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In the past fortnight, the Yes23 campaign has embarked on a blitz around Perth with nearly daily press conferences and flooding early polling booths with volunteers.
The Resolve findings suggest the only demographics intending to vote Yes in WA were young people aged 18 to 34 and Labor voters, but even those levels of support are softer than national averages.
Nationally, 62 per cent of people aged 18 to 34 support the Voice while in WA it is about 58 per cent.
Support declines rapidly the older the age group.
People aged 35 to 54 reflect WA’s average with 61 per cent opposing the Voice and that jumps to 72 per cent for people aged 55 and above.
In WA, 55 per cent of Labor voters surveyed intend to support the Voice compared to the national average of 67 per cent.
The gender divide in WA is also significant.
Only 31 per cent of males surveyed supported the Voice compared to 47 per cent of women.
Similar to national trends, Coalition voters in WA are the least likely group surveyed to support the Voice with 84 per cent of respondents intending to vote No.
The result is unsurprising given the No campaign in Western Australia has been spearheaded by federal Liberals like Michaelia Cash who piggybacked off the state Labor government’s disastrous rollout of its Aboriginal heritage laws to warn against the Voice.
The coalition also dealt the proposal a double blow when both the Nationals and state Liberal leader Libby Mettam backflipped on their support.
Cook votes Yes
The Resolve monitor results came the same day WA Premier Roger Cook lodged his Yes vote at an early voting centre in his Kwinana electorate.
He said the referendum could still be successful in his state despite the latest Resolve Political Monitor suggesting support remained at 39 per cent with a week left in the campaign.
“I noticed that there’s still a large number of voters who are undecided in relation to this and our message has been to get out onto the street onto the doorsteps and speak with people and to have the conversation that this is about unity,” he said.
He said even if the referendum was unsuccessful it would not stop the need to address Indigenous disadvantage.
“That doesn’t mean that First Nations people will not continue to want to have a voice in the way that their lives are governed, so we will continue this journey and we will continue it together,” he said.
Cook also took aim at Liberal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s calls for a senate inquiry into ASX-listed companies’ financial support for the Yes vote.
“It is up to the shareholders of these companies to guide the boards in their leadership in the way they want to see going forward,” he said.
“That is the forum in which they should be judged, not some sort of political courthouse that Senator Price wants to set up.”
Price said she had spoken to shareholders of major Australian companies throughout the campaign who were angry at the financial support provided to the Yes campaign.
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