Wadeye is a community of nearly 2000, deeply divided by 22 clan groups, but on the question of if there should be an Indigenous Voice to parliament, it was united.
Tobias Nganbe is angry about the results of the referendum to enshrine an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice in the Constitution.
Citing Wadeye in her first speech to parliament a few weeks after the riots, Northern Territory Liberal National Party senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price said people knew about the town and others like it for “the worst reasons”. “I can see a time when people will understand,” he says. “Here in Wadeye, we will be talking to as many people as we can to try and make everybody understand the life we are in, the struggles we are in.”
While the electorate of Durack, which spans from the northern suburbs of Perth to the top of WA and across to the NT border, returned a 28 per cent Yes vote, Indigenous communities around Halls Creek returned 89 per cent. On the other side of Australia’s top end on Iama Island in the Torres Strait, about halfway between Australia and Papua New Guinea, Getano Lui is another who is disappointed by Saturday’s result. A representative for Iama on the Torres Strait Island Regional Council and its deputy mayor, Lui is a relentless advocate for his community.
In the broader electorate of Leichhardt the Yes vote was just 34 per cent and Kennedy 19 per cent. Lui says the overwhelming No vote will not be well received by his community, but at heart he was an optimist.
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