The 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum will be held on October 14, 2023. The referendum will ask voters to approve an alteration to the Australian Constitution to recognize the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. If the referendum is successful, parliament will then design the voice via legislation. The Albanese government has proposed to enshrine in the constitution an Indigenous voice to parliament, which would be voted on in a referendum. The proposed voice would be an advisory body to give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people input on policies that affect them. The referendum requires a majority of votes in a majority of states to succeed. The government launched its official advertising campaign about the referendum in May 2022, to provide information about what the proposal is, what the Voice would do and how it would be set up, and to encourage Australians to prepare themselves for it. The AEC (which is an independent statutory authority) launched its major education phase in August 2023, aimed at helping and educating voters to prepare for the referendum.