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

submitted 11 months ago by EdenRester@kbin.social to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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

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[-] MJBrune@beehaw.org 36 points 11 months ago

Man, I didn't know Australia was full of idiots. There was absolutely no reason to vote no to this. It was simply a group that would give feedback to the Australian Senate. Feedback from a marginalized group of the land you stole. Feedback that could simply be ignored by the Senate. It was simply giving that group a voice. How you could vote against that, I have no clue.

[-] JustSomePerson@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

There was absolutely no reason to vote no to this.

Of course there was. Enshrining different rights to different people in the constitution based on their race, is fundamentally objectionable.

[-] Anchorite@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Hard to say that the right to be heard is objectionable imo

[-] JustSomePerson@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago

Everybody should have the same right to be heard. Different people having different rights to be heard, based on their race, is absolutely objectionable. And racist.