# Albanese announces proposed Voice referendum constitutional wording

Date: 2023

The 2023 Australian [Indigenous Voice referendum](/drivers/indigenous-voice-referendum) was a constitutional referendum held on 14 October 2023 in which the proposed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice was rejected. Voters were asked to approve an alteration to the Australian Constitution that would recognise Indigenous Australians in the document through prescribing a body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice that would have been able to make representations to Federal Parliament and the executive government on "matters…

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