Comment on Referendum Results, Congratulations, Comiserations
Whirlybird@aussie.zone 8 months agoThat’s reason to vote against it because it’s pointless. It achieves nothing positive, and likely leads to decades more of inaction because “but we put you guys in the constitution and gave you a voice, what more can we do?!”.
I’m not voting to change our constitution for something this pathetic. It’s not a shopping list.
Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
If you’re not willing to vote for the bare minimum you’re not going to vote for anything. The status quo got us into this mess and you’re expecting it to get us out, pathetic.
Whirlybird@aussie.zone 8 months ago
100% incorrect.
I would have voted yes if we were guaranteeing something to indigenous people that would actually be guaranteed to help, like 10 senate seats or something. A new indigenous government agency that gives indigenous people money and say over all indigenous things.
You know what would also really help? Details about the thing I’m voting on, not a vague “just leave the details to us, the government, who have shown we’re not to be trusted over and over again”.
Voting for the voice as it was was essentially maintaining the status quo while being able to pat ourselves on the back and tell ourselves we saved the indigenous people.
GombeenSysadmin@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Could it not have been a start? Now it looks like you’ve all said no to the bare minimum, so there’s no point in continuing with anything at all. And have you seen the reaction from the indigenous community? That doesn’t seem like they felt it was useless. They’ve just been ignored again.
I’m on the outside looking in, btw. From Ireland it looks like you’ve all been played by the No campaign.
Whirlybird@aussie.zone 8 months ago
No, that couldn’t have been the start because it likely would have been the end too. What was proposed wasn’t the bare minimum, it was a complete embarrassment. It was a giant “trust us guys, we’re the government and we’ll definitely do the right thing”.
No one got played. Maybe, just maybe, the majority of people saw this ridiculous waste of time and money as just that. A virtue signalling waste of time and money so the rich inner city lefties can feel good about themselves for ending racism by doing the absolutely smallest thing possible.
Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
All the details were on the sheet you wrote No on. Looking forward to all the helpful progressive policies getting passed now that you’ve voted no, what a champ.
Whirlybird@aussie.zone 8 months ago
All the details? Really? How many people would this government put on the board? How would they be selected?
Point me to those details please.