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

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

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (80 children)

Man, I didn't know Australia was full of idiots. There was absolutely no reason to vote no to this. It was simply a group that would give feedback to the Australian Senate. Feedback from a marginalized group of the land you stole. Feedback that could simply be ignored by the Senate. It was simply giving that group a voice. How you could vote against that, I have no clue.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Australia has some of the most racist people on the planet.

The problem is, since they live in a self-contained 'white-zone', they rarely have to deal with the problems of racial diversity.

So many people think Americans are racist, but that's just because the USA actually has to deal with diversity.

It's easy for nations like Australia or Iceland to appear as they though care about other races until it comes home.

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