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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.
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.
A referendum to amend the Australian Constitution to recognise Indigenous Australians in the document by prescribing the Voice was held on 14 October 2023. [4] It was unsuccessful, with a majority of voters both nationwide and in all states voting against the proposal.
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 ...
September 21, 2023 at 2:20 AM. CANBERRA, Australia (AP) ... The Voice referendum would be the first in Australian history to be passed without bipartisan political support. The center-left Labor ...
October 15, 2023 at 8:27 AM Australia’s Indigenous leaders have called for a week of silence and reflection after a referendum to recognise the country’s First Peoples was rejected.
On 28 August 2023, the campaign called 'Directors for the Voice' was launched, which involved 460 Australian directors from organisations large and small joining together to support the Voice. [207] After the campaign launch, more directors added their names and now more than 2240 company directors have put their name to the campaign to support ...
Following this, in May 2022 Labor leader Anthony Albanese endorsed the Uluru Statement on the occasion of his 2022 election victory and committed to implementing it in full. However, the Voice was rejected at a subsequent referendum in 2023, with the government noting that further action on Treaty and Truth will take some time. [1]