Polling catchments where Indigenous Australians form more than 50% of the population voted on average 63% in favour of the voice
Of the 11,000 people that live in remote areas of the Northern Territory’s largest electorate, Lingiari, 74% voted yes, according to figures provided by Labor MP Marion Scrymgour.Of the 11,000 people that live in remote areas of the Northern Territory’s largest electorate, Lingiari, 74% voted yes, according to figures provided by Labor MP Marion Scrymgour.
But the referendum was defeated under the weight of much of the rest of the country voting no. Nationally, only 39.6% of the population voted in favour, while 60.4% ruled it out.“This was so important for Indigenous people,” said Yanyuwa woman and Labor senator for the Northern Territory, Malarndirri McCarthy, on the ABC on Saturday night, as the reality of the defeat sunk in.
But 74% of the 11,000 people that live in Lingiari’s remote areas voted yes, according to figures provided by Labor MP for Lingiari, Marion Scrymgour. In Yuendemu, the community home to the family of Price, shadow minister for Indigenous Australians, three in four people voted yes. On Mornington Island, where 77% of the population is Indigenous, McCarthy said 79% voted yes. And in Lockhart River, where almost 80% of people are Indigenous, 66% voted in favour.
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