CANBERRA, Australia: Australia's Senate voted on Monday (Jun 19) to hold a referendum this year on creating an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, an advocate aiming to give the nation’s most disadvantaged ethnic minority more say on government policy. Dozens of mainly Indigenous people stood up the public g
CANBERRA, Australia: Australia's Senate voted on Monday to hold a referendum this year on creating an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, an advocate aiming to give the nation’s most disadvantaged ethnic minority more say on government policy.
If the referendum is passed, it would be Australia’s first successful referendum since 1977 and the first ever to pass without bipartisan support. Opposition Sen. Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, who is Indigenous, said the Voice proposal was already dividing Australia along racial lines.“I want to see Australia move forward as one, not two divided. That’s why I will be voting ‘no,’” Price added.
Assistant Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy said providing Indigenous people with a Voice was a “very simple request” and urged all sides to keep the debate respectful. Australia’s House of Representatives last month voted overwhelming in support of holding the referendum.
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