The latest Guardian Essential poll shows the yes vote rose two points to 43% over the past fortnight.
SYDNEY: Support for an Australian constitutional referendum on Indigenous rights and recognition has edged higher, according to a poll published on Tuesday, although a majority of voters still intend to vote no when polls close in less than two weeks.
With early voting now open across the country until polls close on Oct 14, the “hard no” group in the survey of 1,125 voters outnumbered the “hard yes” respondents 42% to 30%. The referendum, the first since a failed vote in 1999 on making Australia a republic, asks voters whether to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution and create a “Voice to Parliament” to give them an avenue to advise the government on matters affecting First Nations Australians.
Altering the constitution is notoriously difficult and only eight referendums have passed since 1901 when the country was formed. The proposal must get a majority of votes nationwide and at least four of the six states must back the change.
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