Australians have resoundingly rejected a proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in its constitution and establish a body to advise parliament on Indigenous issues.

Saturday’s voice to parliament referendum failed, with the defeat clear shortly after polls closed.

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      No Mature Rated Games

      Huh? We have R18+ rated games.

      No Guns

      Thank fuck for that too. How many mass shootings have we had in the last 25 years? None. We’re good without guns thanks.

      No Rights

      No rights? What rights are you talking about? Do you even know what is being discussed?

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          I was talking about indigenous people’s rights. but you successfully deflected

          What rights do you think Indigenous people here don’t have exactly? They have all the same rights as everyone else lol. This isn’t about “indigenous rights”, never was. You very clearly do not understand what this referendum was actually about.

          Most of us No voters actually wanted MORE for indigenous people. We wanted more than just a shitty advisory panel that has no powers and can and will be ignored like the dozen other existing and previous indigenous advisory boards. You clearly don’t know anything about this issue so maybe stop trying to force your uneducated foreign views on it.

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      We just proved 60% of the country are dumbass racist hicks, we don’t need dumbass racist hicks armed with assault rifles. It’s bad enough here with the spiders and snakes.

      As for the no voting, the US could certainly take a leaf from our book. The republicunts would evaporate overnight if you had mandatory voting with ranked choice and meaningful minor parties.