Across regional and rural centres, people living within a stone’s throw of sheep paddocks voted Yes.
On the day Anthony Albanese confirmed the referendum for a Voice to parliament would be held on October 14, opposition Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was in Hobart.
Yet, with most votes now counted, it is clear the “woke inner-city” is not confined to the craft beers and artisanal sour dough of suburbs like Brunswick or Erskineville. Just up the road is the city of Wagga Wagga, the population heart of the electorate of Riverina, held safely by former Nationals leader Michael McCormack.
In the neighbouring seat of Bendigo, a Yes vote snaked its way along communities attached to Melbourne via the main railway line. Castlemaine, an old gold mining area, delivered Yes majorities close to 70 per cent. Again and again, these rural or regional-based centres of Yes votes emerge. In Cairns, the population centre of the Leichhardt electorate which voted 34-66 No, the Parramatta Park booth in the city centre voted 58-42 in favour of change.
In the case of Albury, about one-in-five of the city’s residents are in professions. The single largest occupation group, accounting for 4.8 per cent of the population, are hospital workers. In the Melbourne electorate of Scullin, which covers safe Labor suburbs such as Thomastown, Epping and Mill Park, the No vote was 63 per cent.
To his immediate west, the seat of Watson – held by Industrial Relations Minister Tony Burke – recorded a No vote of 59 per cent. The Yes vote gets lower the further west you travel.Within Watson there are three booths in the suburb of Lakemba. The booths at the Samoan Presbyterian Church and St Therese’s Catholic Primary School voted No 47-53. However, just a few hundred metres away the Hampden Park Primary School voted Yes 65-35. It was the electorate’s highest Yes vote.
According to Shoebridge, the efforts in these electorates and others across western Sydney showed the Yes vote could have tapped the support of different ethnic and religious communities.
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