“It’s essentially the most Australian means we are able to do it, and the individuals we’re supporting are globally main most cancers researchers right here in Australia,” Kennedy mentioned in a video exhibiting off the Falcon and asking for donations.
A member of certainly one of America’s most elite and storied households, Kennedy has developed a shocking fame as a rev-head since arriving in Australia.
She has attended the Summernats pageant in Canberra twice, together with this 12 months when she filmed scorching rods doing burnouts on her telephone and met entrants within the Soiled Mullet Fest.
Presently painted yellow, orange and purple, a brand new design for Kennedy’s shitbox will probably be unveiled earlier than she participates within the rally.
James Freeman, who based the rallies in 2009 after dropping each dad and mom to most cancers inside 12 months, mentioned it was a “true honour” that Kennedy had agreed to be part of the occasion.
“I’m extraordinarily proud and excited that the US Ambassador to Australia has chosen to participate in Shitbox Rally,” he mentioned.
“The Ambassador will take part in the identical method as everybody else with fundraising for most cancers analysis, driving a shitbox and tenting beneath the celebrities.”
First as Barack Obama’s deputy and now as US President, Joe Biden has championed his most cancers moonshot initiative, described as a “nationwide effort to finish most cancers as we all know it”.
Kennedy’s ambassadorial travels have already taken her throughout Australia, together with to the Garma Pageant within the Northern Territory, a Dolly Parton drag present in Perth and climbing 80 metres up a tree in an old-growth forest in Tasmania.