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The arguments for yes and no
Gabrielle Appleby | September 2, 2023Australians will be asked to vote “yes” or “no” to a constitutional amendment establishing a Voice to Parliament in October, so what are the arguments for and against the idea?
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Who has the loudest voice on social media?
Andrea Carson | September 1, 2023Support for the Voice to Parliament has fallen steadily over the past 12 months, despite a well funded media campaign and sympathetic coverage on the ABC and other media outlets, leaving its advocates with a hill to climb before the referendum in October.
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Will the vote for the Voice unite or divide us?
Michelle Grattan | August 31, 2023The stakes in October’s referendum are high for politicians on both sides of the fence, not least Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton, and the country as a whole.
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Australia to vote on October 14
Anne Twomey | August 31, 2023Australians will go to the polls on October 14 to vote in a referendum on an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice in the first federal referendum since the Republic was voted down in 1999.
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Treaties aren’t scary, and a draft bill saying how the voice will work might be worth the risk
Dominic O'Sullivan | August 10, 2023Support for the Yes campaign in the Voice Referendum continues to slump, and so it may be time for the government to publish a draft of the Bill it plans to put to parliament, should the referendum pass.