Vitriol Rises, Enrollments Jump Ahead of Australia’s Indigenous Voice Vote
- Australians are set to vote in the first referendum since 1999
- ‘Yes’ campaign holds major events and marches across Australia
Demonstrators at a rally supporting the Indigenous "Voice to Parliament" in Sydney on Sunday.
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Celebrity endorsements and huge marches across Australia in support of the “yes” campaign for an Indigenous Voice to to be included in the constitution have so far failed to reverse mounting opposition to the proposal ahead of a referendum.
Australia will vote Oct. 14 on whether to write an Indigenous advisory body to Parliament into its constitution, as recommended by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander elders in 2017 and picked up by center-left Prime Minister Anthony Albanese five years later.