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Ok now that #AWeeekOfSilence is over. I just want to say again, #Australia, seriously:

#referendum #referendum2023 #voicetoparliament

Michelle Grattan provides a valuable perspective - as usual. #australia #yes23 #referendum2023 #VoicetoParliament https://theconversation.com/grattan-on-friday-anthony-albanese-had-good-motives-but-his-referendum-has-done-much-harm-215996

"Inside #TheVoice campaigns: how muddled messages and voter confusion led to a crushing defeat"

#Referendum2023 #propaganda #misinformation #disinformation #racism #HateSpeech #auspol

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/18/inside-the-voice-campaigns-how-muddled-messages-and-voter-confusion-led-to-a-crushing-defeat?CMP=share_btn_tw

You know the way you think about people who voted No to #TheVoice #Referendum2023? You perhaps think that through their choices when exercising their freedoms, they are contributing to the ongoing marginalisation and suffering of a minority group, who already have things hard as it is.

Right?

That's exactly how the #Immunocompromised #Immunosuppressed community thinks about you when you exercise your freedoms to participate in group activities without a #Mask.

#Covid #AusPol #NotSoHighHorse

How the media failed Australia in the #Referendum2023 campaign for #TheVoice.

"The #ABC found itself unable to guide its listeners and viewers as to what was fact and what was fiction."

#journalism #misinformation #auspol

https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/how-the-media-failed-australia-in-the-referendum-campaign,17993

As a Australian from a migrant background it is hard to truly understand the hardships and blessings that First Nations people experience. I can empathise, but I can never truly sympathise (share the feeling). My identity is not connected to the land I come from.

A ‘First Nation’ person’s identity is inseparable from the land they come from. It’s not merely Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It’s people of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations.
The ‘Stolen Generation’ was literally an attempt of kidnapping and dispossessing Indigenous people from the lands they held deep-rooted connections with.
To this modern day, we (the Australian public representated by corporation and government) continue to attempt to demolish places of cultural importance or relocate populations, as if ‘that’s the solution’. The ‘Stolen Generation’ never ended - it simply stopped being official, and stopped targeting people directly.

And we wonder why there’s a massive difference in the referendum between the heavily ‘Yes’ voting Indigenous communities and the rest of the country?
I guess you take your identity for granted. Never had to forcibly renounce your identity and who you are. Never had to fight for your community, because you can just move on. Never felt the need for a constitutionally protected ‘voice’ to make sure your community is heard, because your individualism says ‘It’s not my business’ ‘It doesn’t affect me’.

Of course you take it for granted. First Nation people disproportionally have laws and policies enacted against them, unlike all other ethnic groups in Australia. The closest thing that Australians from migrant backgrounds have experienced is ‘Operation Fortitude’ in Melbourne, 2015. (There were many others policies that never got to implementation, thanks to the thankless work of civil rights and migrant/refugee right groups.)

Who will be the next minority group that is targeted, and claimed to be ‘causing division’ when the division was already there and the majority group simply don’t want to ‘close the gap’.
With the results of this referendum, the nationalists movement in Australia, and Foreign states, have confirmed that many Australian minority groups are willing to turn a blind eye on rights issues of other minority groups. So, don’t be surprised if you’re next.

#HumanRights
#FirstTheyCame #HistoryRepeats
#VoiceToParliament #Referendum2023

"Last week, [the AEC] was tagged in a photo of an absurd No campaign brochure which suggested the Voice would lead to financial restitution: "Genuine question @AusElectoralCom, are campaigns just allowed to lie on their material? Reparations?? Seriously!?"

But Ekin-Smyth's team could not really respond: "Our job is the process not the topic."

So, whose job is it?"

On Brexit:
"The parliament asked a salient question: Which security agency is in charge of protecting the very institutions of democracy upon which the Westminster system relies? After a protracted inquiry, the answer it produced was: "No one.""

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-17/voice-referendum-infected-disinformation-australians-lies/102981108

#auspol #Referendum2023 #Voice #Voice23

Elon Musk's bot army on #Twitter / #X is spreading #HateSpeech and #misinformation.

#TheVoice #Referendum2023 #MurdochRoyalCommission #auspol

Aragonès defiende un referéndum “a la escocesa” apoyándose en el informe académico sobre las vías para votar
https://eldiario.es/catalunya/aragones-defiende-referendum-escocesa-apoyandose-informe-academico-vias-votar_1_10600454.html

#Referendum2023 #catalunya

Peter Dutton walks back offer of second referendum after voice poll
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/16/peter-dutton-second-referendum-australian-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-poll

<sarcasm> I am so surprised that Dutton backflipped on his offer for a second Voice referendum. </sarcasm>

#AusPol #VoiceToParliament #Yes23 #VoteYes #Referendum2023 #IndigenousVoiceToParliament #FirstNations #Voice #VoteYesAustralia

#auspol #TheVoice #referendum2023 #AustraliaVotes2023

Picture of Mal Reynolds from Firefly with the quote "May have been on the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one".

#Elections in #Poland: turnout was at 72.9%, highest in any elections since World War II (possibly ever).

#wybory #wybory2023 #polska #sejm #senat #poll #Poland #politics #polityka #elections #polishelections #elections2023 #referendum #referendum2023

Referendum nie wyszło, PiS+Konfa nie mają większości, frekwencja 72,9%, normalnie bajka!

