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'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow silence after referendum to recognise First Peoples in the constitution was decisively rejected (www.reuters.com)
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More than 60% of Australians voted "No" in the landmark referendum on Saturday that asked whether to alter the constitution to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people with an Indigenous advisory body, the "Voice to Parliament", that would have advised parliament on matters concerning the community.

"This is a bitter irony," the Indigenous leaders said in a statement. "That people who have only been on this continent for 235 years would refuse to recognise those whose home this land has been for 60,000 and more years is beyond reason."

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

why did they vote no?

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

They're racist? I mean it's not a mystery.