A proposal to recognize Indigenous people in Australia’s constitution has been defeated, the country’s major broadcasters project.
Supporters of Yes vote listen to the results at a "Yes2023 Official Referendum Function" in Sydney on October 14, 2023. The first polls have closed in Australia's bitterly fought referendum on Indigenous rights, with early results suggesting voters are set to reject reforms to the 122-year-old constitution.
“‘Yes’ means listening to them on matters that affect them so we get better outcomes,” he said. “‘Yes’ will enhance our democracy.” That the Voice would have created a purely advisory body with scant power — while carrying significant moral weight for indigenous people who have been marginalized for centuries — wasThe opposition Liberal-National coalition, which has backed indigenous reconciliation efforts and even a version of the Voice in the past, threw its weight behind the No campaign, in what many saw as a cynical effort by Liberal leader Peter Dutton to damage Mr. Albanese. For his part, Mr.
Lidia Thorpe, an independent Senator and leader of the so-called progressive No campaign, said Australians never should have been voting on the fate of indigenous people like herself. She had opposed the Voice on the grounds that it did not go far enough, and said Saturday she would always take “better representation rather than some advisory body with no teeth.”
Thomas Mayo, one of the signatories of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, a document drafted by indigenous groups which initially proposed the Voice, blamed its defeat on a “disgusting No campaign, a campaign that has been dishonest and lied to the Australian people.”
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