Australians have cast their vote in the Voice to Parliament referendum.
The proposal, to formally recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution and to create an advisory body called the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to make representations to the federal government, has been resoundingly defeated. […]
Opposition leader Peter Dutton says the result is “good for our country”.
He thanked No campaign leaders Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Nyunggai Warren Mundine.
“No one is owed more gratitude than each of these individuals,” he said.
“They have suffered through deeply personal and offensive attacks.”
Mr Dutton said the Coalition wants to see Indigenous disadvantage addressed.
“We just disagree on the Voice being the solution,” he said.
Calling for an end to “academics and activists” thinking they knew better than people on the ground in remote communities, she said that a new way of thinking was required.
“We should not maintain the racism of low expectations in this country,’’ she said. “We are all part of the fabric of this nation.”
Senator Price said she wanted to thank the Australian people for “believing in our nation.”
“The Australian people have overwhelmingly voted No. They have said No to division in our Constitution along the lines of race,” she said.
“They have said No to the gas-lighting, bullying, to the manipulation. They have said No to grievance and the push from activists to suggest that we are a racist country when we are absolutely not a racist country. […]
In an emotional speech, she described the Voice referendum as the “biggest gaslighting event our nation has ever experienced”.
“We are sick to death of being told how racist we are, how horrible we are. Our own children are being taught not to be proud to call themselves Australians in this country,’’ she said.
Senator Price has argued a Voice would “constitutionally enshrine” a victimhood mentality in the country.
“It doesn’t belong here,”
Excellent. This racist garbage of special constitutional treatment for select groups has been floating around Australia for decades. Thankfully ended. Now, if only we could get rid of the Indian Act.
Robert – Not just in Australia. Canada tried the racist Distinct Society clause decades ago and failed. The ignorant masses are not always guilable.
You’ll also have to get rid of Section 25, 35, and 35.1 of the constitution to make them “equal”
Mind blowing to see the intricacies of an Australian government a mere 170 years beyond serving as the UK’s trash disposal (penal colony) for troublesome criminals. I always have problems taking them seriously and can’t get past a perceived “Lord of the Flies” bias of the place.
Hey fair shake of the sauce bottle there, Orson.
Australia, the First Nation which was formed in 1901, was made up with a mix of ‘Free Settler States’ and ‘Convict Scum States’.
It is the Convict Scum states that still cause the problem with a bunch of very comfortably well off and successful people still claiming intergenerational grief that their great great great was a thief and a thug.
Rest of us are just dickheads 😀
😀 Believe it of not, I meant the previous as a compliment. But, reviewing my words I can see where that might not be apparent. In my defense, I’m a bit of a dickhead myself.
Is “…fair shake of the sauce bottle…” a Strine expression?
Yeap.
Bit Pre-Boomer/Boomer/Gen X
Basically implies that the speaker believes the recipient has overstepped slightly.
If you want to really show annoyance you can also call them a Drongo.
Fair dinkum, mate!
About $400 million, all the MSM, all the major sporting codes and big corporations, ‘personalities’, songs, rallies (which were terrifyingly nearly 100% white… and their dogs) just to try and say “Hey, why don’t we form a new group to discuss the things we already know about?”
(some really cool looking dogs btw)
The bitter irony was that the YES people used in their campaign the fact that regional Aborigines live in 5th world conditions and that we need the Voice to do something about it.
Well… if you already know that the communities are filled with physical and sexual violence then you don’t need a Voice to tell you this. How about instead you get off your smug inner city cafe seats and actually spend $400 million fixing the root causes?
Big question now is if the YES champion Prime Minister will fall on his sword or not. He has utterly failed to follow the will of the voters with the Voice and now, if he and any ethics, should throw himself at the mercy of a new election, or, failing that, step down as PM.
Probably won’t, but definitely should.
MC – No surprises in the fallout from the usual suspects:
“Yes23 director Dean Parkin has given a brief speech criticising the “unnecessarily divisive campaign”…
“But it is clear we were not able to reach you and cut through what has been the single largest misinformation campaign this country has ever seen”! Yes, but from which side?
Mostly the yes didn’t give information.
We were told that hope would solve the problems.
Not how a non-binding advisory committee would ensure aboriginals live 8 years longer without spending billions on Medicare and/or turning the aboriginal community into even more of a nanny state.
Oh and yes Jacinta Price came out of this very well, Jacinta Price for pm imho.
I suspect Albo and his ilk sees it as we stupid racist bigots let them down… I think from now on, Albo – denied his great place in history – will combine even more trips overseas with punishing us for failing him…
Heh.
Just imagine a Canadian referendum on abolishing our Apartheid System.
Thousands of bureaucrats would be pissing and moaning about how unfair it would be..
Because they would lose their jobs.
Their goldplated pensionable jobs ..making sure that the people in their “care” can never break free of their government imposed poverty..
Some how I suspect we will never get to vote on that.
Same as the poverty pimps in most major cities. Empty the parks, abolish the safe injection sites, move the homeless along. Works for me! Way too much government at all levels.
Canada is an apartheid country c/w race laws.
Wonder, will the Bong give us his insights on what the Aussies just did? Maybe go full Modi on ’em.
Canada excels in racism of low expectations. Because Indians commit so much violent crime we punish them lightly to even it out. As a result they commit more violent crime with 90% of their victims being Indian. Because so many Indians do poorly in school we make it easier. Indians might have high school or degrees but it means so little all they can do are government make-work jobs. We all know the cure is make them get off their asses and compete with white people but white liberals think that would be racist.
