Australians divided over ‘Voice to Parliament’ for Indigenous people
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A landmark referendum backed by the government would give Indigenous people constitutional recognition and greater say on legislation and policy affecting them.

A landmark referendum backed by the government would give Indigenous people constitutional recognition and greater say on legislation and policy affecting them.

  •  liv   ( @liv@beehaw.org ) English
    2•1 year ago

    That’s… a bizarre take. Aboriginal Australians didn’t get the vote until the 1960s.

    The Voice is only to let Indigenous people have a mechanism for consultation since they are so heavily outnumbered that the Australian electoral system is essentially a “tyranny of the majority”.

    Aboriginal and Torres straits Australians have measurably worse outcomes in health, wealth, education, crime, life expectancy, etc. That is institutional racism.