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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry boss this is very heavily biased.

which they already have through inner dialogue between their mobs and local governments.

False. They do not have constitutionally supported advocacy in parliament.

How this constitutional change would look or be enacted was not known and very vague

False, the precise change to the constitution was readily available.

there was widespread animosity from First Nations people about it being another ‘white-man’s decision’

False, yes it's possible to find a First Nations person happy to have a whinge about their circumstances, but there was no wide spread animosity towards the voice amongst First Nations people.

It was never a vote about if you ‘like Aboriginal Australians or not’

Well, perhaps not, but it's definitely a vote about whether you're happy with the status quo.