Opposing campaigners have made their final pitches over changing the Australia’s constitution to acknowledge a place for Indigenous Australians on the eve of the nation’s first referendum in a generation. Saturday's referendum has the potential to amend Australia’s founding legal document for the first time since 1977.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shows his support for a yes vote during a visit to Adelaide, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. Advocates for and against a referendum that would acknowledge Indigenous Australians in the nation’s constitution campaigned for a final day on the eve of the first such ballot in Australia in a generation. Robbie Thorpe talks during a NAIDOC, National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee, march in Melbourne, July 6, 2018.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, a leading Voice advocate, cited the Israel-Hamas war to underscore why Australians should vote “yes” out of kindness toward the Indigenous population. “He’s instinctively won their hearts because Australians do want better outcomes for Indigenous Australians, but he hasn’t won their minds,” Dutton told Australian Broadcasting Corp.
Many progressives argue the constitution should more importantly acknowledge that Indigenous Australians never ceded their land to British colonizers and a treaty was a higher priority than a Voice.
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