An exclusive survey shows 59 per cent of Indigenous voters are in favour of the proposal, down from Yes campaign estimates of 80 per cent in January, but still far higher than the broader community.
A clear majority of First Australians are backing the Indigenous Voice in the final phase of the referendum despite a big fall in their support this year.
The new survey, conducted for this masthead by Resolve Strategic, put questions to Indigenous voters as part of a broader poll that found 44 per cent of Australians supported the Voice, while“We achieved small samples of Indigenous people as part of our monthly tracking on the Voice in late 2022 and early 2023,” Resolve director Jim Reed said.
While Indigenous people represent about 3 per cent of the population, the Resolve survey conducted an “over-sample” to seek the views of First Australians without skewing the wider respondent base, which reflects the demographics of the voting public. “This is about just two things that we have an opportunity to do: to recognise the First Australians in our nation’s founding document, and secondly, to do it in the form in which they have requested,” he said last Thursday.The Uluru Dialogue, based at the University of NSW with Professor Megan Davis as co-chair, commissioned research company Ipsos to ask Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders aged 18 and over about the Voice from January 20 to 24.
The Resolve questions were put to voters between September 22 and October 4 using standard online survey methods, which can face difficulties gathering responses from Indigenous Australians in rural or remote areas who may be unable or unwilling to participate in an online poll.
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