Voice results fallout: ABC’s Patricia Karvelas slaps down trolls who targeted her after she appeared at a No campaign event while covering the Voice referendum

A high-profile ABC reporter has hit out at trolls who viciously attacked her for broadcasting live from a No campaign event.

Left-wing viewers targeted Ms Karvelas after the national broadcaster showed Ms Karvelas interviewing Warren Mundine, one of the leading No campaigners, as votes were counted for the ‘Voice for Parliament’ referendum on Saturday.

The reporter defended her coverage of the event on X, formerly Twitter, and said she was not endorsing any side of the debate, but simply covering all angles of the night.

“Just a brief explanation of the reporting. I am REPORTING from the event No. This is not her approval”, she wrote.

Journalists cover everything properly.

Patricia Karvelas took to X to respond to critics who slammed her for covering a No campaign event on the night of the Voice for Parliament referendum

Ms Karvelas had interviewed Order of Australia medalist and prominent No campaigner Warren Mundine as the votes were counted

Some ABC viewers objected after seeing Ms Karvelas spending time at the conservative event and chastised her for it.

“It’s a little late to start reporting on the No campaign. If the journalists had exposed their wild lies as they did, it would have been a different outcome,” one viewer wrote on social media.

“Well, what about calling out the disinformation and publishing fact-checks of the No vote,” wrote a second.

“I’d question why your bosses threw you under the bus if it were me,” added a third.

Ms Karvelas responded to critics moments before interviewing Mr Mundine, who has been showing No campaign material alongside Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.

She asked Mr Mundine why the campaign was unable to recruit more volunteers and whether it had mismanaged its presence on polling day.

“The problem we have is that we don’t have as many volunteers as the Yes campaign,” Mr Mundine said.

“But my feeling is that people have already made up their minds.”

In 90 minutes after polls closed in all states and territories except Western Australia, the ABC has called New South Wales, Tasmania and South Australia after vote no. Queensland was called No half an hour later.

Mr Mundine had appeared alongside fellow No campaigner Jacinta Nampijinpa Price in widely circulated campaign materials.