Tanya Hosch: Indigenous activist leaves hospital after leg amputation to attend voice campaign launch

Constitutional recognition activist says she had to find strength to attend Indigenous voice to parliament referendum yes campaign launch

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The Indigenous voice to parliament is so important to Tanya Hosch that she left hospital after a leg amputation to be at Wednesday's launch of the referendum campaign.

A little over two weeks ago I had my lower right leg amputated," said Hosch, a Torres Strait Islander woman and a director of Australians for Indigenous Constitutional Recognition.

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