With a date, feelgood factor needed to get to Yes

There’s a lot to be done before October 14 if the Yes campaign is to turn the predicted result around.

Tom McIlroyCanberra Bureau Chief

Sep 1, 2023 – 3.27pm

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As a doctoral student at Oxford University in the 1990s, Matt Qvortrup was taught that Australia’s 1967 landmark vote on Indigenous rights represented the world’s “best referendum”.

The push to give parliament powers to make laws about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and to count them in the national census won more than 90 per cent support from voters – Australia’s biggest ever endorsement of a referendum question.

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Tom McIlroyCanberra Bureau ChiefTom McIlroy is the Financial Review’s Canberra bureau chief based in the press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously the AFR’s political correspondent.