While every state and territory apart from the ACT rejected the proposed Voice to parliament in Saturday’s referendum, Indigenous communities resoundingly supported it.
That support appears to have fallen slightly short of the 80 per cent predicted by the Yes campaign in advertisements before the vote, based on polling by YouGov and Ipsos.
However it was a different matter in the electorate’s remote, mostly Indigenous communities. Twenty-one remote polling teams from the Australian Electoral Commission surveyed these communities, and all but one of them returned a Yes vote. The population of Lingiari’s other major settlement, Palmerston, is only 15 per cent Indigenous, and it voted No overwhelmingly, with the Yes side earning just 22 per cent of the tally. (The part of Palmerston withinMoving east to Queensland, the story is similar, with small Indigenous communities supporting the Voice but most areas opposing it., had an Indigenous population of 91 per cent at the census. Three-quarters of its residents voted Yes., voted 78 per cent Yes.
Those booths included Halls Creek, with a 78 per cent Indigenous population and a narrow 52 per cent Yes vote; and Fitzroy Crossing, with a 62 per cent Indigenous population and a more comfortable 71 per cent in favour.“Of course, there was not complete uniformity of opinion in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. There’s not about anything, in any community,” Health Minister Mark Butler said while speaking to Sky News.
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