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.

  • WhirlybirdEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If you’re at all interested, check out indigenous deaths in custody.

    There are many things to look at, but this is a bad one. Bad in terms of being misleading. You actually have a higher chance of dying in custody if you’re white than if you’re indigenous. The “indigenous deaths in custody” figure is intentionally misleading in that it counts deaths from things like car chases as being a “death in custody”. There are multiple examples on there of things like an indigenous person running from police after stabbing someone and jumping in a river to try and escape, only to drown - they count that as a “death in custody” which is ridiculous. There is one example on there that counts 3 deaths in custody where police had a report of a stolen car, they saw it driving in the opposite direction to them, so they turned their lights on and did a u-turn, and the stolen car full of indigenous teenagers put the foot down and crashed into a tree 15 seconds later, killing them all. “Death in custody” my arse.