Uluru Dialogue co-chair Megan Davis says the commercial will be particularly emotional for Gen Xers, given John Farnham’s You’re the Voice was released when they were coming of age. But she says the ad is for all Australians.
John Farnham’s voice is best known for ringing out across stadiums and even the rolling hills of Falls Festival.music legend’s involvement
in the Yes campaign on a quiet backstreet in Collingwood, a Melbourne suburb with a long history of working-class activism. Professor Megan Davis from the Yes campaign says it was difficult to keep John Farnham’s involvement secret.plays throughout the Yes campaign’s two-minute call-to-action video, which started hitting TV screens at 6pm on Sunday, just over a month before theThe ad features throwbacks to the 1967 referendum, former prime minister John Howard’s controversial gun buyback program and last decade’s same-sex marriage plebiscite. It ends with the tagline: “How we respond will make history.
In Collingwood on Sunday, flanked by elders and young supporters holding Yes signs, Uluru Dialogue co-chair Professor Megan Davis said the commercial would be particularly emotional for Gen X, givenwas released when that generation was coming of age. However, she said the ad was for all age groups. “The ad showcases an extraordinary number of incredible decisions that we’ve made as a nation that we were anxious about, but actually just led to a better Australia. That’s what the ad is about,” she said. “It’s targeted to all Australians.”She told the crowd it was “very, very hard” to keep Farnham’s involvement in the campaign a secret.
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