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Australian protesters fight Indigenous rights reform

SYDNEY: Hundreds of protesters rallied in Sydney on Saturday against a plan to amend Australia's constitution to enshrine Indigenous rights, ahead of a referendum next month.

The crowd gathered in the city's Hyde Park railed against the proposal, which, if it passes on October 14, would give Indigenous peoples the right to be consulted on policies that affect them, a measure dubbed the Voice.