Australia rejects proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in constitution

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Australians have resoundingly rejected a proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in the country’s 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.

 

To succeed, the yes campaign – advocating for the voice – needed to secure a double majority, meaning it needed both a majority of the national vote, as well as majorities in four of Australia’s six states.

The defeat will be seen by Indigenous advocates as a blow to what has been a hard fought struggle to progress reconciliation and recognition in modern Australia, with First Nations people continuing to suffer discrimination, poorer health and economic outcomes.

 

More than 17 million Australians were enrolled for the compulsory vote, with many expats visiting embassies around the world in the weeks leading up to Saturday’s poll.

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, called for Australians to show “kindness” to each other after the referendum.

“This moment of disagreement does not define us. And it will not divide us,” he said.

“We are not yes voters or no voters. We are all Australians. And it is as Australians together, that we must take our country beyond this debate without forgetting why we had it in the first place.”

The vote occurred 235 years on from British settlement, 61 years after Aboriginal Australians were granted the right to vote, and 15 years since a landmark prime ministerial apology for harm caused by decades of government policies including the forced removal of children from Indigenous families.

 

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[Nick Carter icp]

Australia needs to end its occupation of Aboriginal lands  and give Aborigines statehood .

  The British need do go back to the U.K , Aborigines have been there for thousands of years .

[terryq]

5 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Australia needs to end its occupation of Aboriginal lands  and give Aborigines statehood .

  The British need do go back to the U.K , Aborigines have been there for thousands of years .

They will do on the same day that the US  and NZ return all of their stolen lands to the original owner / occupiers.

 

 

[Nick Carter icp]

4 minutes ago, terryq said:

They will do on the same day that the US  and NZ return all of their stolen lands to the original owner / occupiers.

 

 

We all need to go back to Africa , its where we all came from 

[thaibeachlovers]

5 minutes ago, terryq said:

They will do on the same day that the US  and NZ return all of their stolen lands to the original owner / occupiers.

 

 

They will do on the same day that the US  and israel return all of their stolen lands to the original owner / occupiers.

[thaibeachlovers]

No surprises there. Any attempt to give special privileges to a minority will likely fail. Australians have probably been looking at what is happening in another country they know well.

[JonnyF]

It would appear the Australian people are not going down the ridiculous route of identity politics, reparations, woke idiocy etc.

 

Well done Aussies. A great day for Democracy.

[Doctor Tom]

This shows Australia in a very poor light. It can only be construed as a racist vote with a racist outcome.  They need to hang their collective heads in embarrassment,  

[JonnyF]

5 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

We all need to go back to Africa , its where we all came from 

I’m sure the Africans would love a load of white entitled woke idiots turning up, clutching their pearls and claiming to be natives. 

[JonnyF]

1 minute ago, Doctor Tom said:

This shows Australia in a very poor light. It can only be construed as a racist vote with a racist outcome.  They need to hang their collective heads in embarrassment,  

It was a rejection of racism. This body would have allowed aboriginals only. No whites no Asians. The definition of racism.

 

Now it’s one vote one person. Irrespective of race. The way it should be. 
 

Well done Aussies. Good on ya!

[Ralf001]

6 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

No surprises there. Any attempt to give special privileges to a minority will likely fail. Australians have probably been looking at what is happening in another country they know well.

Australians give the Abbo's many privileges.... and truck loads of cash.

[VocalNeal]

25 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Australia needs to end its occupation of Aboriginal lands  and give Aborigines statehood .

Nah Mate. Too fecking hot????

[giddyup]

28 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Australia needs to end its occupation of Aboriginal lands  and give Aborigines statehood .

  The British need do go back to the U.K , Aborigines have been there for thousands of years .

Does that include white South Africans, the Spanish in South America, and of course the white Americans? Should they all go home as well?

Edited October 15, 2023 by giddyup

[bignok]

13 minutes ago, Doctor Tom said:

This shows Australia in a very poor light. It can only be construed as a racist vote with a racist outcome.  They need to hang their collective heads in embarrassment,  

Idiotic comments. 12 aboriginees in parliament which is higher than their 2% of the population quota.

 

Thailand doesn't give 12 tribes a vote. No country does.

 

Wake up.

[bignok]

10 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

It was a rejection of racism. This body would have allowed aboriginals only. No whites no Asians. The definition of racism.

 

Now it’s one vote one person. Irrespective of race. The way it should be. 
 

Well done Aussies. Good on ya!

Plus many are half white but play the black card for freebies.

[JonnyF]

32 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

The British need do go back to the U.K , Aborigines have been there for thousands of years .

So presumably all blacks and Asians should leave Europe and go back to Africa and Asia? After all, whites have been there thousands of years. 

