15 Oct 2023

Natasha Frost: The Voice Referendum

From Sunday Morning, 10:15 am on 15 October 2023

On Saturday, 14 October 2023, Australians had their say in a referendum about whether to change the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing a body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. 

Natasha Frost is the New York Times correspondent based in Melbourne. 

(FILES) In this photo taken on October 3, 2023, a woman handing out brochures walks past referendum promotional posters outside a voting centre in central Sydney. On October 14, 2023 almost 18 million Australians will decide whether to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution for the first time, and whether to create a permanent Indigenous consultative body. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY AUSTRALIA-INDIGENOUS-REFERENDUM-MISINFORMATION, BY JOSEPH OLBRYCHT PALMER

Photo: DAVID GRAY

 

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