Albanese Warns on Indigenous Vote Failure as Poll Support Wanes
- PM and First Nations leaders present a defiant front at Garma
- But some voice concerns over falling polls and rising racism
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wanted the biggest annual festival of Indigenous Australians to re-ignite his legacy-defining referendum on allowing them an advisory body to Parliament. But with just months of campaigning left, there’s growing concern the vote could fail.
Albanese used his weekend appearance at the Garma Festival in the Northern Territory to warn that campaigners against the Voice to Parliament, which he is promoting as crucial to lifting living standards for Indigenous Australians, were taking an “indefensible” position.