How Patty Mills is using basketball to highlight importance of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament vote

New York City is hardly synonymous with Australian Indigenous culture, but Patty Mills finds a way to incorporate daily cultural practices from his Brooklyn apartment. Key points: Mills says the Indigenous Voice to Parliament is important "because it's affected us" The NBA champion wants to use his profile "to bridge the gap" between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians He wants to use projects like Indigenous Basketball Australia to educate young Australians in the lead-up to the referendum "There's definitely things throughout the day and throughout the season that I feel really attached to, whether it's cooking certain foods, whether it's singing different songs on the guitar, or even just reading certain books," Mills said. "It's always going to come back to being proud of what we have in Australia and what we do have is this beautiful, unique culture," Mills said. Her son proudly speaks of the "big part" his mother played "back in the day", working for government in the nation's capital and bringing recognition of Indigenous Australians. Alongside his "gold vibes only" mantra instilled in the Boomers camp during Tokyo, a video emerged of the team captain practising an Indigenous war dance ahead of the side's most successful campaign in Olympic history.