#wybory #wybory2023 #polska #sejm #senat #poll #Poland #politics #polityka #elections #polishelections #elections2023 #referendum #referendum2023

Comparison of exit #poll, late poll and finale results from 2019 parliamentary #elections in #Poland.
party – exit poll [late poll] (results)
#PiS – 43,6 [43,6] (43,59)
#KO – 27,4 [27,4] (27,4)
#Left – 11,9 [12,4] (12,56)
PSL – 9,6 [9,1] (8,55) – currently in #ThirdWay coalition
#Confederation – 6,4 [6,4] (6,81)

#politics #wybory #wybory2023 #elections2023 #Referendum #referendum2023 #international #Tusk #2023elections

As frustrated as I am by the result of the #referendum , I'll respect A Week of Silence, a somber voice of reason from Indigenous Australians.

#australia #referendum2023 #voicetoparliament #auspol #ivotedyes #AWeeekOfSilence

"We are calling A Week of Silence from tonight (Saturday 14th October) to grieve this outcome and reflect on its meaning and significance. We will not be commenting further on the result at this time."

https://alc.org.au/newsroom/media-releases/a-statement-from-indigenous-australians-who-supported-the-voice-referendum/

A STATEMENT FROM INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS WHO SUPPORTED THE VOICE REFERENDUM

A Week of Silence for the Voice

This statement comes from Rachel Perkins, respected Arrernte & Kalkadoon woman, and co-chair of Yes23.

https://www.instagram.com/rachelperkinsau/

https://www.yes23.com.au/

#AusPol #VoiceToParliament #Yes23 #VoteYes #Referendum2023 #IndigenousVoiceToParliament #FirstNations #Voice #VoteYesAustralia

A STATEMENT FROM INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS WHO SUPPORTED THE VOICE REFERENDUM

A Week of Silence for the Voice

Recognition in the constitution of the descendants of the original and continuing owners of Australia would have been a great advance for Australians. Alas, the majority have rejected it.

This is a bitter irony. 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. It was never in the gift of these newcomers to refuse recognition to the true owners of Australia. The referendum was a chance for newcomers to show a long-refused grace and gratitude and to acknowledge that the brutal dispossession of our people underwrote their every advantage in this country.

For more than six years, we have explained to our nation why the Voice was our great hope to achieve real change for our families and communities.

To the Australians who supported us in this vote - we thank you sincerely. You comprise many millions of Australians of love and goodwill. We know you wanted a better future for Australia, and to put the colonial past behind us by choosing belated recognition and justice.

We thank the Prime Minister and his government for having the conviction to take this referendum to the Australian people at our request. We thank him for his advocacy and all parliamentarians who did the same, including members of the Teals, Greens, Nationals and independents who stood by us. We pay particular respect to the Liberal parliamentarians who bravely advocated for the voice.

We also thank our fellow Australians from all sectors of the community, including multicultural, faith, professional, business, creative and sporting organisations. To the hundreds of thousands who took to the streets, knocked on doors and made over a million phone calls, thank you for your love and support.

Our deep chagrin at this result does not in any way diminish our pride and gratefulness for the stand they had the moral courage to take in this cause now lost. We know we have them by our side in the ongoing cause for justice and fairness in our own land.

Now is not the time to dissect the reasons for this tragic outcome. This will be done in the weeks, years and decades to come. Now is the time for silence, to mourn and deeply consider the consequence of this outcome.

Much will be asked about the role of racism and prejudice against Indigenous people in this result. The only thing we ask is that each and every Australian who voted in this election reflect hard on this question.

To our people we say: do not shed tears. This rejection was never for others to issue. The truth is that rejection was always ours to determine. The truth is that we offered this recognition and it has been refused. We now know where we stand in this our own country. Always was. Always will be.

We will not rest long. Pack up the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Fly our flags low. Talk not of recognition and reconciliation. Only of justice and the rights of our people in our own country. Things that no one else can gift us, but to which we are entitled by fact that this is the country of our birth and inheritance.

Re-gather our strength and resolve, and when we determine a new direction for justice and our rights, let us once again unite. Let us convene in due course to carefully consider our path forward.

We are calling A Week of Silence from tonight (Saturday 14th October) to grieve this outcome and reflect on its meaning and significance. We will not be commenting further on the result at this time.

We will be lowering our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags to half-mast for the week of silence to acknowledge this result. We ask others to do the same.

14 October 2023

Indigenous Australians backed #VoteYes for #TheVoice.

#Referendum2023 #auspol

Beyond No, here’s what we know about the Voice results
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-15/voice-results-explained-map/102978520

This article has some interesting data visualisations that show how people voted in the Referendum. These factors stand-out strongly:
- City vs rural
- Educational level
- Age
- Income

Curiously, the societal divisions on these maps are that same as last time there was a referendum, nearly a generation ago.

#AusPol #VoiceToParliament #VoteYes #Referendum2023 #IndigenousVoiceToParliament #FirstNations #Voice #VoteYesAustralia

#auspol Once again, the perfect is the enemy of the good. Usual conservative arguments. #referendum2023

Excellent nuanced analysis of the interim results of #Referendum2023 by the ABC’s Story Lab
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-15/voice-results-explained-map/102978520?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link

#Referendum2023

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