why not test it in the High Court.
Paul1405,
More ignorance involvement is not a solution !

Indy,

As an alien in Australia, you don't have voting rights. BTW, back in the un-named Old County, in between throwing bombs at each other, did you ever vote on anything? Me thinks not. When are you going to name your Old Country, it must be a real shocker, that's why you keep it hidden!

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The objective of this referendum is to allow our indigenous peoples to have a greater say in the management of their lives with all due respect for the laws and responsibilities of Australian citizenship.

I see no reason why that should be refused to them. Like every other Australian, it seems only justice that they too should have “a fair go”.

Our indigenous peoples were the innocent victims of British colonisation, and we are its beneficiaries – “cui bono”, as Lucius Cassius, reputed to be a wise and honest ancient Roman judge, used to say : "To whom might it be for a benefit ?".

They paid a heavy toll :

• 70% of the Aboriginal population was wiped out by a smallpox epidemic that broke out in the Sydney area in 1789, 15 months after the First Fleet arrived.

• They were chased off their land and parked in Aboriginal reserves, missions, and stations.

• Many were massacred, flogged, raped, and enslaved.

• Children were forcibly removed from their families and fostered out under government assimilation policies.

We are all aware of that, even if we ignore all the gory details. It doesn’t seem to worry us too much. We don’t lose any sleep over it.

According to the latest Real Concerns Index (2022), the three main concerns of Australians were :

1. The rising cost of living – 75.8

2. Cost of energy, food, and fuel – 74.5

3. International relations and global instability – 71.8

According to the latest poll, published by the Sydney Morning Herald :

“The NO vote for the Voice is ahead 56-44 per cent nationally, now leading in every state and territory”.

Perhaps there is a general sentiment of injustice in the favours accorded indigenous people to which all Australians do not have access – a feeling that enough is enough.

It could also reflect the findings of the 2020 study by an ANU researcher that 75% of Australians hold an implicit bias against indigenous peoples, many of whom live in untenable, sordid conditions on the margins of society.

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75% of Australians hold an implicit bias against indigenous peoples, many of whom live in untenable, sordid conditions on the margins of society.
Banjo Paterson,
Did this ANU researcher give any explanation as to what the reasons are ? It'd be very interesting to read for those non-indigenous who have lived in such communities !

Indyvidual

Whatever you say, you will be insulted and called names by the 3 lunatic Left posters; and some of the just plain wets.

It's not worth it mate. Ignore the buggers. They get only one vote the same as we do, and there are a lot of people like us who have never heard of these rabbits and their rants.

Al-Jazeera again, today reporting that "Corporate Australia fails to sway public as Indigenous Voice faces defeat".

One would certainly hope that sensible, Australian patriots would not be swayed by corporations in cahoots with the Socialist - teetering on Communist - government.

The views of big business in Australia are increasingly an echo of the government of the day.

. 9 out of 10 if the largest public companies are in sectors tightly regulated and heavily policed by the government.

. In Australia, once a business reaches a certain size, success is as much a product of political preferment as it is of expertise or innovation.

. As the reach of government grows chief executives have no alternative but to spend their time dealing not with the people who buy their goods and services but with politicians.

Big Business is probably arrogantly confident that it will have the influence it believes it had on the SSM vote.

We need to remember that corporatism plus government equals Fascism.