Australian "The Voice" referendum gets a solid no vote to allow further indigenous representations.

[sigma]

I don't think your protestations are all that great.

You responded to a poster who was talking about the trend where one side in these debates is characterised as being undesirable or 'lesser' than the other side by saying



So you were not at all a clear that you were saying both sides in this case had told lies because you were reposting to a poster who was talking about the trend where one side is depicted as being uniquely worse than the other!

You could have simply corrected me if that wasn't your intention in that post by clarifying that you meant neither side should have told lies.

But then filterering this thread by your user name shows what a low value added content bait poster you are from your previous 'contributions' to this thread.....

Whatever Trevor

 

[Vandle]

Good piece here by a bloke whose usual opinion I don't care for. He sums up the no vote very well without calling anyone thick or racist.

Australia turned on the Voice, but it wasn’t because of racism

For months Australians were told the referendum was about a simple issue. But there was nothing simple about it.

www.theage.com.au

Put differently, the Voice was a collectivist idea based on an assertion of group identity, trying to find a home in a broadly individualist Constitution. I think there were powerful arguments for doing so. But they were not easy or intuitive arguments to make. The Voice was always trying to thread this impossible needle. It had to present itself as modest, yet meaningful; to show it had no formal power, but would nonetheless make a practical difference. And it had to convince an electorate that it would achieve greater equality by treating citizens differently. In the end, that proved too complicated a task, the No vote too varied to assail, the referendum process too formidable a beast.