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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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[–] gladflag@lemmy.ml 89 points 11 months ago (27 children)
[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 47 points 11 months ago (26 children)

I personally didn’t pay close attention to the campaigns, and think it pretty obvious Australia has a fair way to go on indigenous issues, but my impression is also that the Yes campaign was poorly executed and thought through, failing, in part, to recognise how much of an uphill climb it was going to be and how easy the No campaign was going to be. For instance, while reading the ballot, I was taken aback by how vague and confusing the proposal was, despite having read it before.

Otherwise, I’m hoping there’s a silver lining in the result where it will prompt an ongoing conversation about what actually happened and get the country closer to getting better at this.

[–] Lintson@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago

Even 10 years ago the topic of this referendum would have been political suicide. Remember Rudd got crucified for apologising. It's actually pretty positive that this referendum, as poorly executed as it was, actually happened.

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