Areas that had large populations of Indigenous Australians were mostly in favour of the Voice, data from polling booths has shown.
The government is still facing the fallout from the failure of the Voice to Parliament referendum on Saturday.
Recent data from remote polling booths in the Northern Territory and Queensland has suggested otherwise has shown how Indigenous Australians voted.
Wadeye in the NT’s north had a 91 per cent Yes vote, while the Tiwi Islands, north of Darwin and which has an Indigenous population of 87 per cent, had support for the Voice at 84 per cent.
Palm Island in Far North Queensland has an Indigenous population of 91 per cent, with polling booths in the area having a 75 per cent Yes vote.
Areas that had large populations of Indigenous Australians were mostly in favour of the Voice, data from polling booths has shown (pictured is booth in Midland, Perth)
Also in Queensland, Mornington Island had 78 per cent of voters supporting the Voice. The Indigenous population is higher than 80 per cent.
In Broome, in Western Australia, there is an Indigenous population of around 30 per cent. The Yes campaign secured 56 per cent of votes in the region.
Three in four of the 740 living in Yuendemu also supported the referendum. Some of Ms Price’s family live in the community.
Meanwhile, in the Northern Territory seat of Lingiari, which has an Indigenous population of 40 per cent, there was just a 44 per cent Yes vote.
The Yes campaign had said 80 per cent of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were in favour of the Voice – an argument rejected by the No camp.
‘When I knew, having spoken to people throughout the Northern Territory, to Indigenous people from the Northern Territory and right across the country, particularly in my role as the shadow minister for Indigenous Australians, that a vast group of Indigenous Australians did not support the proposal,’ no campaigner Jacinta Price said.
There have since been calls for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to resign following the failure of the Voice referendum (Pictured is Mr Albanese with a Yolngu Elder in East Arnhem land)
There have since been calls for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to resign following the failure of the Voice referendum.
Sky News commentator Andrew Bolt urged the prime minister to throw in the towel while South Australia’s Opposition Leader David Speirs joined in on the chorus.
A referendum defeat has toppled leaders around the world in the past with UK prime minister David Cameron resigning following Brexit in 2016.
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