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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.
Australians resoundingly rejected on Saturday a referendum proposal to create an advocacy committee to offer advice to Parliament on policies that affect Indigenous people — the nation's most ...
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 ...
These results have been cited by Yes campaign figures, including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, as evidence for broad Indigenous support for the Voice. [ 3 ] The ABC conducted a review of Indigenous-specific polling in August 2023, consulting with polling experts Kevin Bonham, William Bowe, and Simon Jackman.
The referendum asks whether to recognise Indigenous people and establish a representative body that can provide non-binding advice to parliament. HOW DO AUSTRALIANS VOTE? Explainer-Australians ...
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).
how did the voice referendum come about? Indigenous people began to be included in Australia's census figures after a referendum to amend the constitution in 1967, more than 60 years after it was ...