Reckoning with rights: the Voice Referendum
Hunter, Ernest (2025) Reckoning with rights: the Voice Referendum. Australasian Psychiatry, 33 (1). pp. 21-24.
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Abstract
Objective: Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians are dismayed by the rejection of the 2023 Voice Referendum and its amplification of social divisions. This article considers a recent article in Australasian Psychiatry in which matters of motivation, process and outcome are raised that provides the scaffolding to explore these issues. Conclusions: The breakdown of bipartisan political support and subsequent politicisation of the Referendum process resulted in claims regarding the reasons for and consequences of the Referendum that were not consistent with the process leading to the Uluru Statement. The outcome has been socially divisive and a cause of significant distress for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, the majority of whom voted in support of the Voice.
| Item ID: | 88315 |
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| Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
| ISSN: | 1440-1665 |
| Keywords: | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Indigenous, Referendum, violence, Voice, wellbeing |
| Copyright Information: | © The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 2024. |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Apr 2026 04:09 |
| FoR Codes: | 32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES > 3202 Clinical sciences > 320221 Psychiatry (incl. psychotherapy) @ 50% 45 INDIGENOUS STUDIES > 4504 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing > 450416 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander psychology @ 50% |
| SEO Codes: | 20 HEALTH > 2004 Public health (excl. specific population health) > 200409 Mental health @ 100% |
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