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The 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum was held on 14 October 2023. [1] Voters were asked if they approved an alteration to the Australian Constitution that would recognise Indigenous Australians in the document through prescribing a body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.
On 21 May 2022, the Australian Labor Party won government, with party leader Anthony Albanese becoming Prime Minister.During his victory speech, Albanese committed to holding a referendum to enshrine an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in his government's first term of office, acting on the 2017 request of Indigenous leaders for such a body made with the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
Bipartisan support is widely regarded as essential for an Australian referendum's success. Only eight of 45 referendums have succeeded in the constitution's 122-year history.
On 13 June 2017, the Referendum Council released their final report, which recommended that a referendum for a constitutional voice be held. It stated that the body would recognise Indigenous Australians as "the first peoples of Australia" and that it should be tasked with "monitoring the use of the heads of power in section 51(xxvi) and ...
Australians are set to overwhelmingly say 'No' to a proposal to constitutionally recognise the country's Indigenous people in a referendum on Saturday, one of the final opinion polls ahead of the ...
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English: A map showing the results of the 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum in each federal electoral division. Original file: File:Australian electoral divisions, blank map (2022).svg (created by Kingofthedead; note that the file itself is a derivative of Eric0892's File:Australia General Election 2022 -- First-Preference Votes.svg).
Nathan Chester, Bryan Olesen, Tae Lewis, Asher HaVon, Maddi Jane, Serenity Arce, Madison Curbelo, Josh Sanders, Karen Waldrup. The Voice kicked off the second results show of season 25 tonight ...