NRL legend Johnathan Thurston has vowed to continue fighting to improve the lives of his fellow Indigenous Australians, despite the failure of Saturday’s Voice to Parliament referendum.
The four-time Dally M medallist, who publicly supported the referendum’s success, said it was a “sad day” for Australia, however he said he would continue to “fight for our kids”.
“I thought it was a great opportunity for us to unite Australians and acknowledge the oldest living culture that’s been here for 60,000 years,” the Gunggari man told The Project on Monday.
“It is a sad day, in my eyes, for Australia, but that’s not going to stop what I continue to do and that is to help inspire the next generation of our culture, that (sic) are still dying eight years younger than the rest of our nation.”
Thurston added that Indigenous Australians had a higher incarceration rate against non-Indigenous demographics, and said Aboriginal kids lived and went to school in “third world…
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