hen she was 12 years old, Megan Davis was handed the autobiography of controversial governor-general Sir John Kerr, igniting a lifelong fascination with the Australian Constitution. One of five children raised by her single mother in a housing commission home in Brisbane, Davis – whose mother is white and whose father is Indigenous – has grown up wanting to give a voice to the voiceless. It drove her to become an international human-rights lawyer and the first Indigenous Australian woman to be elected to
