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Indigenous Voice: Australians reject historic Indigenous referendum - BBC News (bbc.in)

submitted 1 year ago by EdenRester@kbin.social to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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Australian national broadcaster ABC has projected three states voted No, effectively defeating the referendum.

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[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its the eternal false dichotomy of "one side of a dispute must be the good guys, meaning the other side are therefore the bad guys."

[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Last time I looked at the count 40% of indigenous people voted against the voice, there's definitely no good/bad side in this regardless how some might choose to vilify others. We have compulsory voting as well.