 

Or are you proposing a one sided racial repatriation ?

[JonnyF]

2 minutes ago, bignok said:

Plus many are half white but play the black card for freebies.

Sounds like Meghan Markle. 

[bignok]

Aborginals came to Australia from Indonesia 50,000 years ago. Maybe they should go back there!

[bignok]

Albo should resign. Billion dollars wasted on a vote that was always going to be no. He's hopeless. Another Rudd. A younger Biden.

[JonnyF]

2 minutes ago, bignok said:

Albo should resign. Billion dollars wasted on a vote that was always going to be no. He's hopeless. Another Rudd. A younger Biden.

It was a vanity project to display his Woke credentials. He should go the same way as Ardern, and Sturgeon (ideally without the luxury motorhome).

[TimeMachine]

53 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Australia needs to end its occupation of Aboriginal lands  and give Aborigines statehood .

  The British need do go back to the U.K , Aborigines have been there for thousands of years .

What are you saying? Have UK ever been to take over any countries? Why I'm shocked. 

 

[Nick Carter icp]

8 minutes ago, TimeMachine said:

What are you saying? Have UK ever been to take over any countries? Why I'm shocked. 

 

The U.K did go to a few Countries and help them along with their development , like how to use trees to make houses and things , how to use knifes and forks and things like that

[KannikaP]

17 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

The U.K did go to a few Countries and help them along with their development , like how to use trees to make houses and things , how to use knifes and forks and things like that

I think people in those Few countries were building houses out of wood way before UK, or was it just England, went there to teach them. And as for knives ( with a V) & forks...........didn't do very well in Hong Kong did they.

[proton]

1 hour ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Australia needs to end its occupation of Aboriginal lands  and give Aborigines statehood .

  The British need do go back to the U.K , Aborigines have been there for thousands of years .

Yeah at least 40k years and if the Brits had not turned up they would still be living like cavemen. All that time and they only got as far as stick chucking, walkabout and childish daubs, not even the wheel! They already get preferential treatment and handouts, which is why thousands with no native ancestry pretend to have it. They are lucky we turned up.

[Nick Carter icp]

9 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

I think people in those Few countries were building houses out of wood way before UK, or was it just England, went there to teach them. And as for knives ( with a V) & forks...........didn't do very well in Hong Kong did they.

It was the United Kingdom , its wasn't just England .

The U.K beat China in a war and kept Hong Kong as a souvenir, that's quite good going 

 

[KannikaP]

3 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

It was the United Kingdom , its wasn't just England .

The U.K beat China in a war and kept Hong Kong as a souvenir, that's quite good going 

 

So are you saying that there was no 'conquering' of other countries before 1801? And I thought they used chopsticks in Hong Kong.

 

The Acts of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland, which had been gradually brought under English control between 1541 and 1691, to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801. 

[Nick Carter icp]

7 minutes ago, proton said:

Yeah at least 40k years and if the Brits had not turned up they would still be living like cavemen. All that time and they only got as far as stick chucking, walkabout and childish daubs, not even the wheel! They already get preferential treatment and handouts, which is why thousands with no native ancestry pretend to have it. They are lucky we turned up.

Its now time to end this apartheid and a two state solution is required . 

   Aborigines should have half of Australia as their own Country with Sydney as its Capital , could call their new Country *Abestine* ?

[4MyEgo]

1 hour ago, Doctor Tom said:

This shows Australia in a very poor light. It can only be construed as a racist vote with a racist outcome.  They need to hang their collective heads in embarrassment,  

Even as a multicultural society, they are very racist.

 

I feel for the original land owners, of any country for that matter, however, when the damage has been done, there is no reversing the greed.

 

Glad I left that $hithole a long times ago and am content at looking at one race here, it's not perfect, but more perfect here than putting up with the rest of those racists that I left behind.

 

The funny thing that people don't realise is, when it comes to land, as expensive as it is in Australia, it belongs to the Crown, meaning they can acquire it at anytime under "The Just Terms Act" and to add to that, no ones going to take it with them.

 

YES the Indigenous Aborigines were hard done by when Cook arrived and the Brits took their lands from them, with wars comes misery, the Indigenous Aborigines aren't the only ones in the world grieving, it could always be worse, just have a look at the Palestinians at the moment and what main stream media is feeding the gullible.

 

 

  

 

Edited October 15, 2023 by 4MyEgo

[proton]

18 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Its now time to end this apartheid and a two state solution is required . 

   Aborigines should have half of Australia as their own Country with Sydney as its Capital , could call their new Country *Abestine* ?

Or stick them all on Tasmania with pensions and let them drink themselves to death ????

[Fat is a type of crazy]

I don't think most Australians are racist.  I think this vote was too vague about what actually was going to happen.