With a two-letter word, Australians struck down the first attempt at constitutional change in 24 years, a move experts say will inflict lasting damage on First Nations people and suspend any hopes of modernizing the nation’s founding document.
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.
Jeez
The text of the proposed constitutional amendment can be found here. The entire extent of its “recognition” was to create a body that can make presentations to Parliament.
No, it was to give the government of the day the power to create that body however they saw fit.
anytime the government seeks to expand it’s powers you need to ask yourself “Do I want the other guys to exercise this power?”
Labor already listens to our elders, the voice only needed to force future conservative governments to do the same and it failed miserably.
Damn wouldn’t want any “governments of the day” to receive advice on issues that affect communities that don’t get a say in what happens to them.
Why do so many of you act like this was some kind of plot to supercede power and abuse it? It was an advisory council.
It was going to be stacked with the illuminate
Edit: On second thought I really need to be sure people get it. Its sarcasm.
That wording is emotional manipulation, they are as recognised as any other Australian citizen
Edit: do you guys know the difference between “recognised” and “disadvantaged”? Because you’re arguing against a point that I didn’t make