Voice Referendum: Watch the moment former PM Tony Abbott is brutally attacked by a Yes supporter after casting his No vote

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been attacked outside an early voting booth after casting his ‘No’ vote in the Indigenous Voice for Parliament referendum.

Mr Abbott was chased by a Yes supporter and repeatedly told he was ‘on the wrong side of history’ as he left an early voting center in Penrith in Sydney’s west.

“Always on the wrong side of history, Tony,” the thief told him when Mr.

The former prime minister has been vocal in his opposition to the Voice, saying it would deepen a sense of victimization that is entrenched in Australia.

The petitioner berated Mr Abbott as he left the polling station, telling the former prime minister he was “always on the wrong side of history”.

Mr Abbott has been vocal in his opposition to the Voice, saying it would only deepen Australia’s sense of victimhood.

What started as a casual discussion about his glasses quickly moved to Mr. Abbott dashed off the stage after a Yes supporter began chastising him.

“I suppose I didn’t need the glasses to write NO, but I did,” Mr Abbott told one person before the thief appeared.

“Always on the wrong side of history, mate,” shouted the man to Mr. Abbott.

Mr Abbott has been a key supporter of the No campaign, along with current opposition leader Peter Dutton and his former prime minister John Howard.

The former prime minister, who established an Indigenous Advisory Council with prominent indigenous representatives while in office, had given speeches across the country, sometimes evoking the words of civil rights leaders, to campaign against the Voice.

At an Institute of Public Affairs event in Perth on August 9, he outlined the reasons he would vote ‘No’.

“Quoting … the wonderful words of Bob Hawke on Australia Day in 1988, “We are a country without descent hierarchies. We are a country without the privilege of origin,” Mr Abbott said.

Quoting the immortal words of Martin Luther King from an earlier generation, “I want to live in a place where my four children are judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

“My absolute wish is that we can move forward as an equal people and that is why I will be voting ‘No’.

Mr Abbott said if the Yes to Vote campaign was successful, it would ‘root victimization in our constitution forever’.

In 2013, while he was still in office, however, Mr Abbott appeared at the annual Garma Festival to discuss Indigenous recognition.

“I want to say that as far as I’m concerned, one of the most important things any new government can achieve is the final recognition of Indigenous people in the Australian constitution,” he told the crowd at the time.

“Indigenous recognition would not be the amendment of our constitution, but the completion of our constitution.”

Mr Abbott also endorsed the Recognize campaign in 2015, which sought to recognize Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the preamble to the Australian constitution.

As Mr. Abbott and Mr. Howard has said that Australia was ‘lucky’ to have been colonized and that the British solution was good for the country.

Building on the momentum, the Uluru from the Heart Declaration was created in 2017, which served as a starting point for the referendum talks.

However, in 2013, the then prime minister said the constitution would only be ‘finished’ when indigenous recognition was included in the document while speaking at the Garma Festival (pictured)

Australians have started voting in the referendum, with next Saturday, October 14, the last day to vote Yes or No on both recognized First Nations peoples in the constitution and to create an Indigenous advisory body in the Australian parliament .

This will be the first referendum Australia has had since 1999.

The latest Newspoll suggested a Yes vote would fail 36 to 56 per cent.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese cast his vote early in the historic Vote for Parliament referendum from his Marrickville constituency.

“Yes for recognition, yes for hearing, yes for better results”, writes Albanese in a post on social networks, accompanied by a photo of him casting his vote in the ballot box together with his son Nathan.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese cast his vote early in the historic Vote for Parliament referendum from his Marrickville constituency.