What does American basketballer Shaquille O’Neal have to do with the Indigenous Voice to Parliament?

By Keith Rathbone, Senior Lecturer, Modern European History and Sports History, Macquarie University
Averill Gordon, Senior Lecturer, Public Relations, Auckland University of Technology

On Saturday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met with former NBA star and current TV personality Shaquille O’Neal in Sydney to enlist the sport star’s support for constitutional recognition for an Indigenous voice. O’Neal voiced his support for changes to the Australian Constitution, but is his voice the right one?

The prime minister claimed O'Neal reached out to him because “he…

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