Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles vows commitment to closing the gap in Indigenous living standards.
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles said next steps forward will take time for the government to work through. / Photo: Reuters Archive
Every state and mainland territory apart from the Australian Capital Territory voted against a proposal to enshrine in the constitution an Indigenous Voice to Parliament to advocate on behalf of the nation’s most disadvantaged ethnic minority. “In terms of exactly what the precise steps forward are from here is a matter that we need to take some time to work through and I think people can understand that,” Marles told Australian Broadcasting Corp.Indigenous women sit on a bench at a polling place in Redfern as Australians cast their final votes in Sydney, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. / Photo: APIndigenous Voice campaigners were flying Aboriginal flags at half-staff across Australia on Sunday as a mark of their disappointment.
Accounting for only 3.8 percent of the population, Indigenous Australians have a suicide rate twice that of the national average, are more likely to be incarcerated than other Australians and suffer from diseases in the remote Outback that have been eradicated from other wealthy countries.There was majority support for the Voice in Outback polling booths in the Northern Territory.
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