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Tens of thousands of Australians hit the streets in support of the October 14 referendum (www.abc.net.au)

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While polling for Brisbane has suggested the majority will vote No, one supporter of the Yes campaign, Nathan Appo said the large crowd was an indication of strong support.

Gotta say, I think it's going to be a fairly conclusive "NO" result unfortunately.

It's not really something that gets brought up in conversation all that often, but when it does I'm still kinda surprised at how many people plan on voting no. It's always the same arguments too... typical "no" talking points that have been parroted all over the major news channels and what not.

Bit disheartening to be honest, but I've kind of accepted we live in a pretty backwards part of Australia (let alone the world) in so many ways.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There are countless programmes and departments and taskforces that have been set up over the years that were supposed to help Aboriginals and apparently none of those seem to have worked

Because they keep getting disbanded, or killed due to funding cuts. One of the leading No campaigners was even in one of them and said on the weekend that they achieved a lot during his time there. The basic concept of this Voice would be in the constitution so that it couldn't be totally disbanded with a change of government. It would survive temporary downscaling and could be restructured if the initial implementation was ineffective.