Voice to parliament referendum fails in defeat that Indigenous advocates will see as a blow to progress towards reconciliation

Australians have resoundingly rejected a proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in its constitution and establish a body to advise parliament on Indigenous issues.

Saturday’s voice to parliament referendum failed, with the defeat clear shortly after polls closed.

  • EnderMB@lemmy.worldEnglish
    352·
    1 year ago

    Afraid I have to agree on the UK front. It shocks me how so many people refer to the UK as a multicultural, tolerant nation.

    London, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, and Birmingham, perhaps? Outside of maybe 5-8 major cities, the amount of sexism, racism, and general hate for anyone poor or not of Anglo origin is unreal.

    • Silverseren@kbin.social
      162·
      1 year ago

      I remain weirded out that the racist response during Brexit was a bunch of harassment of Polish immigrants.

      Why Polish? I assume it has to be some internal thing that the rest of the world doesn’t have information about.

      • macrocephalic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        1 year ago

        The Polish people are like the Mexicans (previously Irish) are to the US. They’re foreigners who move to another country to do manual work cheaper than locals are willing to.

        In the words of one of my favourite comedians “They’re going to come over here and take all of the jobs we didn’t want to do!”