All eyes are on how Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will respond to the defeat of the Voice referendum after three quarters of Labor's House of Representative seats voted No.
Despite months of campaigning from the Prime Minister and Indigenous leaders, the Voice to Parliament was unable to secure support on October 14, withIn addition to the disappointment of many supporters, the result is a potentially damaging one for Mr Albanese who had championed the Voice since he was first elected to the top job last year.
The national vote sat at 40.3 per cent Yes and 59.7 per cent No on Saturday evening. Picture: Sky News Australia In total, three quarters of Labor held seats voted No in the referendum, with calls from within the party to return to basic policies likely to grow louder as a result. Those will likely include migration and cybersecurity, while attention may also turn to pushing ahead with the government's other planned reforms to industrial relations.
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