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.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    A few of the arguments or concerns voiced by Australian’s included:

    -A Voice with no power is pointless

    -Lack of detail in the proposal

    -Separating Australian’s by race is divisive (note there’s already constitutional race powers, which I disagree with and hope will be scrapped)

    -ATSI people would have more representation than others (they actually have proportionally higher representation in Parliament today than their percentage of population)

    -Leaving the exact details of the Voice to legislation means any future government could gut it without violating the constitutional amendment

    -concerns this is the first push on a path to treaty and reparations as a percentage of GDP (which WAS discussed as a possibility by the people who worked on the Uluru statement)

    I’ve left out the outright lies, though I guarantee someone will take issue with me simply mentioning the talking points to give you context.

    • ASeriesOfPoorChoices
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      -11 year ago

      Just as long as we’re all aware that while those are all reasons put forward, they are all false / lies / misleading.