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Scratch the surface of the Voice results, and a more complicated picture emerges — ABC News (apple.news)
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Some interesting data analysis here. I’ll pose the same question as the author:

…by majority vote, Australians have made clear that a constitutionally enshrined Voice to Parliament is not how they want to respond to these crises.
An urgent question emerges — what is?

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

and a more complicated picture emerges

Racism and bigotry aren't complicated.

[–] billytheid@aussie.zone -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

everyone acting like it's some great mystery... simple truth is that Australians are profoundly entitled, racist, arseholes. anyone who has lived in any other culture and then returned will agree.

[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't necessarily phrase it like that. There's a danger of oversimplifying the problem into just good (non-racist) and bad (racist) people and that doesn't help at all. The problems are systemic and go right to the very core of our nation. Non-Indigenous Australians will continue to make irrational, selfish decisions with regards to Indigenous Australians for as long as they don't understand why Indigenous culture is important (not just in Australia, but throughout the world) or the truth of their nation's history. Australia is culturally uneducated and unaware compared to the rest of the world and that has to change for any further progress to be made with regards to recognising Indigenous sovereignty in some form.

[–] billytheid@aussie.zone -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

no, I'm talking about Australians and their culture. Australians acts like their state is a vital and respected world player, in reality it's just cemented its place as an arrogant and largely irrelevant post-colonial meme that will be completely subsumed by a more powerful Asian neighbour in the near future. The sad hilarity is that all we're trying to save back home is petty white hubris.