Comment on The yes pamphlet: campaign’s voice to parliament referendum essay – annotated and factchecked
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 1 year agoThose details can’t be locked in the constitution - it’d make the constitution unnecessarily long and also force a fresh referendum every time a minor detail needs to be changed.
If the details were decided and publicised ahead of the vote, the fear campaign would focus on how those details aren’t actually in the constitutional change. Which I think would be even more effective.
I think Labor knows what they’re doing. Winning the referendum was never going to be a sure thing.
Also - if the referendum doesn’t pass I think there will be long term repetitional damage to the LNP. The younger demographic, where 85% of people are in favour of The Voice, will stop thinking of LNP as “conservative” and instead think of them as “racist”. The LNP might not recover from that brand for a full generation.
NorthofReality@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Even if it does pass the LNP have gone pretty hard to try and stop it. I’m sure that they are already the party for old racists in the eyes of many young people. Since the Millennials aren’t becoming more conservative as they age, this could end the LNP as a political force.