Australia casts vote on enshrining Indigenous Voice into constitution

Volunteers talks with people coming to vote at a polling place in Redfern as Australians cast their final votes in Sydney (Rick Rycroft/AP)

Australians cast their votes on Saturday in the country’s first referendum in a generation as they decided whether to enshrine an Indigenous advocacy committee in the constitution.

The Voice would be a committee comprised of and chosen by Indigenous Australians that would advise the Parliament and government on issues that affect the nation’s most disadvantaged ethnic minority.