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Australians have resoundingly rejected a proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in its constitution and establish a body to advise parliament on Indigenous issues.

Saturday’s voice to parliament referendum failed, with the defeat clear shortly after polls closed.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah as soon as I heard the "if you don't know vote no" slogan I knew it was already over.. this one line just forgives people for being racist.

I'm not saying every No vote was racist just that many would have been and this made it so fucking easy for them to feel no guilt.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yea that’s kinda what I meant. The No campaign here was pretty easy to cook up I think. And for the Liberal party it was a very attractive chance to kick the Labor govt down no matter the cause.

Which means, IMO, if you were going to do this, you had to be ready for all of that and not rely on calls to be “be on the right side of history”. Australia isn’t there and needs convincing, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The mining lobby seems to be behind it too - they stand to lose a lot if Aboriginal rights are given more credence.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Clive Palmer dropped (at least) $2 mill on the No campaign. That says a lot about what it's worth.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Not to mention that the bar for a referendum to pass is very high. For the non-Australians, you need not only a majority of voters nationally to vote yes, but also a majority of states to vote yes (the so-called "double majority"). Only 8 of the last 44 referendums before now have passed and partisan referendums have never passed, so this one was doomed the minute Dutton decided to play politics with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I wish somebody had said that about Brexit.