Australian national broadcaster ABC has projected three states voted No, effectively defeating the referendum.

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    1 year ago

    You’ve actually explained one of the reasons many Indigenous people rejected this: it is just feedback that could simply be ignored by the Senate. That’s powerless, and we’ve seen from royal commissions into Aboriginal deaths in custody that the feedback does get ignored. Why accept such a bad deal, pretending it’s a victory or progress?

    The Black Peoples Union interview with ABC explains why they took the ‘no’ position.