Australia’s PM Faces Uphill Battle for Unity After Voice Defeat

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese faces a battle to reunite a extra divided nation after one of many cornerstone guarantees of his election, to incorporate a voice for Indigenous individuals within the nation’s structure, failed at a referendum.

Albanese emerged ashen-faced earlier than reporters on Saturday night time after it was clear that the Voice to Parliament referendum had been comprehensively defeated. With greater than half of the vote counted, about 59% of the citizens opposed the measure and 41% supported it.