Australians have until 8pm to ensure they're enrolled to vote in the Voice to Parliament referendum. The 'yes' campaign for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament received a boost over the weekend with tens of thousands of supporters marching in major cities and tonight Adelaide will host a major 'vote no' campaign event.
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00:00 There were hundreds of thousands of Australians turned out to march in support of the Yes
00:07 campaign, not just across the country, but across the world.
00:11 We saw streets, main streets around Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide absolutely packed
00:19 with people.
00:20 But we also saw lots of regional areas as well turning out in support of the voice.
00:26 And there was even a collective of people overseas in New York who marched across the
00:33 Brooklyn Bridge in support of the Yes campaign for a voice to Parliament.
00:38 Now as you say, this comes at a time when the enrolment to change your voting is closing
00:44 today.
00:45 So if you need to change or update your details with the Australian Electoral Commission,
00:49 you have until 8pm tonight to do that.
00:52 The Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers has said not to delay and that that will be the
00:56 best democratic base for participation that Australia has ever had.
01:01 And he said since the announcement of the referendum, there have been over 240,000
01:08 enrolment transactions submitted.
01:10 That's approximately 15,000 per day.
01:13 So around 97.5% of the country enrolled to vote.
01:18 They'll be wanting to get those numbers as close to 100% as they can, heading towards
01:24 that deadline of 8pm tonight.
01:27 But speaking earlier today about the turnout for the Yes campaign, here's the Home Affairs
01:33 Minister Claire O'Neill.
01:36 Australians are warm, generous, beautiful people.
01:39 There is no question in my mind that we live in the greatest country in the world.
01:43 And I think the tone that we saw of those marches on the weekend is what I hope and
01:46 pray will be the predominant tone of the debate.
01:49 I am a fierce advocate of yes.
01:51 It is really important to me that First Nations people who have been advocating and fighting
01:56 for a voice for decades are given that gracious ask by the Australian people.
02:02 Dana, what about the No campaign?
02:04 What has it been up to?
02:06 Well, as you mentioned earlier, there is a No campaign event in Adelaide tonight that'll
02:11 be at the Convention Centre with Warren Mundine and Jacinta Numpagimpa-Price.
02:17 Around 1,000 people are believed to have RSVP'd to attend that event so far.
02:21 It's happening around 7pm Eastern time, so we'll bring you those details probably through
02:27 the night and into the morning as well.
02:30 Warren Mundine was also on the ABC's Insiders program on Sunday, and that's where he was
02:35 asked a few interesting things around the campaign.
02:39 Firstly, he said that he would back a treaty process and that he believes that treaty has
02:45 more success, more chance of being successful if a No vote wins on October 14.
02:52 He also said he would advocate to change the date of Australia Day from January 26.
02:58 Those are a couple of noteworthy views, particularly because the No campaign outfit for Australia
03:03 last week was reported to be using a script to train volunteers to cold call people in
03:11 an attempt to get them to vote No in the voiced Parliament referendum.
03:15 Part of that script had volunteers raising the fact that treaty and potential changes
03:21 to Australia Day are causes of concern for the No campaign, so it's interesting to see
03:27 one of the leaders, Warren Mundine, there saying that he backs both of those things.
03:32 We also saw on Friday night Jacinta Numpagin-Papryce attended a bit of a rally in Melbourne.
03:38 It was in sort of a town hall style situation.
03:41 She attended that with hundreds of people, including fellow senators Bridget McKenzie,
03:46 Sarah Henderson, Jane Hume and James Paterson.
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