'If not now, when?': Emotional Australian PM advances Indigenous referendum

The referendum question to be put to Australians will be: "A Proposed Law: to alter the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. "We will decide in due course whether we support the Voice or oppose it," Dutton told reporters. Since Australian independence in 1901, there have been 44 proposals for constitutional change in 19 referendums, and only eight have been approved. Opponents criticised the wording of that referendum, and Albanese has said he would aim to frame the current question as simply and clearly as possible. The opposition conservative coalition had been demanding funding for campaign groups who support and oppose the referendum but the government has made no promise.