A central argument of the Voice referendum was the attitude of Indigenous Australians to the question. Voting booth data shows they backed Yes in large numbers.
Polling booths servicing majority Indigenous populations were more likely to support the Yes referendum, a breakdown of electorates across the entire country shows.
The community of Palm Island, which sits in the Queensland electorate of Herbert, had at the last census an Indigenous population of 91 per cent. The seat of Lingiari, which covers all of the Northern Territory bar Darwin, has the highest proportion of Indigenous residents in the country at 40 per cent. It also, traditionally, has one of the lowest turnouts at elections of any seat in the country. At least year’s federal election, just two-thirds of people on the electoral roll in Lingiari cast a ballot.
In the vast Western Australian electorate of Durack, booths servicing Indigenous majority populations such as Halls Creek, Fitzroy Crossing and Wyndham all voted Yes to the Voice. Of all Durack voters, 13 per cent identify as Indigenous. In the NSW seat of Parkes, centres such as Brewarrina, Bourke and Coonamble, all with relatively large indigenous populations, had higher Yes votes than the electorate’s overall result of 21 per cent.
But Health Minister Mark Butler said the figures showed Indigenous Australians were highly supportive of the Yes case.
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