Australians vote No in referendum that promised change for First Nations people but couldn't deliver | CNN
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With a two-letter word, Australians have struck down the first attempt at constitutional change in 24 years, major media outlets reported, a move experts say will inflict lasting damage on First Nations people and suspend any hopes of modernizing the nation’s founding document.

With a two-letter word, Australians have struck down the first attempt at constitutional change in 24 years, major media outlets reported, a move experts say will inflict lasting damage on First Nations people and suspend any hopes of modernizing the nation’s founding document.

Early results from the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) suggested that most of the country’s 17.6 million registered voters had written No on their ballots, and CNN affiliates 9 News, Sky News and SBS all projected no path forward for the Yes campaign.

The proposal, to recognize Indigenous people in the constitution and create an Indigenous body to advise government on policies that affect them, needed a majority nationally and in four of six states to pass.

  • zoats@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    76·
    1 year ago

    absolute horseshit. this entire post is disingenuous. the voice was supported by the vast majority of first nations people.

    • WaxedWookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      1 year ago

      The amendment had roughly 80% support from indigenous Australians, and I'm pretty confident the majority of the remaining 20% rejected it because it didn't go far enough, and they want treaty.