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Indigenous Voice: Australians reject historic Indigenous referendum - BBC News (bbc.in)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Australian national broadcaster ABC has projected three states voted No, effectively defeating the referendum.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You've actually explained one of the reasons many Indigenous people rejected this: it is just feedback that could simply be ignored by the Senate. That's powerless, and we've seen from royal commissions into Aboriginal deaths in custody that the feedback does get ignored. Why accept such a bad deal, pretending it's a victory or progress?

The Black Peoples Union interview with ABC explains why they took the 'no' position.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I saw this stance and I still don't know why you wouldn't want a position to give you more of a platform. It's still progress to give minority groups a larger platform than they had before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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Black Peoples Union interview with ABC

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