Indigenous communities overwhelmingly voted yes to Australia’s voice to parliament

Of the 11,000 people that live in remote areas of the Northern Territory’s largest electorate, Lingiari, 74% voted yes, according to figures provided by Labor MP Marion Scrymgour.
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Regions with a high proportion of Indigenous Australians overwhelmingly voted yes in the referendum – including the community where prominent no campaigner Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s family is from.

The yes vote in polling catchments where Indigenous Australians formed more than 50% of the population was, on average, 63% in favour of enshrining an Indigenous voice to parliament, according to political analyst Simon Jackman, who estimated the proportion of Indigenous Australians at each polling area based on data from the 2022 election.