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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    9 months ago

    Mainly because of this

    The exact details of the advisory body were up to legislation which we will probably never see.

    We wanted to see them, they just wouldn’t show us. “Trust us bro, we’re the government”. Unsurprisingly it didn’t go down well.

    We were essentially being asked to change our consitution to add some vague advisory body of unspecified makeup and details but that has no powers, so why exactly would we vote for that?