Red dirt, rivers and roads: mobile polls head to remote Australia for the voice referendum

The AEC says that in Western Australia, almost 3,000 votes have been cast. Photograph: Tamati Smith/Getty Images

In the Aboriginal community of Pia Wadjarri, in the Mid West region of Western Australia, the voting station sits in the middle of a basketball court with more than a dozen homes clustered around.

The polling booth for the Indigenous voice to parliament referendum, about eight hours north of Perth, was open on Wednesday and locals, as well as people from distant cattle stations and farms, came in to cast their vote.