In Australia's Parliament this afternoon (16th Oct) there was a debate around The Water Trigger. The Bill needs to pass bc it is urgently needed to ensure that gas fracking projects don't harm local water resources and the local environment.
In NT two projects are in the final stages of authorisation. Both will poison water in the local #indigenous communities.
Precisely.
Go without water ?
In Australia 2023 ???
Saturday's referendum NO-voters need to realise that the referendum wasnt about division, bc Australia has division and inequality ALREADY .
How about some fracking in Dutton's seat?? God forbid !!!! His supporters would demand a #Voice and rightly so.
How many Australians really KNOW anything about First Nations' hardships or how the machinery of White Australia racism really works?
Truth is, like all other #FirstNations globally, they are in the way of the colonising overlords who want to seize land and resources for their own use.
And historically those overlords just needed to "wipe out" those indigenous ppls by any means possible: massacres, displacement, theft, siege, exploitation, disease, death, imprisonment...
The way Australia's First Nations are being treated nowadays is nothing new. They are unheard and invisible and 60% of voters are just fine with that.
I think this is the very last thing I'll share about the Voice referendum - but it's an interesting one.
This statistical analysis shows the results were very similar to the 1999 republic referendum: re regions, wealth, education, etc. Even the same electorates at the top & bottom of the Yes votes! Shows how hard it is to shift some people to a Yes vote, no matter what the question.
I suspect there are are two basic starting problems with any constitutional referendum:
a) Whatever the referendum is about, it can be characterised as "ignoring real issues";
b) There's a big chunk of people who deeply resent having to engage with politics, so forcing them to the polls outside an election will inevitably irritate them.
And that's before you even get to arguing the question! [sigh]
It's all there: Language Arts Civics Technology History.. TEN PAGES of curriculum. Every blue interactive link takes you to teaching materials, organisations and suggestions.
Not mandated in private schools of course.
And frankly a disaster in the hands of a NO voting Principal or teacher who won't ensure its taught.
It is now up to the progressive No campaigners, and their racist peers, to explain what they are going to do to close the gap and enable Indigenous Australians to participate in Australian society without entrenched disadvantage.
I'm proud of my #VoteYes . You should be too. Let's look at the bright side: large cities overwhelmingly voted yes. I think younger people probably did too. Any change requires time and quite often multiple attempts. Let's not forget the role of the misinformation campaign. Most people who voted no had been misled. It's truly the post truth era. Let's figure out a solution for that. #voicetoparliament#auspol#voice
@aby You can call it socialism or left leaning but what this referendum shows is both the overwhelming meanness of 2/3 Australians and/or the gullibility that they believed the dross swilling around social media.
An educated, empathetic and open minded population wouldn't have voted this way.
On excruciatingly disappointing nights like these, I think it important to remember that Australia has the most consolidated media market in the western world.
To be clear, this means that misinformation and deliberate lies can be more easily spread and embedded and with greater affect here than almost anywhere else.
Decades of Govts on both sides have privately railed against it but publicly remained both silent and unmoved to do anything about it.
While I did #VoteYes, and my electorate and neighbouring ones did (there's obviously a reasons we moved to inner-suburban Melbourne), it was pretty obvious how the country as a whole would go.
The deficiencies of the Yes campaign were obvious from the start. Calling it the "Voice" was too abstract, lefty and wanky for the average Australian to get behind. If they'd just named it simply as a "Committee for Indigenous affairs" it would have had a better chance. Calling people racist if they didn't get it was just stupid. Telling people to "Google it" was obviously insulting. The whole thing was a free kick to the Duttons and Hansons of Australia.
Albanese and his buddies should realise that they didn't win the election because they were any good at campaigning - they won it because an empty chair could have stood against Morrison and won. Too often, Labor get lucky after we get sick of the Libs and think they're God's gift. Tonight should set them straight.
Anyone else see the irony that the NT vote won’t count in the state results in the Voice referendum. It is literally the perfect fucking metaphor for this pathetic bloody populace #auspol#voteyes
“Regardless of what the referendum result is, Pearson's prediction of how the campaign leading up to it might run has proved painfully accurate.
“The abuse and even death threats faced by Indigenous people on both sides of the debate are shocking.
“As my colleague, ABC Indigenous Affairs Editor Bridget Brennan, wrote this week: "Indigenous people deserved so much better than the debate we were subjected to this year: the misinformation, death threats, conspiracy theories, the racist nonsense and everything in between. The worst of Australia has been on display."
Apropos of nothing, in 1902, Australia held a referendum on giving the vote to women. As always, the conservatives had their arguments for rejecting change laid out: #VoteYes
If you don't know, look at the company you'll be keeping. Even if you yourself are not one of them.
#No23#VoteNo has all the racists, cookers, white nationalists, and conspiracy theorists. They outright lied time and time again. They quoted (and selectively misquoted) people repeatedly without that persons authorisation for their statement to be used by their campaign.
#Yes23#VoteYes has 80% of the Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people.
I'll be voting YES! Because I want to live in a country that recognises 65,000 years of Indigenous culture in our constitution. Listening through a Voice means we'll work together to create a better future. #yes23#VoteYes
good morning tooterinions :ablobwave: :ablobcatcoffee: :annoyingdog: I'm guiding a walk along the coast today so when I'm back I hope you've all voted for the right thing!! :akko_fistup: :blobcat_hearthug: :Koala: #VoteYes
@fkamiah17 thank you and yes my postal democracy sausage rhymed in deed with grandness :akko_fistup: :BigBlobhajHug: :ma_boomerang: #voteYes@ExtraPenguin@dgar
My final thought on this.
Please vote after getting informed, and with empathy.
Don't wake up 😱 the day after voting 🗳️ on the Voice to Parliament 🗣️ to find you've helped put a stop to Indigenous reconciliation 🫱🏽🫲🏻 for a generation because someone fooled you 😈 into thinking a non-binding advisory panel is risky. 🤨