Indigenous reconciliation at stake as Australia votes on the Voice

SYDNEY – Phone lines at 13Yarn, a national Indigenous helpline in Australia, are ringing off the hook.

National Programme Manager Marjorie Anderson’s team is receiving three times more calls each week from distressed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people, as the country prepares to vote on a landmark referendum on Saturday to recognise Indigenous people in the constitution.

“Aboriginal people aren’t feeling safe,” the manager told Reuters in an interview. “When the…