The defeat of the proposal will seriously disappoint the majority of the Indigenous community who backed the poll, and, fairly or not, send a message out that relics of bigotry still hold sway in parts of the country
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney attend a media conference at Parliament House in Canberra on Saturday. Australians have roundly rejected greater rights for Indigenous citizens, scuppering plans to amend the country's 122-year-old constitution. The “Voice” was never going to transform the lives of Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples.
The defeat of the proposal will, however, seriously disappoint the majority of the Indigenous community who backed the poll, and, fairly or not, send a message out that relics of bigotry still hold sway in parts of the country.
The yes-no mechanism of a referendum vote effectively grouped together some of the strongest advocates of the rights of the Indigenous Peoples, who argued it was not enough, with those opposing the Voice and some moderates with doubts about constitutional tinkering. And those who simply wanted to give Labour Prime Minister Anthony Albanese a bloody nose.
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The historic wrongs remain largely unaddressed: the theft of land and forced removal of children; the poverty and lower life expectancy; the hopelessness of the young; the health and educational apartheid; the destruction of language and culture of a civilisation with more than 250 distinct nations. And Australia’s international reputation, too, has taken a blow.
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