Australia's Indigenous Voice referendum, if approved, would form 'Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice' – a formal body that would give indigenous population a greater say on policies that affect their lives
Australians are set to go to polls later this year to say"yes" or"no" to a proposed law recognising the First Peoples of Australia by forming an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. But what exactly are they voting for?
If amended, the Constitution will have a new chapter titled "Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples." When the centre-left Labor Party won elections in May last year, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used his first speech to commit his government to creating the Voice.Australia is unusual among former British colonies in that no treaty was ever signed with the nation’s Indigenous inhabitants. The Aboriginal people of Australia’s mainland are culturally distinct from Torres Strait Islanders who come from an archipelago off the northeast coast.
Even lawmakers who oppose the Voice are unlikely to anger constituents by standing in the way of the referendum going ahead. “On every measure, there is a gap between the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the national average,” Albanese said.
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