Polls suggest up to 60 per cent of Australians could vote No in the Voice referendum. We went to the early voting centres to find out why.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is not the only reason the Voice to parliament is staring at defeat on October 14.In 11 days, when voting has closed, counting has finished and the first drafts of history come to be written, Price’s early intervention to ensure the National Party was voting No – long before the Liberals adopted a position – will come to be seen as perhaps the decisive moment if No succeeds.
With petrol prices past $2 a litre, a big spike in the cost of mortgages and rents and other household bills rising, “a lot of people are voting No because they feel like the PM is not paying attention to them economically”.The polls, including the Resolve Political Monitor, certainly suggest voters have turned on the Voice: from 64 per cent support in September 2022 to 43 per cent support in September 2023.
A majority of voters over the age of 35 are voting No, as are people in the outer suburbs, the regions, Coalition voters, people who have a trade or school qualification, religious voters and those on lower and middle incomes – a broad cross-section of Australians, according to the Resolve Political Monitor’s September polling.
Barbara, a volunteer for the No campaign at an early voting station in Camberwell, said she believed in Price. An older woman named Mary, who did not want to give her last name or be in a photo and who voted No, said: “I think they have enough rights as it is. Even the Aborigines, some of them want to vote No.”
“Same-sex marriage won progressives over by forcing a better outcome for that group, but it also got the practical middle too because it awarded equal opportunities to individuals regardless of their attributes. That’s what wins social issues in Australia, and the Voice is failing there because it treats individuals differently,” he said.
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