• Whirlybird
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    1 year ago

    This wasn’t “progress or not” though, that’s ridiculous and sore loser talk. Another toothless advisory panel that will be ignored isn’t “progress”.

    Real progress would be something like guaranteeing some new seats at the senate to go with the “voice”. Give them an actual voice that gets to decide on things that affect their community. Giving them a “voice” that can and will be ignored will change nothing for the better.

    • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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      1 year ago

      It’s not another toothless advisory panel.

      It would’ve been a constitutionally supported advisory, with demonstrated will of the Australian people. That wouldn’t be so easily ignored.

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        It literally would be another toothless advisory panel because it was not going to have any power. Being constitutionally supported just means it has to exist in some unspecified form. There was no “demonstrated will of the Australian people” in it.

        You know what does have the demonstrated will of the Australian people? That the proposed voice was a bad idea. That shouldn’t be ignored.