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 at the Voice to Parliament referendum.

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

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

‘It’s very simple for Peter Dutton to say it’s not properly explained that we don’t have a compelling case. It is there,’ he said.

It’s hoped that the Voice will give First Nations people, who have lifespans that are eight years shorter than other Australians and double the rates of suicide, a chance to weigh in on laws that affect them.

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

‘She said, “I can’t believe anyone would vote no to 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 wonderful country this is.’

The triple Gold Logie award winner also addressed those who criticised the Voice for not going far enough to address the problems facing Indigenous Australians, saying that ‘in many ways, of course it doesn’t’.

‘You can’t just drop in at the top of Mount Everest, you’ve got to climb slowly and this is the only way you can do it,’ he said.

He urged Australians to think about how they wanted to vote and to ‘just be decent for once’ in order to bring change to First Nations people.

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

‘There is nothing, no cost to Australians showing kindness, thinking with their heart, as well as their head when they enter the polling 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 polling to warn the proposed advisory body would be ‘a very significant and detrimental 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 expended and no practical outcome that was going to be delivered for Indigenous Australians,’ he said on ABC radio.