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if anyone is stupid enough to see this and think the voice means they will get kicked off beaches by aboriginals cause albanese gave them legal right to declare ownership of any lands they want...
they are deadset lost causes.
and to think the 'no' side keeps saying voting yes is 'divisive'
That's just it though, they know it's divisive, that's the point. They don't care if they're lying they just hope their lies spread to enough people.
Indigenous issues are pretty complex imo, so writing people off who are getting confused by the flood of BS seems like a good way of losing the referendum.
I agree we need to try, in my experience there's not a lot of fence sitters on this topic. people have made it about their "tribe" again and are happy to believe obvious lies because YES won't change their lives directly so they don't care
can someone give me a tldr of the voice? I don't know how to vote in the referendum because I don't understand it.
"Should aboriginals have a say in parliament?"
What that means is saved for future debate. Is deliberately vague so that parliament can decide how it's implemented and most importantly change it in the future without having another referendum.
The referendum is necessary to change the constitution, as that's the only process available to do so.
So all they're asking is whether the aboriginal voice should be heard when deciding on laws.
The no campaign are calling it racist because it's giving special treatment to one group. Of course, if most of them hadn't been slaughtered then they would not be such a minority in the first place.
ah. that helps. Thanks. What do you think the likely outcomes will be if the voice is decided upon?
There has been a bit shared on that. From memory it would be a body made up of a few aboriginal people from different areas, that would exist to consult with parliament on issues that concerned aboriginal people.
You vote yes because the people hoarding the power/money pie that is Australia are working hard to make it seem like you will be losing your share of that pie. In reality they possess all of the pie already and you don't have any; so voting to give a fraction of that pie to Indigenous Australians is of zero consequence to you.
I think Albo screwed up. He's called for a referendum on a vague agenda to win legacy votes, and it's biting back in the arse. He along with Linda Burney completely understood that the No campaign is within it's right to lie and lie on the pamphlet, and get scrutinised by critics who have an incentive for them to lose.
Hanson is just doing Hanson things. It doesn't matter if it is misleading, it doesn't matter. I can see the Yes campaign losing badly, and the proponents in their confirmation biased bubble will be left soul-searching.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has used a misleadingly edited viral video to claim a Yes vote in the Voice to Parliament referendum will lead to increasing conflict between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
The video shows a confrontation between an Indigenous mother and daughter and an elderly white woman in the coastal Queensland town of Poona.
Ms Hanson shared the video on her official Facebook page with the caption: "This is just a taste of what is to come if Australians don't stop [Prime Minister Anthony] Albanese's race-based Voice and its Treaty".
RMIT FactLab editor and misinformation researcher Esther Chan said the incident had no connection to the Voice referendum and claims about Australians having to surrender their land had already been debunked.
Many of the comments on Ms Hanson's post of the video contain vitriolic abuse directed towards the Indigenous women, including a call for genocide against First Nations Australians.
The edited video was first published by former One Nation candidate Brett Johannsen on August 4, but among those who shared it, Ms Hanson had the largest audience.
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