Looks like the Aussies are trying avoid creating the racial cesspool that Canada has created for itself with all the multiculti crap that was started by the father of the clown who currently holds his old gig .. you know … Mr. Clown-Socks.
Canada has continually dumbed down it’s education industry to accommodate the low IQ natives, the massive number of 3rd world invaders, white liberals, Haitians, Jamaicans, Africans, Pachuco leftovers and any other alleged victim groups who want a free ride.
In America they called it “affirmative action” they are doing away with it now that the entire country are a bunch of poorly educated jerks half of whom think Joe Biden is a good president.
I want to go back to the 50s. It was a much better time.
New Zealand was even further down that track. Might have come to a screaming stop with their election.
Around what happened in Oz (IMO and I could be wrong)
You need to know that the ALP send “learners” to US to catch up on Democrat “learnings and tactics”. In a recent US election that ALP got fined for illegal foreign contributions.
So remember back in Obamacare when Pelosi dropped the additional 1200 pages of legislation on the night before the vote was due, with the comment “To find out what’s in it you’ll have to vote for it”?
So a “guiding light ” was the FIRST Page” of the Ularu Declaration” with no mention of what was in the following 25 pages (or the back notes that made it up to 125 pages of a “What and How To Manual”).
With nothing more mentioned than a “Trust Us” on how it would work or what it could be used to do.
Fortunately that was dug out and well publicised well before voting day.
West Australia had a go on its own, with a legislation that, among other things, required anyone with more than a house block to get aboriginal approval to dig below about 2 inches – even for a post hole. That was hurridly retracted but the suspicion was that it might well arise from the ashes if “Their Voice” had got the nod.
Quite impressed with the push back from the right on this.
Equal treatment of all people is a foreign idea here in Tier 2 Canada.
And… more good news from down under, New Zealand tossed the Labour Party out
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/nz-election-results-2023-live-updates-analysis-national-act-could-govern-alone-labour-faces-crushing-defeat-winston-peters-celebrates-comeback/DWPG2YGHIFEIZAVOL73BPTPGEQ/
Soon, it will be Canada’s turn, and Biden IS NOT going to be elected again.
May have a sip of Bushmills tonight while reading through the news …
This vote is just a new damn example of the Anglo-Saxon world’s inability to reason with its “original” or aboriginal people in areas it started to inhabit after the age of exploration.
Just give them a say in how and when to protect the culture and traditions from eradication.
No “we recognise this”, no more “acknowledge that “. Just stop doing shit, after talks.
The rest of the world has done this much better.
(Indigenous Sámi from Norway, where life is sweet, I admit .We have parliament of our own now.)
I did see another commentor on a video who was friends with several Australian Aboriginals, including one tribal elder. Whenever this topic came up, all his aboriginal friends told him they were voting “no”, citing the lack of transparency in the legislation as their biggest concern.
Not a snowball’s chance in hell that this would happen in this country.
No vote on such thing would ever happen.
Never ever.
You can possibly think why.
The ruling class would probably die of anger.
Maybe not a bad idea.
Jacinta Price would make a good PM. She has been a beacon of rationality with a vision of one Australia united amongst all this nonsense. Perhaps we can move on from the preening and virtue signalling now and help those that need and want help.
Yes. She needs to take both credit AND reward for her achievements these past months.
IMO
Beware burn out. Give her time to learn more of the system before any rushed promotions
Thanks for all your comments SDA readers.
This was a gargantuan fight by middle and sensible Australia (black, white & everything in between), against the vast array of left-bubble people and institutions which tried to dictate to the rest of the plebian voters, beseeching us to vote Yes because it will “feel good” (or something).
The far Left Labor and Green Parties, sporting groups, media commentators, most of the (captured and sycophantic) press that is lost in the “progressive” miasma, labour unions, many large corporations and their dropkick CEOs and board members, “independent teal” parliamentarians (who actually think there is a climate crisis and are supported by climate multi-millionaires … ROFL), university administrators, faculty and students, plus the Aboriginal Industrial Complex … you name it, the left-bubble people and captured institutions were all over this.
Thanks to indigenous leaders Jacinta Nampijimpa Price and Nyunggai Warren Mundine, the centrist LNP coalition leadership, and millions of ordinary Australians with razor sharp BS antennae, the NO case prevailed by 60% to a meagre 40%.
This was a momentous victory for the Sensible Centre, a massive roadblock to the insane leftist juggernaut that seeks to impose its collectivist values on the rest of us.
Next move is to agitate for genuine improvement to the many thousands of under-privileged indigenous people in regional centres and remote Australia who deserve a better deal than the Aboriginal Grievance industry has dealt out over the past 100 years or so, starting with a massive audit of where the many millions of dollars in annual indigenous support disappear to without any effective results.
And shouldn’t we be demanding to know how/where the federal handouts (my tax dollars) are being spent by the indigenous people here? At least once a week their is a news story being pushed that the reserves have a crisis, that could be fixed by handing over several more millions.
Getting rid of our institutional bigotry and our nazi- like racial hierarchy governance … ?
Indian Act, Bilingualism, Multi cult…? Never ever will happen.
Canada is an institutionally racist and bigoted country by design. It is ruled over by the racists and bigots that it benefits and that will never change… unless the country was to end.
Good for Australians rejecting the bigotry and Nazi like racial hierarchy of corrupt backwards countries like
Nazi Germany and Canada.