Rove McManus’ furious Voice spray at Aussies hours before voting begins

Rove McManus has made an impassioned plea to Australians to ‘be decent’ and vote Yes in the ‘Voice for Parliament’ referendum.

Millions of Australians will cast their ballots on Saturday, saying yes or no to including an advisory body for Indigenous Australians in the constitution.

The comedian revealed to The Project panel that he was ‘mad’ in a meeting on Friday, saying the Voice had been ‘manipulated’.

“This is a real moment where we can be proud and show what a great country this is,” Mr McManus said. Photo: Project

“It’s too easy for Peter Dutton to say it hasn’t been properly explained that we don’t have a compelling case. It’s there,” he said.

It is hoped Voice will give First Nations people, who have life expectancies eight years shorter than other Australians and double the suicide rate, a chance to weigh in on laws affecting them.

Mr McManus then revealed what he believed to be ‘mind blowing’ to those planning to vote no, after a chat with his nine-year-old daughter.

“She said, ‘I can’t believe anyone would vote no on this,’ and that’s what breaks my heart,” he said.

‘What are we doing to ourselves? This is a real moment where we can be proud and show what a great country it is.’

The three-time Gold Logie winner also addressed those who criticized The Voice for not going far enough to address the issues facing Indigenous Australians, saying “in many ways, it certainly doesn’t”.

“You can’t just fall to the top of Mount Everest, you have to climb slowly and that’s the only way you can do it,” he said.

He asked Australians to think about how they wanted to vote and to ‘be worthy for once’ in order to make a difference to First Nations people.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also issued an emotional plea on Friday, telling voters that ‘kindness costs nothing’.

“There is nothing, there is no cost to Australians to show kindness, to think with their hearts as well as their heads when they go into the voting booth tomorrow,” Albanese said.

“This is a time where Australians have that opportunity to show the generosity of spirit that I see in the Australian character,” he told reporters in Adelaide.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton used the last day before the election to warn that the proposed advisory body would be “a very significant and damaging change to our system of government”.

“I think there is a lot of regret in terms of the division that has been created, the money that has been spent and no practical results that would be delivered to Indigenous Australians,” he said on ABC radio.