John Farnham has lent his famous track You’re the Voice to the Yes campaign for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. Farnham rarely allows his music to be used in commercial advertising, but has given permission for his anthemic song to be used in an advertisement created by the Uluru Dialogue, now airing.

John Farnham. Photo © Dave Anderson

Farnham, who recently announced he was free from throat cancer after being diagnosed late last year, said that the song “changed [his] life. I can only hope that now it might help, in some small way, to change the lives of our First Nations Peoples for the better.”

Farnham joins a growing group of leading Australian musicians and arts organisations in both contemporary and classical music who have announced their support for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

On 1 September, Paul Kelly added his voice to the Yes campaign with the release of a new single titled If Not Now, which features lyrics urging Australians to vote in favour of the Voice.