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The crushing defeat of Australia’s divisive Voice referendum
Spectator ^ | Oct 14 | Coffee House

Posted on 10/15/2023 4:59:56 AM PDT by RandFan

Australia’s Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, urged his fellow Australians to take ‘the opportunity to make history’ today. And they did, but not in the way that Albanese had so fervently hoped. His government’s referendum, which aimed to change the country’s constitution to entrench an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander advisory voice to Australia’s parliament and executive government, was defeated by a majority of voters in all Australian states.

The final margin, 59 per cent to 41 per cent between Yes and No, was not just decisive. It was a landslide of resounding proportions, almost a mirror reversal of the polled support for the Voice as recently as April.

The biggest defeat was in the traditionally deeply conservative state of Queensland, but even in Victoria, which is dominated by an ultra-progressive state government, handed the Yes campaign a solid hiding. Looking at the result by parliamentary seats, the relatively few wins for Yes largely were in affluent urban constituencies inhabited mainly by university-educated and younger voters.

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.co.uk ...


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Victory !
1 posted on 10/15/2023 4:59:56 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Paywall!


2 posted on 10/15/2023 5:04:50 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: RandFan

The intent of the left is the same genocidal desire of white people. Once this law became entrenched, anybody living in Australia would have been subject to rule by the aboriginal population.


3 posted on 10/15/2023 5:06:53 AM PDT by Jonty30 (It never rains in sunny Alberta. It always rains in rainy Alberta.)
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To: RandFan

Crocodile Dundee movies portrayed the aborigines in a very attractive light. They were attractive, funny and mystical. Unfortunately not all Australians identify with the rugged individualism of Mick Dundee.


4 posted on 10/15/2023 5:11:05 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: RandFan

It reminds me of the Gay Marriage vote in North Carolina. It was soundly defeated so they went to the courts


5 posted on 10/15/2023 5:12:19 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: RandFan
"the relatively few wins for Yes largely were in affluent urban constituencies inhabited mainly by university-educated and younger voters

In other words group think, indoctrinated spoiled rotten POS youth.

6 posted on 10/15/2023 5:16:50 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: AppyPappy

Remember, nothing is ever settled until it is settled the way the left wants it settled, and then it is settled. Celebrate this victory today, then back to war tomorrow.


7 posted on 10/15/2023 5:18:48 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: RandFan

It’s called ‘slippery slope’ and the government there didn’t have enough brains to simply ram it through their Parliament, or do as the US and use the courts to ram it through.


8 posted on 10/15/2023 5:19:56 AM PDT by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: RandFan
Everything come down to power. At the writing of our Constitution, Indian tribes had power and were recognized. If we had such writing now, I doubt any such recognition would occur.

I doubt there will be any special recognition's for whitey when he is driven off the genetic spectrum over time, and that should be a warning, that once you lose power or another group gains it, you're sol.

9 posted on 10/15/2023 5:23:07 AM PDT by Theoria
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To: RandFan

So typical. Who supported it? The guilty rich and those so young their brain hasn’t fully developed yet.


10 posted on 10/15/2023 5:31:19 AM PDT by cuban leaf (It is easier to fool a man than to convince him he's being fooled. - Mark Twain)
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To: DAC21; chajin

This was feel good nonsense. I had no idea they were voting on it until the other day...

Glad they rejected it. A huge win.


11 posted on 10/15/2023 5:52:05 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan; naturalman1975

so people voted to reject a system that would have made them 2nd-class citizens in their own country ...

who could possibly have seen this coming?!

/s


12 posted on 10/15/2023 6:03:58 AM PDT by canuck_conservative (there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
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To: RandFan

I don’t see 59-41 as some decisive country

A country with 41% supporting this is quite gone.


13 posted on 10/15/2023 6:10:33 AM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: RandFan
Without the paywall
14 posted on 10/15/2023 6:14:40 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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Virtue signalling was rejected 60-40 by Australians, YET the Left is currently in power and when the Right happens to win power, they never have a commanding 60-40 majority in Parliament.

How can this be? Because Oz has a tortured version of Ranked Choice Voting, and the Right coalition is the equivalent of RINO squishes.

If you thought the covid lockdowns and mandates were bad here, they were nothing compared to Oz. You couldn't leave your home and go to the grocery store without proof of the jab.

Anyone close to supporting MAGA for Australia is viciously attacked by the media. Google Pauline Hanson and you will see. She was charged with election fraud and spent 11 weeks in jail before her trial. Ultimately a 3 judge panel found her not guilty. Hanson was the only one who asked tough questions of Pfizer reps when they were compelled to appear before Parliament.

15 posted on 10/15/2023 6:50:13 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: chajin

“Remember, nothing is ever settled until it is settled the way the left wants it settled, and then it is settled. Celebrate this victory today, then back to war tomorrow.”

Yep, they are relentless. Like roaches and termites they never stop. Constant fumigation is the only answer.


16 posted on 10/15/2023 6:52:04 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: RandFan

This is just another United Nations’ scheme to institute a totalitarian world government with them in charge.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/indigenous-peoples/un-declaration-rights-indigenous-peoples


17 posted on 10/15/2023 6:56:53 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Theoria

“I doubt there will be any special recognition’s for whitey when he is driven off the genetic spectrum over time”

The disgusting and sad truth is that the ones driving whites to extinction are whites themselves. Specifically, it is that portion of self loathing, guilt ridden WHITES who are leading the charge.

Whites used to kick ass, they ruled the world and created 90% of what we call civilization. Now a good portion look at those achievement in shame, and have guilted themselves into an orgy of debasement and self-genocide.


18 posted on 10/15/2023 7:09:43 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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“The guilty rich and those so young their brain hasn’t fully developed yet.”

90% of whom are whites.


19 posted on 10/15/2023 7:11:08 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: RandFan

...”to entrench an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander advisory voice to Australia’s parliament and executive government...”

Aussies well understood that that “advisory voice” was the camel’s nose under the tent. Soon that “advisory voice” would be given a LOT more power over the people of Australia - who are already worried about land reform issues such as giving back THEIR land to Aborigines.

And, there would be no going back.


20 posted on 10/15/2023 7:21:19 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (What did Socialists use before Candles?..... Electricity)
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