South Australia will go ahead with its state Voice in the face of calls to repeal the legislation, after a national Indigenous Voice to Parliament was rejected in the referendum vote.
South Australia is going ahead with its own state-based Indigenous Voice body, despite residents rejecting the constitutionally enshrined proposal on Saturday. All states voted against the Indigenous Voice to Parliament — which would have been a body of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people advising the government on issues particularly impacting Indigenous Australians. South Australia recorded the second-highest No vote at 64.5 per cent, only trailing Queensland at 68.
But it paused the establishment of the body for six months in June, with the state government arguing it was "causing confusion" with the national vote. Malinauskas is facing pressure from the Opposition to walk back the state's Voice legislation. SA Opposition leader David Speirs said given the proportion of people that have voted No, he'd be open to reassessing whether the Voice should go ahead. "We've got a state-based Voice here in SA.
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