Premier snubs Yes campaign event for Polish Club’s birthday bash
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has snubbed the Yes campaign event for the Brisbane Polish Club’s 70th birthday bash as the Voice referendum was voted out.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has snubbed the Yes campaign event for the Brisbane Polish Club’s 70th birthday bash as the Voice referendum was voted out.
Voters in traditional Labor ‘battler’ seats of Sydney led the No vote, with one Western Sydney Mayor saying the referendum was not a priority for families struggling with the cost of living.
Launching a referendum campaign without a clear message beyond it’s ‘the right thing to do’ was the most reckless political adventure we have ever seen, and Australians responded with a resounding No, writes Peta Credlin.
It wasn’t the No campaign that won this battle. The Yes side just lost it, argues Matt Cunningham.
More than one million Australians have already cast their votes ahead of the Voice referendum. See two-minute guide to voting.
As pre-polling begins, in Labor’s Hunter Valley heartland there seems scant support for the Voice. And in key Labor seats in Sydney, many still don’t have an answer.
Everything from boats to planes are being called in to help officials overcome one major challenge to communities in the state’s most remote reaches.
The No campaign’s star performer told the media in Adelaide she thought election rules favoured the other side.
The Advertiser exit polls conducted at five voting locations across Adelaide on day one of pre-polling show how many have already said Yes and No.
Yes and No campaigners have butted heads during the opening hours of the first Voice to Parliament polls, with “heated” scenes at a northeastern booth.
Former prime minister Julia Gillard has been joined by a drag queen singing John Farnham’s anthem ‘The Voice’ to launch the official Yes23 campaign in London.
The Voice is a “modest proposal, but profound,” Yes campaigner and Cape York Indigenous leader Noel Pearson has declared in a stirring plea to Australians to back the referendum.
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