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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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Cautious of giving the government more power. Government.
The voice as it was would have been ripe for abuse by the government. They could just put any of their cronies in the voice advisory role and just have it go “yeah the indigenous people agree that you should make more mines where our heritage sites are”.
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It would though, because it would now give the government the ability to say that they listened to and consulted with the indigenous advisory board, made up of white mining magnates and pauline hanson, and then went ahead and leased out the indigenous cultural land for mining for 100 years. See? The government can no go ahead and do things that harm indigenous culture and people while being able to have the full backing of the indigenous voice to parliament.
You not understanding the ways that this position was ripe for abuse by the government isn’t suprising, nor is your trying to pass it of as me changing my tune.
I didn’t say the Voice has any power. It doesn’t. What I’m saying is that the voice existing gives the GOVERNMENT more power.
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No, they didn’t have an indigenous voice behind their decisions before. Now they would have.
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You’re getting mixed up. Seems to be a common thing with you. It’s almost like it’s intentional so you can try and call other people disingenuous etc.
The voice has no power for the indigenous people it’s supposed to represent.
The voice gives the government more power to do things that negatively affect indigenous people.
This isn’t rocket science. Do you understand yet?