A conservative think tank says fact checking agencies, verifying claims made during the Voice to Parliament referendum campaign, were overwhelmingly biased against the No campaign. Institute of Public Affairs research analysed 187 fact checks undertaken by AAP FactCheck, RMIT FactLab and RMIT/ABC Fact Check between the 2022 federal election andContinue Reading
An Indigenous Labor senator says racism was “absolutely a feature” of the Voice to Parliament campaign and had been experienced by many, rebuffing claims made by leading No campaigners. On the back of the defeat of the referendum, Jana Stewart – the youngest First Nations woman to be elected inContinue Reading
Every state in Australia rejected the Voice to parliament on Saturday but only one state said No in all of its electorates. South Australia recorded a whopping 64.4 per cent No vote, the second highest in the country after Queensland. Even the state’s inner-city seats delivered tight No victories, whileContinue Reading
The crushing defeat of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum could risk further uncertainty for the future of state and territory-based Voices to parliament. Indigenous advisory bodies are not new in Australia with some states and territories having already established, or are working towards the implementation of, Indigenous-led bodies informingContinue Reading
Rookie MP Jacinta Nampijinpa Price broke down in tears during the referendum campaign as she described her role as a “vessel” for Indigenous people ignored by mainstream politics and media. But from her entry to federal politics just last year, there has been no ignoring Senator Price. She had aContinue Reading
Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe has attacked the referendum campaign for “killing” her community and insisting white Australia must now commence treaty negotiations. Claiming suicide rates have increased as a result of the divisive debate, Senator Thorpe said Anthony Albanese’s decision to hold a referendum had caused real harm. “This yearContinue Reading
A leading Australian pollster has revealed the startling socio-economic divide between the suburbs expected to vote No in the Voice to parliament referendum and the suburbs likely to swing Yes. Kos Samaras, director at influential polling firm Redbridge, tweeted a map of Victorian electorates based on the firm’s polling data.Continue Reading
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has stressed that voting multiple times in the Voice referendum is an offence, after an X post on Tuesday went viral with some No supporters claiming the federal agency was encouraging double voting. The AEC’s post on X, which has been viewed nearly 700,000 timesContinue Reading
Police are hunting for vandals who defaced speed limit road signs to read ‘No’ across regional South Australia in another mark of a growing ugliness in the Voice to parliament referendum campaign. Motorists across the state reported the altered signs, with the 110 speed limit figure vandalised to read “No”Continue Reading
A senior Liberal politician has been caught threatening an elderly constituent who emailed her in support of the proposed Voice to Parliament. Senator Sarah Henderson sent an email two weeks ago to a list of people she claimed registered to attend the launch of the official No campaign in VictoriaContinue Reading