As little as 10 weeks out from the polls, the public meetings, letters-to-the-editors and door knocking are intensifying and both sides are running the numbers.
In the right states, that’s all the votes needed to stop changes to the constitution to acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and establish a Voice, opponents believe.
– looks set to dominate the national political debate between now and voting day. John Howard called the political number crunching “the iron laws of arithmetic”. The national enrolment rate for the vote will be a record 97.5 per cent, and the sustained work to sign up Indigenous voters is paying clear dividends for the Commission. About 60,000 new First Nations voters have signed up, bringing the estimated Indigenous enrolment rate to 94.1 per cent, up from 84.5 per cent at the end of last year.
“We have got work to do,” he told the crowd of about 400 people. “The time for talking and making grand statements is done; we’ve got to get moving.” It is planning an advertising blitz and has rejected criticism from controversial spokesman and former MP Gary Johns, after he suggested Indigenous people should undergo blood tests to access welfare benefits.Opponents of the Voice have history on their side, as Australians traditionally reject referendum proposals, especially when there is a partisan divide on the question.
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