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The vote for the Voice in suburbs with high ethnic populations was split, with election analyst Ben Raue identifying some surprising trends in certain suburbs. For example, of the 15 suburbs with the highest Indian populations, 10 of them voted Yes, despite all but one being located in electorates that voted No.
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.
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).
A record 17,676,347 people are enrolled to vote, an estimated 97.7% of the eligible population, the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) said. Voting in elections and referendums is compulsory ...
The referendum to be held on Oct. 14 would enshrine in Australia’s constitution an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. The Voice would be a group of Indigenous representatives who would advise the ...
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 ...
After the 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum in which over 60% of South Australians voted against the Voice, state Liberal leader David Speirs cast some doubt on the state voice. One Nation MP Sarah Game announced plans to introduce a bill calling for the First Nations Voice Act 2023 to be repealed.
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 ...