Voice to parliament referendum fails in defeat that Indigenous advocates will see as a blow to progress towards reconciliation

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.

  • Whirlybird@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Did I call anyone a racist or a nazi?

    You might not have, but many people in this very topic are throwing around the word racist like there’s no tomorrow.

    but it would have forced future governments to do something rather than nothing to push the next 100 years in the right direction

    I disagree. I think it would have empowered all the virtue signallers to sit on their hands smugly for the next hundred years and go “but we gave you a voice already, what more do you want!?”