that".
A supporter holds a 'William Cooper' sign at the start of the Melbourne Walk for Yes event for the referendum on an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, State Library Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, 17 September, 2023 (Item PIC/21340/11)
1 item,William Cooper was an inspirational Aboriginal leader in New South Wales and Victoria in the early part of the 20th century and a founding secretary of the Australian Aborigines' League.
Michele O'Neil (left) and Professor Marcia Langton AO (right), marching with arms raised during the Melbourne Walk for Yes event for the referendum on an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 17 September, 2023 (Item PIC/21340/14)
1 item,Professor Marcia Langton AO is an anthropologist, geographer, writer and academic, and is a descendant of the Yiman and Bidjara nations of Queensland. Michele O'Neil is the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU).