A postal vote ballot paper for the Voice to Parliament referendum. (ABC News: Freya Michie)In another post to X last week and viewed more than 100,000 times, a user who had apparently enrolled as ...

If you leave your ballot paper blank, your vote will automatically count as “Yes” in the Voice referendum. Our verdict. False. A blank ballot paper is considered an informal vote — it won ...

The ballot paper itself will be very different - it'll come with a binary question, and a single box to fill out. The Voice referendum ballot will come with clear instructions to write "Yes" or "No".

Australians will vote in a referendum on Saturday to recognise the country's First inhabitants, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people, in its constitution.

Under referendum laws, voting centres cannot open on a public holiday. Australian Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers said voters should plan ahead if they’re unable to vote in person on October 14.

There will be only one question on the ballot paper, which will read as follows: “A Proposed Law: to alter the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an ...

On the referendum ballot paper you need to indicate your vote by clearly writing: YES in the box if you approve the proposed alteration or NO in the box if you do not approve the proposed alteration.

Australia on Saturday decisively rejected a proposal to recognise Indigenous people in the constitution, in a major setback to the country's efforts for reconciliation with its First Peoples.

The referendum, on whether to set up a body to advise Parliament on Aboriginal issues, has bitterly divided Australia and given rise to a slew of baseless claims on social media, including that ...

Australian elections and referendums use paper ballots marked with pencils. The Voice referendum would be the first in Australian history to be passed without bipartisan political support.

A sample example of a referendum ballot paper. (Supplied: Australian Electoral Commission)Voters will only need to answer either "Yes" or "No" in response to the proposed question. This means you ...