How will WA's vast landscape and wide array of Indigenous viewpoints affect how it votes in Voice referendum?
Western Australia's vastness, the variety of different Aboriginal views and experiences of entrenched disadvantage are likely to shape the state's coming vote on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. Key points: Western Australia's leaders have differing opinions on the Voice referendum Some believe it will help unite Indigenous and non-Indigenous people Others believe it will offer little practical benefit to Indigenous Australians That's the view of Yamatji Noongar woman and law lecturer at the University of Western Australia, Karinda Burns. Western Australia had the lowest "Yes" vote of any state in the 1967 referendum to count Indigenous people in the census that would allow the Commonwealth to consider them in laws, at 80.95 per cent. "I do have some outstanding concerns about what this will mean from a practical sense, and how the Voice will improve outcomes for Aboriginal people, or our First Nations people," Ms Mettam said. West Australian Professor Peter Yu is urging people to vote "Yes" in the Voice to Parliament referendum.
A record number of Australians enroll to vote in referendum on Indigenous Voice
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