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Interactive: See how your polling booth voted on the Voice
All Australian states voted no to an Indigenous Voice on Saturday and, in less than 90 minutes, the referendum was defeated.
The highest Yes vote in the country came from Central Carlton, in the Adam Bandt electorate of Melbourne, which voted 93 per cent in favour of the constitutional change. The highest No vote landed at the booth of Yetman, in Barnaby Joyce’s north-west NSW seat of New England, where 96.3 per cent of residents rejected the Voice.
Explore the interactive below to see how the vote was cast at different polling centres in your city.
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As millions of Australians cast their vote on Saturday, my concern was how I’d explain the nation’s decision to my kids if the Voice was rejected. I am now faced with this reality.
Nathanael Scott is a senior developer with the Visual Stories Team at The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Brisbane Times and WAtoday.Connect via email.