Sausage sizzles, colourful pamphlets and high tensions are expected when voters turn out to cast their ballots in the biggest electoral event in Australia’s history.
Millions of people will enter about 8000 polling stations on October 14 to vote on whether they wish to have a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
According to Ms Ketchell, who has helped co-ordinate pro-Voice volunteer efforts in Far North Queensland, there has been a number of “outbursts” made against campaigners ranging from people yelling from their cars to confrontations on the street. On Saturday, October 14, local schools, churches and town halls will host voting centres, with polls open from 8am to 6pm.
“We’ll have captains who will lead each booth and they will brief the volunteers, ensuring that their safety and wellbeing is our priority and that we have support for them,” Ms Ketchell said. More Australians than ever are enrolled to vote, with 97.7 per cent of the eligible population or more than 17.5 million people set to cast ballots.
He said the voting body would be closely monitoring any risks of natural disasters impacting people’s ability to vote after dozens of bushfires were reported across NSW this week.
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