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The Voice: Australians vote No in historic referendum (www.bbc.com)

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The country has overwhelmingly voted No to a proposal aimed at elevating First Nations voices.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah my family and i are all indigenous, we just spent the weekend at an traditional funeral that went for 5 days.

Every person there wanted to voice to go through.

But there was this rhetoric that indigenous people didn't want it.

I dont know a single one who was anti the voice, only numerous white people who kept saying that all us indigenous people didnt want it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think anyone legitimately thought that indigenous people didn't want it to pass... It was just a valid sounding excuse to justify the racism of people who planned to vote "no".